Glittering prizes
Joanna Bourke, professor of history at Birkbeck College, is joint winner of this year's Wolfson Prize for historical writing for her book An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in 20th...
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From Nasa to knickers
Space technology is being used to solve the problem of incontinence. Geoff Watts reports. A medical system that can transplant a failing heart or rejoin a severed limb still cannot offer a wholly...
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Cutting edge
University museums once took the lead in conserving our heritage. With a little modest investment, they can do so again. According to Phillips' New World of Words (1706), a museum was "a study or...
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The hard drive for humankind
John Sulston is about to reveal the secrets of self to the world. Martin Ince meets the modest man leading the Human Genome Project. John Sulston, director of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, has been...
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A novel look at inventionin inventory
Is the decoding of genetic material something that should be patented? Margaret Llewelyn examines intellectual rights and the human genome. The completion of the draft of the human genome has focused...
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Barcelona
A judge has suspended language regulations at Barcelona's Pompeu Fabre University for "imposing the preferential use of Catalan" over Spanish. The case was brought by a rightwing pressure group...
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Strasbourg
A two-year, (500,000 ($311,000) project aimed at regenerating Kosovo's higher education system has been agreed between Gabriele Mazza, director responsible for education at the Council of Europe, and...
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Cochabamba
The mayor of the Bolivian municipality of Chimore is pressing the government to implement its plans to create a university in the region. Mayor Epifanio Cruz said that many local families could not...
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Lagos
Staff and student unions at Nigeria's 34 universities have begun an indefinite strike in support of 12 million workers already taking industrial action to press the government of Olusegun Obasanjo to...
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Cold logic that kills learning
A punishing bureaucratic formula and outdated system have led to crisis in Denmark, says Marlene Edelstein In common with much of the faculty of humanities at Copenhagen University, the English...
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Eyewitness
A row over an ancient Jewish cemetery discovered during redevelopment in Prague has exposed deep divisions within Judaism. Discovery of human remains from a long-lost Jewish graveyard halted...
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Masters to benefit German teachers
A new masters degree at Berlin's Free University is aiming to improve the job prospects of new teachers in Germany. It tries to give teachers an international perspective and hands-on training in a...
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Millennium project a runaway success
Halfway into its life, the Universite de Tous les Savoirs, France's millennium celebration of learning and knowledge, has been hailed as a huge success. So far, more than 70,000 members of the public...
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Brno tipped to gain Pounds 70m campus
Plans for a medical and science park in Brno - the Czech Republic's second city - are likely to win government backing later this year. Jiri Zlatuska, rector of Masaryk University in the city,...
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Lecturer strips off to mark exam
An exam in civil engineering is an unlikely situation in which to encounter the examining professor emerging, soaked to the skin, from an improvised shower stall. For Alessandro Del Bufalo, a civil...