Students help to help themselves
Hardship is changing the nature of student voluntary work. It is not making students less altruistic but it is making them more serious about gaining recognition for their efforts. And the recipients...
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How Cornwall creamed off tourism
Images of the "Cornish Riviera" which are still popular today stem from a railway advertising campaign of almost a century ago, according to Staffordshire University geography lecturer Chris Thomas....
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Fairer sex rules out physical geography
Are field trips too arduous for women? Olga Wojtas reports from the Royal Geographical Society in Exeter. Female students may be put off physical geography because they consider themselves too unfit...
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Field trips in danger
There is an urgent need for research into the value of fieldwork in order to defend it against continuing budget cuts, a reader in biogeography has warned. Martin Kent of Plymouth University said...
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A woman's place is on the street
Are field trips too arduous for women? Olga Wojtas reports from the Royal Geographical Society in Exeter. 糖心Vlogless women's views of home are being investigated by a Reading University postgraduate....
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Gauls upset by Anglo-Saxon Web
Georgia Tech Lorraine in Metz, eastern France, the European branch of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, has become the first higher education institution in France to be taken to court...
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Danes divided over new minister
Jytte Hilden, Denmark's new minister of research and technology, has been given a mixed reception by the research and university communities. Although some were sceptical after judging her four-year...
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French find surplus francs in kitty
In what the French education minister Francois Bayrou described as a "pleasant surprise", an extra Ffr3 billion (Pounds 337 million) has been found for student support. The French government is...
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Baltic state annuls 'red' degrees
Lithuania's parliament has declared invalid degrees awarded by Communist party colleges during the Soviet period. The decision, described by the speaker of the parliament or Seimas, Vytautas...
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Star maker
(Photograph) - Star maker: scientists have discovered a new stage in the formation of a star, writes Julia Hinde. Derek Ward-Thompson of the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh told a meeting of The Royal...
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Geographer quits society in Shell protest
The academic who last year proposed that the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers drop Shell as a corporate sponsor has announced his decision to resign from the society a...
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Labour promise one board in A-level row
A Labour government would wipe out the six A-level exam boards and create a single, more accountable national board, the party has confirmed following the latest grade inflation scandal. Last week...
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'Prejudice' fears over inquiry
The Australian government has appointed the English former headmaster of an elite Sydney private school to chair a Dearing-style inquiry into the future of higher education. Roderick West, who has a...
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Bankrupt Ukraine cancels grants
Ukraine students have received an unwelcome new year present from their government. The payment of grants has been cancelled, as from January 1, and in future will be paid only to those students who...
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SA dentist helps to heal racial abscess
When Jairam Reddy left school in the 1960s there was nowhere in South Africa where he could study his chosen profession, dentistry. There were universities which offered dentistry, but not to people...