Lib-Dems boldly go
The party conference season kicked off this week with the Liberal Democrats meeting in Glasgow. For once higher education was put up for serious consultation - both the issue of standards, on which...
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V-cs must grab political advantage
The years following the 1988 Education Reform Act have been among the most eventful in the recent history of the universities. The changes have been dramatic. Where have they left the Committee of...
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Postgraduate ramparts fall to female power
Statistics released by Israel's ministry of education have confirmed the continuation of a recent trend that has seen females comprising an ever-increasing percentage of the university population....
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Algerian academics held
Three Algerian academics have been arrested in Lyons, France, in a police swoop on networks allegedly supporting Algeria's banned extremist group, the GIA (Armed Islamic Group). The three have been...
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Harare makes slow progress
The University of Zimbabwe functions at a comfortable pace, a sign of a country where taking one's time is of the essence. Despite recent disputes between some students and the administration over...
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Grumbling Quebecois `will say non'
"Le oui va gagner" say the stickers beginning to proliferate on Montreal lamp-posts as the province of Quebec contemplates yet another sovereignty referendum this autumn. Jean-Claude Robert rather...
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Pounds 4.5m teaching scheme
The British government is investing in Uganda's education with a new Pounds 4.5 million project for in-service secondary teacher education. The five-year programme will entail building 39 secondary...
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Kenya's dying universities
Scores of students sit daily outside the Gandhi Memorial Library at the main campus of the University of Nairobi hawking stationery, textbooks and other academic paraphernalia which they have bought...
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Malaysia and US sign deal
Malaysia and the United States have signed a new agreement for the re-establishment of the Malaysian-American Commission for Educational Exchange to improve educational programmes between the two...
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Anti-PC fight-back hits courts
Peter Maas is a Cornell University professor trapped, he claims, in a Kafkaesque web of political correctness. His hugs, kisses and gifts to students were twisted into a sex harassment case,...
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More trainee teachers cut despite shortfall threat
Australia is facing a shortfall of at least 5,000 teachers within five years following savage cuts to faculty of education enrolments that have reduced the supply of new teachers to dangerously low...
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Tropical face paints fight cancer
Hundreds of natural chemicals that could protect the skin from damaging ultraviolet rays have gone unnoticed by Western scientists because they only grow in the tropics, the British Association heard...
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Thinking a cure for panic
Cognitive therapy can cure 90 per cent of panic attacks, the British Association also heard. The therapy is much more successful than drug therapy, which works in 50 per cent of cases and has a far...
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Lizards grow alone
If a planet like earth exists elsewhere it would probably have the same species on it, the British Association heard. Evolutionary biologist Paul Harvey, of Oxford University, said that DNA testing...
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Coal packs poisonous punch
Pollution from Chinese coal-fired power stations is comparable to that produced by volcanic eruptions, the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Newcastle University heard last week....