Baby brokers take stock
German students used to revel in their reputation as Marxists and militants. A growing number, however, are more interested in the Dax and the Dow Jones than in demonstrations. University investment...
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Romanian delay could backfire
Romania's reluctance to establish a Hungarian-language university in Transylvania could bring down the government, Romania's minister for ethnic minorities, Gyoergy Tokay, has warned. The country's...
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Labor Party backs re-expansion of universities in Oz
AUSTRALIAN education unions have swung behind the opposition Labor Party, following a decision by Labor's national conference last week to boost spending on universities, technical colleges and...
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Fees policy goes under
Do we really have nothing to fear in following the ߣߣÊÓƵn tuition fee example? Your report (Thes, January 23) about ߣߣÊÓƵ's need for more full fee-paying students as opposed to those with...
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Don's diary
Sunday. Telephone rings - 9.15am, with 9.30am church service ten minutes' drive away. And this is the day of peace and rest? Crackle crackle crackle. "Hello. It's John here. Who? Oh, hello. What? Yes...
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Student safety fears grow
TWO American colleges have cancelled study programmes abroad and others are predicting increased scrutiny after 13 students were robbed at gunpoint and five of them raped in Guatemala. The students,...
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Ontario allows heads to set fees
Ontario's education ministry has freed universities to raise tuition fees for graduate and professional programmes by whatever the market will bear. But, although the province's university presidents...
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Reveal costs, colleges urged
A NATIONAL commission on rising college costs in the United States has warned colleges to put their own houses in order or risk having outsiders do it for them. Most academic institutions have...
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Lecturers' leader arrested
AN OFFICIAL of the banned university lecturers' union at the University of Benin in northern Nigeria has been detained by armed police and taken to an undisclosed destination. Frank Dimowo, branch...
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Nigeria fears avian flu epidemic
SCIENTISTS fear the spread of avian flu in Nigeria after cases were diagnosed by three university-based doctors, Tunde Fatunde writes. This month 1.2 million birds contaminated by the avian flu were...
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American president for Beirut
THE FIRST American president of the American University of Beirut to be based on campus since his predecessor Malcolm Kerr was killed in 1984 takes up his post this month. John Waterbury, who began...
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Intimations of immortality
The "spontaneous reaction" to new developments in cloning technology described by Hilary Putnam in his Amnesty lecture (page 18) this week says much about human hopes and fears. The possibility of...
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The final smokescreen
THE WHITE paper on freedom of information, Your Rights to Know, published last month, was warmly welcomed, and rightly so. It seeks, in the prime minister's words, to break down "the traditional...
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Oxford lags behind old rival
The North Report on Oxford University was finally published this week. So long awaited, it could hardly help being an anticlimax. It scarcely, for example, discusses the all-important matter of the...
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Transparency gives lead in international market
Two groups of senior international educationists were in Britain last week to learn about reform and quality assurance. Rebecca Walton reports. THE UNITED KINGDOM is seen worldwide as a natural...