Venice in peril again
During 1998, the acqua alta lapped over St Mark's Square on 76 days and Venetians fear the disastrous 1996 flooding may become a recurring nightmare. But this month the ambitious Moses project to...
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia is to introduce the community college concept nationwide to accommodate students not accepted into local higher learning institutions. The ministry also plans to build another five...
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Sicily
Two academics at the University of Catania have been arrested on charges of being part of an international gang trafficking in Greek, Etruscan and Roman archeological treasures. Giacomo Manganaro,...
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Siberia
Russian scientists are planning to recreate an Ice Age steppe environment in a small wildlife preserve near the Arctic town of Chersky. Horses, bison, moose and reindeer are being introduced into the...
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Stockholm
Sigbrit Franke, 56-year-old professor of educational theory and rector of Umea University in Sweden, has been named university chancellor and head of Hogskoleverket (Association of Universities and...
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Extra cash but too few students
Denmark's finance bill for 1999 adds 3,100 extra higher education places next year and a further 3,900 a year until 2003 but there are not enough applicants. Fewer than 60 per cent of 2,400 places...
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Basque professor urns too much for comfort
A Spanish university professor who shares his office with almost 40 funeral urns is campaigning for a burial site for the ashes. The ashes are the remains of people who have donated their bodies for...
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Left professors seize chance to overturn Jurassic economy
Left-of-centre professors and academicians are seizing their first chance in nearly a decade to propose radical solutions to Russia's economic ills. Former dissidents, social democrats and reformist...
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Teacher crisis for Gregorian University
The Gregorian University in Rome, for centuries the global nerve centre of the Jesuits, is suffering from a serious shortage of qualified teachers. Many Jesuits, the intellectual storm-troopers of...
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China creates super-profs
Between 300 and 500 young and middle-aged professors in China will be paid unprecedented salaries over the next three to five years in an education ministry scheme to raise academic standards, writes...
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University fat cats cream off Pounds 74m
Australian universities spend up to 10 per cent of their wages bills on salaries for top executives and the total probably exceeds Aus$200 million (Pounds 74 million) each year. On average, 55 per...
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US call to deter foreign medics
An influential committee chaired by former senator George Mitchell has recommended ending government subsidies to medical students in the United States who are not American citizens. But the proposal...
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Diagnosing some ariasof concern
A husband and wife team are examining ways physicians have historically been portrayed in opera as a way of understanding criticism of today's doctors. In the world of opera, doctors have figured...
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Cholera death sparks protest
Obafemi Awolowo University, created over 30 years ago in the city of Ile-Ife, was once described as architecturally the best campus in Nigeria. It had an efficient and functional lake from which it...
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Christmas all wrapped up in family ties
As the tills finally fall silent on Christmas Eve, commercialism and cynicism tend to wash away. Families, who may see each other seldom and like each other little, nonetheless gather to renew the...