Vietnam vets claim anti-war backlash
Twenty years after the war ended, Vietnam veterans are complaining that they have been denied jobs in universities in the United States because those in charge of higher education never served in the...
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Cambodians find fault with French assault
Some 250 Cambodian students demonstrated and burned tyres last week in protest at the use of French as the teaching medium at Phnom Penh's Institute of Technology. Student leaders said the protest...
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China link poses v-c job problem
A selection committee at Hong Kong's oldest university has dropped its plan to recommend a University of Delaware professor as its next vice chancellor in the sensitive run-up to Chinese rule. The...
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How to get the dressing right
If your are seriously wounded in an accident, your chances of a quick recovery may depend on which brand of dressing your surgeon happens to find in the cupboard. Until now, there has been little...
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Aerosols raise hopes of quick medicinal fixes
Diabetics dependent on insulin and patients who receive post-operative pain killers by injection will be the first beneficiaries of pharmaceutical research at Cardiff University. Pharmacist Steve...
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Consumer class letdown
Labour bid to topple the Tories as consumer champions received a fillip with the publication of a report condemning schools for failure to educate pupils in consumer awareness. This is despite the...
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Albania puts plants on map
Vast tracts of Albanian landscape, whose plant life has been hidden for decades, are at last being explored with the help of a scientists from the United Kingdom. John Rodwell, of the Unit of...
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Varnish polishes off plaque
The Scots' notorious sweet tooth appears to be as decayed as ever among the latest batch of adolescents, with Dundee University's dental health services research unit reporting that the state of 12-...
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Matter machine may follow collaboration
A Pounds 10 million collaboration that allows Japanese researchers access to one of Europe's most advanced scientific instruments could be followed later this decade by a machine for determining the...
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A trainee at a lathe at Chelsea Polytechnic in the 1940s
(Photograph) - Learning curve: a trainee at a lathe at Chelsea Polytechnic in the 1940s, then a Ministry of Labour training centre. This picture is reproduced as part of Adult Learners' Week by the...
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Dismay at peaceline delay
The University of Ulster has voiced dismay at the Government's failure to announce a go-ahead for the much vaunted peaceline campus in West Belfast. The university warned that vital opportunities to...
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Women get bonus for staying the course
An Pounds 80 bonus for completing a return-to-learn course has been a vital part of a highly successful training initiative in Belfast. Adult Learners' Week will be celebrated next week with the...
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Students to debate funding policy
Student unions around the country have agreed to hold an extraordinary national conference on May 30, when a new funding policy is likely to be adopted. Delegates will debate the results of...
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Fast-track fillip for French teaching
A network of British and French universities is to run a new postgraduate teaching qualification intended to solve the severe foreign language teaching problem in British schools and colleges. Three...
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Glasgow University debate
(Photograph) - Girl talk: students at Glasgow University debated the motion 'That university education tends to narrow the minds of women' as part of the centenary celebration of women at the...