Italians shun college scene
Italy's universities are witnessing the sharpest drop ever in first-year enrolments. New students for the 1996/97 academic year fell by 3 per cent compared with 1995/96, when, for the first time...
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French researchers get business boost
A draft law that is about to go before the French parliament will allow public sector researchers to start up their own companies, hold stock or become consultants in firms using their research...
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Romania eases way for second language
Romania is on the verge of back-tracking on a legal requirement which made Romanian the mandatory language of instruction for all students at universities and all other levels of education,...
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Delegation banned from Cuban trip
An American delegation to an academic conference in Havana was prevented from travelling to Cuba by the United States government. The seven-member delegation planned to attend the international...
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Lecturers protest over unpaid salary arrears
Lecturers at the University of Ibadan are threatening to withhold examination marks in a dispute over salaries they claim are owed after the end of last year's seven-month strike. And Omoniye Adewoye...
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Gambia gets first university
The Gambia should have its first university this autumn thanks in part to a small and internationally unknown university on the east coast of Canada. The university will be built on to three existing...
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Is he arking up the wrong tree?
É«ºÐÖ±²¥HEAD of earth sciences at Melbourne University is putting his professional reputation and possibly his financial future at risk by suing a creationist. Geology professor Ian Plimer has taken to...
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Work log reveals slackers myth
A SURVEY at a Canadian university shows that full-time professors work an average of 49 hours a week. The finding, according to the 12-member committee which coordinated the study, counters "the...
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Land of the rising daughter
JAPAN has appointed its first female president of a national university. Masako Niwa becomes president of Nara Women's University at Nara in west Japan, after 35 years working as a researcher,...
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Race bias may deter students
FOR É«ºÐÖ±²¥ first time this year, fee-paying students from Singapore are expected to outnumber those from Malaysia in Australia's universities. Bad publicity in the Malaysian media last year over a...
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State grip too tight for comfort
FROM É«ºÐÖ±²¥ hothouse universities of the tiger economies of the Far East to Africa's riot-torn and constantly closed campuses, there is a wealth of anecdotal evidence to suggest growing state...
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Shadow cast out
Some kinds of pain are not dulled by repetition, confirms Labour's further and higher education spokesman Bryan Davies as his search for a seat ended in failure last week. But at least he is being...
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Undercutting remark
Sir John Hanson, director general of the British Council and after-dinner speaker at last week's Higher Education Funding Council for England gathering at the University of Warwick, did little for...
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Flower power
Warwick University was looking particularly pristine in honour of the HEFCE visit. Sprinklers played on the smooth lawns and the bedding plants stood neatly to attention in weed-free beds. "You...
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Imprudent pruning
Pity really, if the universities want to persuade the politicians that they could not possibly afford another penny of efficiency gain, that this sparkling campus was the scene of Tony Blair's visit...