The gift that keeps giving
Universities and students have benefited equally from the Carnegie Trust for nearly100 years. Olga Wojtas reports on plans to bring guest professors to its centenary celebrations. In 1901,...
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Scottish grants oil the wheels of change
Support for the offshore oil and gas industry, modern language learning and the technology of thin film coatings are among 17 projects backed by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council to help...
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Oxford to introduce part-time degrees
Oxford University is planning to establish a part-time degree for mature students as part of a raft of sweeping reforms aimed at addressing its access problems. Female students and pupils from...
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SA universities face up to HIV/Aids
A saliva test of 800 students at one of South Africa's top historically black universities found that 25 per cent were HIV positive. Confirmation at the University of Durban-Westville that the nation...
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Prompt loan cheque promise in jeopardy
Education secretary David Blunkett's promise that every student will have a loan cheque on the first day of the new university term is in jeopardy, it emerged this week. Members of a working party...
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu
(Photograph) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu arrives at the University of Hull. He was greeted by a South African student, Simangele Sekgobela (left) and her mother, Josephine. The archbishop was in Hull...
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World watch
Four dissident academics jailed for offences against the state (see left) have appealed against their sentences, which range from three to five years. They were arrested after publicly urging...
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World watch
President Mouhamed Bouteflika has promised better funding for students, teaching and research. His address to the 20,000 students at the Universite Nationale Algerienne was the first time an Algerian...
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Rebel thinkers in Havana
Tony Kapcia looks at the Cuban's thirst for answers to problems outside the rhetoric of orthodox communism At first sight, given the spring trial of four former academics as dissidents, the question...
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Anniversary flagged
(Photograph) - Indonesian students rally in front of parliament to celebrate the first anniversary of former president Suharto's resignation. The students demanded Mr Suharto to be tried for...
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World watch
Health minister Bernard Kouchner is to overhaul medical studies to end private cramming to pass an exam that leads to highly sought specialisations. Students feel pressured to take the exam rather...
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Dockland dawn full of promise
The University of East London is set to open Britain's newest university campus on a patch of for- merly derelict land. The Pounds 40 million Docklands Campus, the first to be built in the capital...
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Museums suffer from neglect
An official survey of 38 university museum collections in the South- east region has expressed deep concern over standards of care. The revolution in standards of care that has dominated the...
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An eco battle against the clock
Now in the third year of an ecology PhD at London's Imperial College, Stuart Otway thinks that a fourth year is inevitable. "There is no chance that I am going to finish before my funding runs out,"...
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Fresh ideas
(Photograph) - Fresh ideas: Sarah Hocombe, a fresco painter, has won a Pounds 5,200 Queen Elizabeth scholarship to study contemporary fresco practice in Italy.