UfIs in the sky
The University for Industry, recently relaunched for the general public as learndirect, has been given another new name by disgruntled college principals. Fed up with confusion over the lifelong...
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The prophet speaks
The truth is out there. Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, famous for having a silicon chip transponder surgically implanted in his left arm, is to give this year's...
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In the news
'She has a CV that would make the fattest of fat-cat bosses shudder' Rita Donaghy kick-started the TUC annual congress this week with an attack on the sexism that hampers women who are beating a path...
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Missing papers mar solidarity's celebrations
June 1979: Pope John Paul II visits Poland, to acclamation by huge crowds. July 1980: Increases in food prices trigger a wave of strikes throughout Poland, culminating in August in the strike at the...
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Banjul
The University of the Gambia is due to open this autumn with 30 full-time and 20 part-time staff, mostly from outside the country. It expects to have an initial 200 undergraduates on degree...
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An idea to kick around
During their annual conference this week - hosted by Durham University - vice-chancellors enjoyed dinner at one of the most unusual conference dinner venues of recent years - Middlesbrough Football...
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On the move
Stephen Tomlinson, professor of medicine at University of Manchester Medical School, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff. Alan Langlands,...
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Glittering prizes
De Montfort University has awarded an honorary master of arts degree to Rose Hill, British Marathon record-holder and winner of silver medals in the Barcelona Paralympics and Berlin Marathon. The...
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Eyewitness
Sunday is the 20th anniversary of the founding of Poland's Solidarity Trade Union, which led, by domino effect, to the end of one-party rule, not just in Poland, but throughout the Eastern Bloc. For...
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Turning a drop into a ripple
Will the shift in British third world aid to 'in-country' training be a more effective strategy? asks Sheila Vaughan It has taken Britain about 40 years to realise that training aid for developing...
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Cleveland
Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore has launched a plan to widen college access by making tuition tax-deductible, giving tax credits and deductions for college saving, keeping down interest...
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Mostar
The senate of Mostar University has dismissed the president of the university, Marko Tadic. United States ambassador to Bosnia, Thomas Miller, said attacks on the president, which have been...
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Milosevic sends in the thugs
Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, not content with stripping universities of their autonomy, has resorted to new, violent methods of dealing with his critics in academia. A protest at Belgrade...
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Students defiant after police raid Belgrade HQ
The Yugoslav student-based resistance movement Otpor staged a defiant but symbolic gesture after a police raid last week on its Belgrade headquarters, writes Gillian Sandford from Belgrade. Anti-...
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Palestinian rape victims turn to novel champion
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's apartment is the first stop for many Palestinian women on their way to pray at the nearby Dome of the Rock Mosque in the old city of Jerusalem. Many of them are victims of...