Virtual reality provides clues to clumsiness
CLUMSINESS in children is not always the result of an awkward or careless nature; often it is a symptom of a condition affecting about one in 20 pupils at primary school. Developmental Co-ordination...
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Rome's heirs neglect Latin
Academics in Italy have launched a campaign to defend what little Latin and Greek is still taught in Italian schools, and possibly to reintroduce compulsory Latin for children aged ten to 14. The...
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La Sapienza University
(Photograph) - Police used tear gas to separate rival student factions who occupied faculties of Rome's La Sapienza University in two weeks of pre-Christmas clashes between left-wing and right-wing...
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Bequest bottled
A Paris university plagued by a long-running asbestos problem on its Jussieu campus has received some consolation - the first vintage of a wine it inherited from a former researcher has arrived....
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Students say it with loo rolls
Serbian academics have spoken out in support of students who have staged more than six weeks of protests against the annulment of local government elections in which opposition parties claimed...
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Freedom exactsa price
A world without official rankings leaves ߣߣÊÓƵn universities more autonomous but less sure of their cash flow as they compete for students and funding, reports Geoff Maslen from Melbourne....
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Japanese parents foot fees bill
A national survey of education expenses shows that the average total cost of enrolment and tuition for a four-year course at a Japanese university is more than Pounds 15,000. Accommodation, travel...
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Houses to keep wolves at bay
Some land-rich Canadian universities are looking to residential development to help solve their funding difficulties. One Ontario university has set up a retirement community adjacent to its campus....
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English signposts successes on a divided island
THE signposts pointing to the University of Cyprus from the Nicosia Hilton are in English, but a foreign visitor is advised to brush up on the Greek alphabet because on campus it is all Greek....
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Campus comrades in arms
INDEPENDENT universities are thriving in St Petersburg, the intellectual capital of Russia and Europe's fourth largest city. Peter the Great's grand classical city of canals and waterways has a...
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Value test for health studies
DECISIONS on whether to fund research into medical technologies may in the future be made by looking at the long-term cost implications of the possible different outcomes of the research. The Centre...
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Dodging the FE shrapnel
These days, when politicians discuss learning they mentally drop the L. In the run-up to a bitter general election battle no one can afford to forget about money for a moment. For further education...
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Survey reveals crisis fears
BRITISH academics think that higher education is in deep financial and academic trouble; but they cannot agree on a solution. A survey of academic staff from junior researchers to vice chancellors,...
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Scottish ratings rise
NINE out of 12 discipline groupings in Scotland have improved their research ratings, according to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. A SHEFC summary, using weighted-average ratings to...
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Informers and aliens in our midst
"We took no notice of these pedestrians. We didn't know if they felt sorry for us or if they were laughing at us. But doubtless we no longer existed for them, because they wished us not to exist, so...