Anti-exclusion plans are too narrow
The government's plans to end social exclusion may not work, according to the president of the Royal Economic Society. The key thrust of the government's Social Exclusion Unit is the welfare-to-work...
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Fear of poverty has little to do with money
The middle classes of "Middle England" fear poverty more than the working classes, according to research at the University of Luton. "Very few people seem to know how poor or how rich they actually...
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Grocery shoppers do shop around
SUPERMARKETS may have to look again at customer loyalty as research reveals a less than faithful side to shoppers. Robert East, of Kingston University's marketing department, surveyed shoppers who...
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Backpackers are good-value tourists
Governments in less developed countries often ignore the impact of backpackers on their economies, says Mark Hampton, a development economist at the University of Portsmouth. Dr Hampton is...
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Bangor acclaimed for beach clean-up
Ocean scientists at the University of Wales, Bangor have devised a natural, inexpensive means of cleaning oil-polluted beaches. The biodiesel solvent is more effective and less toxic than current...
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Stitch in time
(Photograph) - Alexandra Clarke of the Textile Conservation Centre in Hampton Court Palace examines a 15th-century tapestry. The centre will join forces with the University of Southampton in August...
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Screen saver
New chairman Tom Husband has suggested that the academic networking company, Ukerna, could offer commercial services including videoconferencing, breaking its financial dependence on the Joint...
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Maastricht criteria may be too tight
The target figures chosen for fiscal convergence under the Maastricht Treaty have no basis in economic reality and may be damagingly restrictive, says an article in the latest Cambridge Journal of...
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Plants promise multiple sclerosis treatment
Refined fatty acids from some plants and fungi may provide a treatment for multiple sclerosis, according to preliminary findings at Greenwich University. Researchers at the university and at St...
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Private colleges alerted
The Malaysian education ministry has warned private colleges that they face legal action if they mislead students about the foreign status of their degrees. Private colleges have mistakenly taken as...
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Japan to end bias at the Bar
Japan's most difficult exam is the bar exam. Only 746 candidates out of ,112 aspiring barristers, prosecutors and judges passed this year and, according to critics, most of them were males and from...
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Law school's mystery flit
Nigeria's leading law school has been unexpectedly relocated 600 kilometres from the capital Lagos, the economic and financial centre of West Africa, to a small town called Bwari near Abuja. Parents...
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Tuition fee debts soar in South Africa
THOUSANDS of poor students, many of whom have performed satisfactorily academically, face exclusion as cash-strapped universities and technikons crack down on outstanding tuition fees in South Africa...
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Cuts top staff hit-list
ORGANISATIONS representing 700,000 university and college staff around the world have expressed alarm at the way governments are cutting higher education spending. Delegates at an Education...
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Death fuels Israeli fears
THE DEATH of Zvulun Hammer, Israel's education minister, has re-opened political-religious speculation about the future of the higher education system. The 62-year-old leader of the right-wing...