Helmet helps dyslexics
A Swedish exchange student at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen has developed a helmet that will help research into the problem of dyslexia in children. Johannes Linnman has won first prize in...
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No flies on Sussex robotic scientists
The normal response to the buzz of two flies forever chasing each other around a lamp is to swat them. But for researchers at Sussex University the flies' behaviour is a source of amazement. It...
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Elvis is alive and well and digital
Elvis Presley and John Lennon are set for a spooky comeback. A research project at Oxford University is developing the perfect electronic replication of their voices. PhD student Ken Lomax, at St...
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Lessons of elections
Tanzania's elections last year represented real progress towards democracy, but there is still some way to go. Robert Pinkney, of the University of Northumbria, told the annual conference of the...
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Why Teesside is bad for your health
Why do pregnant women smoke? The question is one of several puzzles to be unravelled by the centre for health and medical research opening at Teesside University. Director Peter Kelley says that the...
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Caribbean as she is spoke
An academic has just published the first known dictionary dedicated solely to the branch of English known as Caribbean. But the pioneering work, which has taken almost 25 years to compile, is out-of-...
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Las Vegas backs casino careers
A PhD in roulette? Master of blackjack? The study of gambling is spreading rapidly at United States colleges and universities on the back of a booming industry. "I always tell my students,'We are...
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Premier declines honorary degree
Ralph Klein, the premier of Alberta, Canada, has refused an honorary degree from the University of Alberta after protests by students. Mr Klein, whose Progressive Conservative government has been...
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Honorary degree for Qiao Shi
In Saskatchewan an honorary degree for the former head of China's secret police has proved controversial. Qiao Shi, now chairman of China's National Congress, did not, however, decide to decline his...
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Sacked lecturer wins inquiry
David Rindos has been fighting a controversial decision by the University of Western Australia that cost him his job as a lecturer in archaeology for the past three years. Sacked because the...
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Minister vows to continue revolution
If the Israeli government is re-elected in this month's elections, education minister Amnon Rubinstein wants to keep his job and attain the targets he set three years ago. These include a 50 per cent...
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Student shot after exam party
A 20-year-old medical student at the unofficial Albanian University of Pristina in Kosovo, Macedonia, was shot dead as he walked home after celebrating his exam results. Amend Daci had been...
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Private university sets green agenda
A private university is helping to inject greater environmental awareness into the curriculum of Russian schools. International University in Moscow, whose rector Gennady Yagodin is a former senior...
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Chancellors resort to closure
Greek university chancellors have agreed to close their universities for a day in protest at the government's higher education policies. The move follows a row with the education ministry over the...
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Better not just richer
There are now as many students in the United Kingdom taking higher education courses in further education colleges as there were higher education students in total when Lord Robbins's committee...