Open door leads to race clash
Thirteen students and a policeman were injured during race riots at South Africa's Vaal Technikon in the latest of a wave of trouble between black and white students at technikons around the country...
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Koreans seek place in their communities
Korea's universities will have to change their priorities to respond to regional development needs, a leading academic visiting Europe has said. Jungmin Kim, professor of regional development at...
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Baker's time bomb defused
Iain Crawford and Nicholas Barr suggest privatising loans, starting with postgraduates. Kenneth Baker, the former education minister, started the clock on what, in his memoirs, he genially referred...
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Different note on RUC band
With reference to your article headlined "Anthem Row Rumbles On" (THES, May 5), I would like to point out that the senate of Queen's University did not "perform a U-turn" by inviting the RUC band to...
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Finals first, jobs second
Nearly 60 per cent of this year's graduates had not applied for a job three months before finals, if the new High Fliers graduate survey is to be believed (page 8). Graduates are berated for not...
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Lifelong mantra for Shephard review
Next month, Department for Education and Higher Education Funding Council officials will meet in Oxford to consider conclusions on the first stage of the Government's higher education review. They...
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Increase in attacks on Jews
Several disturbing trends in racially motivated attacks against Jews, in many countries, are highlighted in the 1994 report of Tel Aviv University Anti-Semitism Study Project. The report indicates a...
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Budget sweetener welcomed
An extraordinary outbreak of unanimity between Australia's academics and vice chancellors greeted the federal government's announcement last week that it had allocated Aus$16.5 billion (Pounds 7.9...
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Foreign student growth slows
Australia is facing a sharp decline in the growth of its education export industry as universities compete for fee-paying students in the developing countries, writes Geoff Maslen. According to the...
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Glittering reputations do not impress students
The unequal status of research and teaching in some top research universities is the subject of a high-powered commission of scholars and scientists in the United States. Chaired by Ernest L. Boyer,...
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Coriander contains 'green' nylon clue
Scientists searching for an environmentally-friendly way of producing nylon may have found the answer in the coriander plant. Nylon is made by reacting benzene with nitric acid and, as the textile is...
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Durable paint mimics nature
Britain's multi-million pound paint industry is facing a dilemma over the environmental impact of its products. Solvent-based paints that have proved popular because of their hardy qualities emit...
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Arthritis discovery
The use of steroids could benefit thousands of arthritis sufferers, according to the results of an Pounds 85,000 research and clinical trial programme at Bristol University. In the 1950s, high doses...
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Vorsprung durch Technik in Wales
Some Welsh factories are shrugging off their traditional role as assembly operations for multinational corporations by becoming innovators in their own right. Kevin Morgan, professor of city and...
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Exploiting glamour of the tracks
The break up of the railways into separate companies could damage a bedrock of public support that grew because of their glamour as a huge interacting system, a historian of science has told a Royal...