Yiddish row simmers
A LEADING Jewish scholar, who dropped claims of racist abuse from his former employers at an industrial tribunal this week, says he is still considering legal action against them. Dovid Katz...
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Geography out of favour
Recruitment to undergraduate geography degrees has fallen by over 10 per cent with all the signs suggesting it could get worse. The Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers'...
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Clashes over Serbian rule
Ethnic Albanian students and academics in Kosovo last week resumed demonstrations to "reclaim" education buildings for teaching in their own language. According to Serbia's interior ministry, the...
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Willetts decides tactics on bill
The last thing the Tories need to produce is more detailed policy documents, shadow higher education spokesman David Willetts acknowledges with irony since he made his political reputation in the...
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`Be radical' is Lib-Dem cry
Phil Willis, Liberal Democrat spokesman on further and higher education argues that the problem with British higher education is that development was incremental. "Dearing assumed that he was...
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Bell change for Bradford
At first sight Colin Bell, the next vice chancellor of Bradford University, seems an unlikely choice. Professor Bell, who will succeed David Johns next August, is a social scientist and senior vice...
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Lottery strings bind museums
CASH-STRAPPED university museums and galleries could get Pounds 3 million from a funding council to help them bid for lottery funds. But museum heads fear that few, if any, institutions will benefit...
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Charities grow short of helpers
The number of charity shops has expanded dramatically over the past 15 years, with Oxfam alone now equivalent in size to the Dixons electrical chain. But this expansion, and increasing competition...
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Ageism alive and well into 2000
Sexism and racism may be well off limits in the politically correct 1990s, but ageism remains endemic to western society, according to researchers from the University of Northumbria. Geography...
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Stingrays shock
STINGRAYS are helping Cov-entry University researchers make a breakthrough in sensor technology for use in the food industry and in medical testing. The ocean stingray generates an electric charge...
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Body backlash
A growing gap between how medical scientists and the average person view the human body could threaten research if ignored, two law professors in the United States have warned. Lori Andrews of...
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Mental help at hand
TUTORS as well as trained university counsellors receive calls for help from mentally ill students and need the skills to cope, according to a survey. Researchers at Hull University's School of...
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Farming by satellite
An Edinburgh University researcher has won backing from Brussels to assess the risks to farmers in countries around the Mediterranean from flood, drought and frost using satellite remote sensing data...
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Traffic planners 'forget people'
Traffic planners must find ways of canvassing the views of people unable or unwilling to move about freely, a Napier University researcher has urged. Julian Hine, of Napier's transport research...
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Clan mentality rules in Italian universities
ITALY'S tireless education minister, Luigi Berlinguer, is seeking to introduce widespread reforms into the country's university system. He has an unenviable task, according to Indro Montanelli, 88,...