Dumpling diet clue to poverty
Students in Ekaterinburg are the poorest in Russia, a survey by financial magazine Kommersant Dengi claims. Based on a survey of monthly student incomes and expenditure on a range of necessities -...
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Pretoria crackdown on university financial bungling
Six former all-black universities in South Africa are under government investigation in an effort to "stabilise" their finances and administration, as well as restore confidence. The audits were...
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'Melancholy' v-c faces pay strife
As Australian academics prepare for industrial action over a 19 per cent pay claim, the federal government ruled out extra cash for universities to cover the cost. Education minister David Kemp told...
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Survival on cold comfort campus
One of the most important subjects Amy Stiffler says she has learnt as a student at Bemidji State University was not from a book or a lecturer. It was how to survive severe cold. When Ms Stiffler's...
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Forest sale fires activists
Kenya's high court has temporarily stopped the University of Nairobi from disciplining 68 students who joined demonstrations against the allocation of a Nairobi forest for real estate development to...
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Reviews
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE LAW AND PRACTICE. By Michael Chissick and Alistair Kelman. Sweet and Maxwell, pp230 Pounds 125.00, ISBN 0 7520 0650. The internet may be a foreign country, but British laws still...
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Power elites regroup to defuse net threat
Hopes that the internet will transform political life by upsetting existing power structures will be disappointed, a session at last week's Political Studies Association conference in Nottingham was...
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Russian connection
Russian students and academics will get easier internet access under an education ministry scheme to establish internet centres, deputy education minister Alexander Kondakov has announced. Speaking...
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Pounds 1m for training
Bolton Institute has ordered Sun Microsystems servers and storage from Esteem Computers, in order to expand its capacity to deliver training across the internet. The order is part of a Pounds 1...
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Hypertextile
The Iris women's photography project at Staffordshire University has won top prize in the internet section at Transmediale 99, the international media arts festival in Berlin. "The Future Looms" is...
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Hands on
The 18-day Creativity and Consumption event, run by the media arts department at the University of Luton, is giving local people a chance to try out the creative possibilities of new media technology...
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Help to wage war on the 'simplifiers' of Kosovo
Academics must provide a platform for Serbians brave enough to speak out, says Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers War constitutes a challenge to academia. It leads to reflections on its moral stance and...
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Complaining voices must be heard
Renewed expansion of higher education will mean more students - and more aggrieved students. So it is disappointing that almost two years after the report of the Dearing inquiry, its recommendation...
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Few female inroads
So Peterhouse, long regarded as the most reactionary of Cambridge colleges, has experienced a lightning conversion to the cause of equal opportunities ("The fellows pushing salad revolution", THES,...
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Core concerns
Many thanks to Martin Haywood, chairman of the Association for University and Industry Liaison Officers, for offering guidance to the understandably confused citizens of higher education regarding...