Cutting edge
The Mediterranean is rich with underwater sites revealing our past, but laws are needed to stop them being plundered 'We stumbled on the remains of a ship that showed these huge earthenware vessels...
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Italy confronts funding furore
In our focus on Italian research, Paul Bompard reports on new efforts to shake up an unequal and underfunded system. Below, he looks at the agonies and the ecstasies of medical researchers According...
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Trial Aids vaccine works on monkeys
In our focus on Italian research, Paul Bompard reports on new efforts to shake up an unequal and underfunded system. Below, he looks at the agonies and the ecstasies of medical researchers The...
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Medicine comes a poor second to physics
In our focus on Italian research, Paul Bompard reports on new efforts to shake up an unequal and underfunded system. Below, he looks at the agonies and the ecstasies of medical researchers The...
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Courting business is key to progress
Research chief Luciano Criscuoli tells Paul Bompard the government is encouraging the private sector to help fund more research projects After almost 20 years at the Ministry for Universities and...
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St Francis's basilica made to rise from earthquake ruins
Restorers save frescoes by injecting walls with a quake-proof resin that will last to the next millennium On September 26 1997, a violent earthquake rocked central Italy. In the hilltop town of...
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Welsh see a merger turf war looming
Up to eight higher education institutions could be forced to close under plans put to the Welsh Assembly by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. The plans could ignite debate over...
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Fist fight
(Photograph) - A Belgrade student peers through the 'fist' symbol of the student resistance movement to the Slobodan Milosevic regime at a rally in the Serbian capital last Tuesday. Demonstrations...
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Digital age leaves professors talking turkey
Britain's traditional universities will be "well and truly stuffed" by online higher education providers unless steps are taken to embrace the electronic future of education. This was just one view...
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Bujumbura
Burundi's first private university has opened in Bodi with 400 students in the faculties of the humanities and social sciences. Numbers will grow to 6,000 in four years with the opening of faculties...
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People power
(Photograph) - Staff and students at the Autonomous University of Mexico ballot the public about whether they agree with plans for higher tuition fees. The aim is to break the deadlock in a dispute...
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Commercial 'threat to freedom'
MONTREAL. Canadian higher education appears to be building a "corporate university" that places commercial opportunities ahead of academic freedom, a professor warns in a book published today. Neil...
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Agony aunt
Q. I have been asked to set up a work experience programme for a group of students, but am getting a poor response from local firms. Any advice please? Oliver Fry Research officer. The National...
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Do exams hinder student learning?
NO. Assessment, when effectively designed and fit for purpose, will greatly help the development of a learning society because: It enables students to get the measure of their own achievement and the...
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Do exams hinder student learning?
YES. Normal assessment practice is a well- intended but bureaucratically driven attempt to assure the quality of education. It is characterised by standardised learning objectives, assignments and...