Palermo
A court decision annulling more than 25 statutes at the University of Palermo has been strongly criticised as a major potential setback to single university autonomy. The Sicilian regional...
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Why academic life is sweet
An extended family, secret societies and camaraderie I Harvey J. Kaye extols the professorial career These days American academics rarely speak publicly about the delights of donnish life. No doubt...
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Historian's election opposed for questioning 'Armenian genocide'
Paris The appointment of a prominent historian to one of France's most celebrated higher education institutions has provoked claims that he has questioned whether the deaths of hundreds of thousands...
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People's University challenge to regime
Belarus, where higher education is coming under increasing pressure from the authoritarian regime of president Alaksandr Lukashenka, has become the latest country in Europe to launch an alternative...
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Clinton turns from colleges to schools
The Clinton administration has firmly shifted its priorities away from widening access to colleges in favour of school improvements. Education secretary Richard Riley confirmed the priority following...
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Smart to be simple
Harold Thimbleby challenges the view that lifelong learning should equip people to cope with an ever more complex world Each person now consumes more energy, travels faster and is able to consume...
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Welsh wizardry gives managers the edge
A management information system based on one devised in Wales has been adopted by eight technical colleges in Victoria under an Aus$8 million upgrade which promises to revolutionise many aspects of...
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Novel appointments
Nottingham Trent University's trAce online writing community (trace.ntu.ac.uk) has signed up three virtual writers-in-residence for six-month stints, beginning with Florida-based Christy Sheffield...
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Grove for academe
The Combined Higher Education Software Team and publishers Macmillan have announced an academic licence for the Grove Dictionary of Art Online. Subscribing institutions gain access to text articles...
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Star quiz
Test your knowledge of space, the Spice Girls or the Teletubbies at the University of Portsmouth astronomy site, meat.csm.port.ac.uk. Set up with funding from the Particle Physics and Astronomy...
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Faulty footage
More trivia can be found at Southampton University, where Jon Sandys has created a Movie Mistakes website, www. soton.ac.uk/jwes197. The site's growing fame is such that a German film crew flew over...
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How to Get more out of case studies
WHAT John Heath tells teachers to forget conventional methods for a while and get a group of students working on a case study WHY A good case study develops deeper understandingof issues, encourages...
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Euro-MP push on Italian lecturers
Pisa An inquiry into allegations that the European Commission is seriously mishandling legal action against Italy for alleged job discrimination involving 1,500 foreign-language lecturers is being...
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Up the Amazon
Online retailer Amazon.co.uk is to sponsor the British Library's Online Public Access Catalogue (http://opac97. bl.uk). Simon Murdoch, managing director of the company, said the association would...
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Well connected
AT&T, the US telecoms group that recently formed a global partnership with BT, is the new funder of the Olivetti & Oracle Research Laboratory in Cambridge, to be known as AT&T...