Entry test charged with bias
Standard admission tests for United States universities are being jettisoned in response to complaints that they are racially and culturally biased and exclude students with talents that maths and...
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The lost tribe of East African dons
PAY rises for academics at universities in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya are the only way to stop the brain drain to industry and to richer neighbouring countries, say educationists. Officials from the...
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Ghana fears student fees fight
GHANA is preparing for a wave of student militancy against tuition and accommodation fee rises introduced because of financial constraints. University authorities are working with the security forces...
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Arson attack at Fort Hare
PROTESTS, fire and theft are plaguing South Africa's most famous black university, the University of Fort Hare. The university is meeting strong resistance to a retrenchment exercise which could cost...
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India's view of struggle
INDIA's ten best-known historians have embarked on a government-funded project to rebut the view that independence from Britain came through a smooth and voluntary transfer of power. The historians,...
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Macao plans for takeover
CHINA's resumption of sovereignty over Macao in December 1999 is fuelling enthusiasm for China's mainland universities among Macao's young people, who see the takeover as offering more exciting and...
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Allegre forces French doors open
FRANCE's grandes ecoles are as "closed as clams" and will be "forced" to open up to more foreign students, education minister Claude All gre said as he unveiled the first major plans for higher...
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Albanians fight for campus
EJUP Stantovci, rector of the "alternative" Albanophone University of Pristina, and more than 100 students were arrested last week when ethnic Albanian students staged a massive protest against the...
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Victims of kidnapping in Chechenia
THE two-year-old son of a lecturer at the Chechen State University, and his mother, a lecturer at the Grozny Institute of Oil Technology, are among the latest victims of kidnapping in Chechenia....
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Studious patients
STUDENTS and lecturers at the Sligo Regional Technical College are boycotting part of a newly acquired college building that houses psychiatric patients, writes John Walshe, Dublin. The expanding...
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Private teething trouble
THREE private universities due to start up in Spain this week arefacing difficulties, with one being forced to change its name just days before launch and two more expected to be strongly criticised...
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Crime must pay up for research
Crime does not belong to the usual pile of neurotic imaginings that gnaw at our sense of wellbeing. Incomplete and imperfect, the official figures are still appalling. Theft and burglary amounted to...
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Health takes over as fees are waived
Little attention has been paid to the government's decision to move funding for students of medical subjects from the Department for Education and Employment to the Department of Health. The details...
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Superhighway no golden path
BILL GATES, chairman of Microsoft, has created a $200 million foundation to equip schools and libraries in the United States with computers and Internet connections. This week in the United Kingdom...
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Students don't need any lessons in making friends
Jennie Bristow takes exception to the structured methods by which academics seek to break the ice in early-year seminars The beginning of a new academic year - the time when everyone teaches the same...