School for homeless attracts top brains
Academics, homeless people and grassroots militants are holding the inaugural session of a "University against Exclusion" this weekend in premises taken over by a Parisian homeless action group last...
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V-cs get degree jitters
Debate about the inclusion of university degrees on the national qualifications framework is not over yet, Bruce Ross, the new chairman of the New Zealand Vice Chancellors' Committee, has warned....
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Fee receipts become coffer-fillers
Australia's unique system of deferred tuition fees is expected to provide almost A$1 billion (Pounds 500 million) for universities this year, or about 15 per cent of institutional revenues....
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Clinton fights for volunteer force
United States president Bill Clinton has decided to take on Newt Gingrich, the new Republican House of Representatives Speaker, over opposition to his national service plan. At a Martin Luther King...
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Namibia budget boost
Vice chancellor Peter Katjavivi hopes an increased budget will end the still rumbling dispute at the University of Namibia which led to a student march to the home of President Sam Nujoma last May....
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Credit linked grants rejected
German student groups have called on the newly elected Federal Parliament to address a "long overdue increase in student grants as quickly as possible". Suggestions that students could be taken off...
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Business of false budgets
Double-entry book-keeping has a special meaning at Copenhagen's School of Economics and Business Administration. The school has knowingly presented false budgets to the ministry of education to...
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Campaign for graduate ministers
Estonia's Centrist Party is campaigning to bring in laws requiring all members of the government to hold a university degree or equivalent qualification. A first draft of the bill was rejected by...
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Court probes corruption in universities
The Rome public prosecutor has formally opened an investigation into alleged corruption in assigning university posts. According to unconfirmed reports, a number of Italy's most powerful academic...
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Tax gives food for thought
Food studies lecturer Stella Walsh is to monitor the diet and lifestyles of a group of pensioners in Leeds to discover what impact the introduction of VAT on fuel bills is having on their quality of...
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Sugar data by satellite
Satellite data can now help predict the yield of the national sugar-beet crop, saving the industry nearly Pounds 2 million a year in the United Kingdom and more than Pounds 20 million across Europe....
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Aristos orchestrated rise of the concert
Late 18th-century London was a mecca for performing musicians and composers. The child prodigy Mozart travelled with his father and wrote his first symphonies there, and Haydn premiered his "London"...
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Recycled eggshells break into profits
Researchers from Glasgow Uni-versity and Queen's University, Belfast, claim to have found a way of extracting a profit from chicken eggshell waste. The United Kingdom produces 10,500 tonnes of the...
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Drugs and crime link
A clear link exists between persistent criminal behaviour by young offenders and high levels of drug use, according to Mike Collison of Keele University's department of criminology. But it is not the...
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College appeals in race case
Kingsway College, a further education college in central London found guilty of racial discrimination at an industrial tribunal last November, is to appeal. Farhad Shahrokni, a maths and computer...