Putting children at centre of clubs
The government's Pounds 300 million drive to expand after-school child care could alienate children because the policy focuses on parents, researchers have warned. Researchers at Brunel University's...
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Kids as active agents
THE PLACE of children in late 20th-century society seems dangerously confused. We are told to treat them as individuals capable of autonomous action, but at the same time there are compelling...
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Robin Hood reversed
CORRUPTION in developing countries is under the scrutiny of a Staffordshire University political researcher who hopes to help aid agencies and governments fight the menace. Stephen Riley is examining...
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Dementia decisions
THE extent to which people with learning difficulties who suffer from dementia can make decisions about their lives is the subject of a Stirling University study. Researchers will interview 20 people...
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House owner inequity
YOUNG people who move to London in the search for upward mobility significantly reduce their prospects of becoming home owners, according to research for the Economic and Social Research Council....
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Cartilage scrutinised
ELECTRON microscope examination of cartilage could hold the key to understanding arthritis, say researchers at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. The university's Institute of Biological Sciences...
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Times turntables
GETTING his multiplication tables wrong was bad enough for schools minister Stephen Byers, but it can put some children off maths for life. Maths teacher Wendy Fortescue-Hubbard, of the University of...
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Archive opens for Inquisition
The archive of the Catholic Church's Inquisition, covering thousands of heresy and witchcraft trials from 1542 to 1903, has been opened officially to researchers. For years, only a handful of people...
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Jesuits' Pounds 2m book sale
France's Jesuit community is faced with tough decisions over the future of the largest private theology library in France. The Jesuits can no longer provide the staff and money to keep the 450,000...
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Baby brokers take stock
German students used to revel in their reputation as Marxists and militants. A growing number, however, are more interested in the Dax and the Dow Jones than in demonstrations. University investment...
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Romanian delay could backfire
Romania's reluctance to establish a Hungarian-language university in Transylvania could bring down the government, Romania's minister for ethnic minorities, Gyoergy Tokay, has warned. The country's...
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Labor Party backs re-expansion of universities in Oz
AUSTRALIAN education unions have swung behind the opposition Labor Party, following a decision by Labor's national conference last week to boost spending on universities, technical colleges and...
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Fees policy goes under
Do we really have nothing to fear in following the Australian tuition fee example? Your report (Thes, January 23) about Australia's need for more full fee-paying students as opposed to those with...
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Don's diary
Sunday. Telephone rings - 9.15am, with 9.30am church service ten minutes' drive away. And this is the day of peace and rest? Crackle crackle crackle. "Hello. It's John here. Who? Oh, hello. What? Yes...
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Student safety fears grow
TWO American colleges have cancelled study programmes abroad and others are predicting increased scrutiny after 13 students were robbed at gunpoint and five of them raped in Guatemala. The students,...