The science Lords
Calls this week from the House of Lords select committee on science and technology for a culture change in science will be greeted better by government than other recent policy comments from...
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On the move
Richard Trainor, senior vice-principal and professor of social history at the University of Glasgow, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Greenwich from September. He will replace...
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Glittering prizes
Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans, will be awarded an honorary doctorate of arts by the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside in July. Joe Biddlestone, professor of chemical engineering and...
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Czech visa scramble as rules change
A demanding schedule of legal reforms designed to prepare former Warsaw Pact countries for European Union membership is fuelling political and bureaucratic friction in states on the "fast track" to...
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Dragon finds use for Cobra
China is courting India, seeing it as the key to high-tech English-speaking western markets, writes Wang Gungwu Improved diplomatic relations between India and China will not have dramatic effects on...
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Beijing
Chinese leaders including president Jiang Zemin and premier Zhu Rongji say targets to enable 15 per cent of school-leavers to attend universities by 2010 and to increase higher education enrolment by...
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Lome
Demonstrators set alight the main administrative block of the state university in the capital city of Togo. A clash occurred when security forces were requested by the university authorities to...
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Madrid
More than 6,000 Spanish students marched through Madrid last week in protest against a report they claim will propose privatisation of higher education. The demonstration, organised by 30 left-wing...
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Australia pledges aid to East Timorese
MELBOURNE Thousands of students from the University of East Timor are still without accommodation, equipment, teachers or money to keep themselves. Almost six months after Indonesia finally accepted...
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Boost for Scottish enterprise
Five Scottish universities have this week launched a Pounds 4 million venture to promote the entrepreneurial spirit in higher education and boost the commercialisation of Scottish inventiveness....
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Big help for small businesses
South-eastern electronics and engineering companies now have access to industrial research and development facilities thanks to a new centre at Sussex University. The Pounds 4 million South East...
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'Guru of web usability' speaks
The successful development of the internet as a device for communication will only happen when education unpicks the bad design habits learned over the past five years, according to usability expert...
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Distance learning examined close up
A Glasgow University team aims to develop "data mining" techniques to assess whether huge investments in distance learning are paying off, writes Olga Wojtas. Glasgow argues that while millions of...
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Fill the knowledge gap and rebuild trust in science
Starting small in 1986, the public understanding of science has become big business. National Science Week - which starts today - is a timely point for the House of Lords to think what happens next....
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Government policies turn off target students
Warning bells should be ringing in ministerial ears this week as signs of frustration with the government's widening participation policy emerged in higher education ("Swapping the ghetto for the...