MS researchers call for volunteers
Medical scientists at Dundee University trying to solve one of the riddles of the disease are asking for the help of multiple sclerosis sufferers. They want MS patients who have suffered a relapse in...
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A coffee and the secret of your success, please
A team of researchers from four United Kingdom universities has landed the plum job of eating, drinking and sleeping for their country in a bid to learn the secrets of the worldwide hospitality trade...
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Early life affects mental health
Next Wednesday is European Brain Day. The THES gets cerebral A clear link exists between early life events and brain development, according to neuroscientists at Nottingham University. The...
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Giotto frescoes warning ignored
A prominent United States art historian was not allowed to speak at a conference on recently restored Giotto frescoes after he warned that the conservation work could prove damaging. James Beck of...
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Lecturers beaten at Kosovo demo
THIS WEEK's violence in Kosovo has dashed hopes of a solution to the Albanian language row that has split university education in the province and threatened reconciliation between opposing student...
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Property law to be foundation
RADICAL legal reforms launched by the governor of one of Russia's most progressive regions are taking shape with the help of university experts. The Saratov reforms, which include a controversial law...
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Open University's business school launches MBA programme in Russia
The Open University's business school has launched its MBA programme in Russia through a collaboration with LINK, a training organisation set up six years ago by senior academics from the...
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Belorus historian files complaint to police
Belorussian historian Uladzimir Yukho, of the institute of history in Minsk, has filed a complaint against the city's police for mistreatment. He was arrested late last month by riot police when he...
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Budget offers scholars a bounty
A BILLION-DOLLAR scholarship fund was the centre-point of a good-news budget from Canada's federal government last month. Finance minister Paul Martin's budget included a rise in research funding,...
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California looks at entry quotas
THE UNIVERSITY of California is considering breaking with traditional undergraduate admissions and automatically accepting the top 4 per cent of students from every school in the state. The plan...
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Foreign workers in student visa scam
THOUSANDS of foreign students are using their visas as an illegal means of entering Australia. The immigration department has tracked down more than 10,000 who have overstayed their visas in the past...
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Warrior fights for freer speech
Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union and professor of law at New York Law School, is a defender of free speech. Absolutely and uncompromisingly. "I defend hate speech even...
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When demands are a part of education
Africa's francophone campuses need rescuing if learning is to go on. Thirty years ago most students from francophone Africa studied in France. Since the 1970s many countries in the region have set up...
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Surviving campus conflict
Lome, capital of Togo, was thrown into confusion over the rumour that a student union president had died when armed police invaded the university campus earlier this month, writes Tunde Fatunde from...
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A balance in electronic copyright law
Copyright law is a compromise, and compromises do not satisfy everyone. In the case of copyright law, the compromise probably does not satisfy anyone. Publishers are concerned to get a good return on...