Tree frog's opiate better than morphine
A SOUTH American tree frog may hold the key to a new form of painkiller 200 times more powerful than morphine, but without the side effects, researchers at Leicester University have said. John...
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Britons are 'slaves to the steering wheel'
BRITONS are becoming "slaves to the steering wheel" and the Government's measures to cut car dependency are "pitiable" according to research from the Open University. The average household's weekly...
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Women of muscular substance
The female form, gambling, prostitutionand body piercing were among the themes explored at the British Sociological Association at York last week WHY do women weight-train to change their bodies from...
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Britain rallies to the Russian foreign expansion cause
Russian universities are drawing on British experience to improve their recruitment of overseas students and increase sources of outside funding. They want to learn from British institutions how to...
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Italians shun college scene
Italy's universities are witnessing the sharpest drop ever in first-year enrolments. New students for the 1996/97 academic year fell by 3 per cent compared with 1995/96, when, for the first time...
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French researchers get business boost
A draft law that is about to go before the French parliament will allow public sector researchers to start up their own companies, hold stock or become consultants in firms using their research...
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Romania eases way for second language
Romania is on the verge of back-tracking on a legal requirement which made Romanian the mandatory language of instruction for all students at universities and all other levels of education,...
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Delegation banned from Cuban trip
An American delegation to an academic conference in Havana was prevented from travelling to Cuba by the United States government. The seven-member delegation planned to attend the international...
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Lecturers protest over unpaid salary arrears
Lecturers at the University of Ibadan are threatening to withhold examination marks in a dispute over salaries they claim are owed after the end of last year's seven-month strike. And Omoniye Adewoye...
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Gambia gets first university
The Gambia should have its first university this autumn thanks in part to a small and internationally unknown university on the east coast of Canada. The university will be built on to three existing...
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Is he arking up the wrong tree?
THEHEAD of earth sciences at Melbourne University is putting his professional reputation and possibly his financial future at risk by suing a creationist. Geology professor Ian Plimer has taken to...
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Work log reveals slackers myth
A SURVEY at a Canadian university shows that full-time professors work an average of 49 hours a week. The finding, according to the 12-member committee which coordinated the study, counters "the...
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Land of the rising daughter
JAPAN has appointed its first female president of a national university. Masako Niwa becomes president of Nara Women's University at Nara in west Japan, after 35 years working as a researcher,...
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Race bias may deter students
FOR THE first time this year, fee-paying students from Singapore are expected to outnumber those from Malaysia in ߣߣÊÓƵ's universities. Bad publicity in the Malaysian media last year over a...
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State grip too tight for comfort
FROM THE hothouse universities of the tiger economies of the Far East to Africa's riot-torn and constantly closed campuses, there is a wealth of anecdotal evidence to suggest growing state...