Rainbow's quest for master brew
FEW scientists have achieved so much in the irrepressible quest for the ultimate pint of beer than the late, great brewer Cyril Rainbow. Today, Rainbow's quest - along with his very name - lives on...
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Gucci-clad and grandiose
THE CURRENT batch of prospective business leaders networking the grandiose Georgian campus of the European Business School in the heart of London's Regent's Park have an air of collective confidence...
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A dedicated arbiter of credit
Harold Silver of the Open University explains how its validation service works. Little understood and little reported, an alternative and largely private higher education sector is mushrooming. One...
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Waiting for Sir Ron and... the second coming of Christ
IN DEEPEST Berkshire, a small college of Seventh Day Adventists is preparing for the second coming of Christ. Newbold College, set in 80 acres near the village of Binfield and catering for some 350...
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Partners in a burgeoning club
NEARLY 200,000 students, over half of them undergraduates, benefit from partnership arrangements between universities and other institutions. Many of these students are in further education, but a...
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Campus asbestos row goes to court
A fierce row over asbestos risk assessment and academic responsibility has broken out between Paris's Jussieu University campus anti-asbestos committee and members of the Academy of Medicine and the...
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Rectors postpone revolution
UNIVERSITY rectors and government officials have unexpectedly failed to agree on a blueprint for changes in Spain's complex university entrance system. A meeting of the university council in...
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Football party kicks into gear
Footballing philosophy is breathing new life into the ailing world of student politics in Germany, where Marx and Lenin once topped the league. The St Pauli Party is standing in student elections at...
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Checkpoint Venice for tourists
A TOURIST checkpoint for entry to Venice is among suggestions from the city's Ca' Foscari University for use during the 2000 Jubilee and Holy Year celebrations. Left-wing mayor Massimo Cacciari, who...
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Malaysia's future blueprint
A blueprint will be formulated soon on increasing student intake to Malaysia's institutions of higher learning, and determining which programmes are to receive priority for supporting national...
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New donors back commonwealth of learning
The Commonwealth of Learning has endured a hand-to-mouth existence since it was established by Commonwealth leaders nine years ago to use distance learning techniques to create and widen access to...
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Communist parties see yellow
India's only communist stronghold among universities - the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi - has fallen to the right-wing and pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party in the elections to its...
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South Africa jobs fear
South African universities and technikons are braced for a serious funding squeeze, which they say could force staff redundancies and spark widespread student unrest next year. The cabinet should...
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US loses pulling power
EXPRESSIONS of alarm over the static numbers of foreigners choosing to study in the United States have fallen on deaf government ears. There appears to be little appetite for challenging the...
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Roads scholars row for recruitment
A light breeze teases the college flags and scatters an early morning mist, exposing rowers practicing their strokes offshore. A vision of Oxford in Kentucky? That is the objective of one public...