Glasnost for science
GLASNOST has arrived at the Council for Science and Technology after accusations of secrecy. Under new terms of reference, it will publish an annual report and all its advice. The number of...
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Good advice probe
scientific advice to the government is under the spotlight of the House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee. An inquiry announced this week will look at the uses and quality of advice from...
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Overseas shortfall
Universities stand to lose more than Pounds 130 million in fee income next academic year following the Asian markets crisis, a poll of institutions by Hobsons Publishing has revealed. Some 10 per...
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Road to ruin
(Photograph) - A student protester throws back a cannister of teargas which has just been thrown at him by Kenyan police during riots in Nairobi. The battles between the students, protesting against...
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Partnership prizes
Imperial College's chemistry department and the centre for communication systems research at Surrey University have each pocketed Pounds 35,000 to improve infrastructure. They beat other university...
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Gifted students benefit from bursaries for fees
ABERDEEN University this week became the latest Scottish university to announce a bursary scheme to pay tuition fees for selected entrants, writes Olga Wojtas. Thirty bursaries will be awarded to...
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Students step up Abacha protest
Nigerian students opposed to the military regime of General Sani Abacha have vowed to continue their protests until power is handed to a democratically elected civilian government. Lagos was the...
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Keep Europeans welcome
The House of Lords has been taking evidence on European student exchange programmes. Discussion has focused on the imbalance between the number of European Union students coming to Britain and the...
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The market is not the only measure
Scientific enterprise has transformed life across the world in recent decades and is now doing so again. Research provides the knowledge base for information technology, biotechnology and the other...
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Out of Nabokov and into nappies
Nick Chapman has been offered a job in his chosen career and he hasn't even finished his degree. This supplement is designed to give others the same opportunity and to help universities identify the...
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A generation clocks on
Under the impact of a keen government, financial hardship and the Dearing inquiry, students are being encouraged into work while still at university.But does it benefit them or their employers? Below...
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The Pounds 800 experience
The Shell Technology Enterprise Programme places undergraduates in small and medium-sized companies for eight weeks during the summer vacation. Last summer Donald Malcolm, managing director of...
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On-campus 'work' a hit at Leeds
Providing work experience for all undergraduates in line with the Dearing recommendations would mean an estimated five-fold increase in the number of placements available - an unrealistic prospect....
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A shift in Europe's border conflicts
Academia is putting the post-communist states on its map. Michael Waller reports RENEWED tension in Kosovo and the banning of the Welfare Party in Turkey cannot but push the Islamic question higher...
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The Scottish art gallery experience
The academic's view: Edinburgh University history of art department marries the academic to the vocational in a scheme offered since 1992. History of art students in their penultimate year have the...