For the money minded
Nobody who is any good lectures full time in information technology, computer studies, accountancy or law when they can make four times as much in commerce, Dudley South MP Ian Pearson, a former...
Search
-
-
In the news
As a second American mission in three months looks to have bitten the Mars dust, Colin Pillinger, leader of the planned European mission to Mars, must feel torn. The apparent failure of Mars Polar...
-
On the move
Arthur Naylor, principal of St Mary's, Strawberry Hill, has been appointed chairman of the Council of Church and Associated Colleges. He will succeed John Rea, principal of the college of St Mark and...
-
Glittering prizes
Brian Groombridge, professor emeritus of adult education at the University of London, has been awarded the Order of the Knight, 1st Class of the Order of the Finnish White Rose, for services to...
-
Eyewitness
Since the end of the second world war, Denmark has portrayed itself as a small kingdom that stood up to the Germans. But a new generation of historians is shedding light on Denmark's less than...
-
Want to join the EU queue?
East is slowly meeting West in Europe. Nick Holdsworth looks at the implications of integration In the old medieval market town of Brno in southeast Moravia, free buses ferry people to a newly opened...
-
Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Malaysian deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has announced the formation of a national student consultative council. The council will act as a forum for university students to air...
-
Edelgard Bulmahn
German education minister Edelgard Bulmahn has called for a European league table of universities to be established during talks with French education minister Claude Allegre. A Franco-German working...
-
Aids blight spreads to Kenyan students
NAIROBI. Aids researchers in Kenya say university students are among the high-risk groups, which include teenage girls, long-distance truck drivers, commercial sex workers, the military and the...
-
Poll reveals unsafe sex
GABORONE. Student organisations, staff and the administration at the University of Botswana have moved to confront the scourge of HIV/Aids, which has cut life expectancy in the sparsely populated...
-
Degrees prove job passport
MELBOURNE. Australian graduates are finding it easier to get jobs and their starting salaries have risen, according to the Graduate Careers Council's latest report. A survey of more than 95,000...
-
Folklorist wrestles with masses
MONTREAL. Gerald Pocius has not performed a pile driver nor had to hit any opponents across the head with a metal chair to prove that the study of professional wrestling can hold currency in academic...
-
Fall in birth rate hits prep schools
TOKYO. A fall in the number of applications for places at universities in Japan is forcing the closure of exam preparatory schools, which have made millions from the intense competition for places....
-
Hungarians fight on for ethnic Transylvanian university
Max Van der Stoel, commissioner on national minorities at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, is to recommend that the European Commission aid Romania's multicultural Babes-...
-
Head of philosophy led protest
Gillian Sandford reports from Belgrade on the suppression of democracy Few professors can command as much respect from staff and students as Marija Bogdanovic, who resigned as dean of the faculty of...