Trade unionists branded as campus security risk
LECTURERS who led the banned Academic Staff of Universities have been labelled "security risks" on the two campuses of the University of Nigeria at Nsukka. The authorities have used the term to...
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Rwandan scholars 'conspired'
THE RWANDAN massacres of 1994 were far from simple explosions of tribal hatred. The intellectual basis for mass murder was laid by university scholars trained in the United States and Britain, it is...
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Sector's shower of gifts
Canada's shell-shocked higher education sector has gratefully accepted a host of gifts from a government expected to call an election soon. Liberal finance minister Paul Martin has unveiled the...
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Melbourne plans full fees
The University of Melbourne has become the first Australian university to unveil plans to charge some home undergraduates full-cost fees of up to Aus$22,000 (Pounds 11,000) a year. If plans by Alan...
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Prizewinning abuser jailed
Nobel prize winner Daniel Carleton Gadjusek will spend a year behind bars after pleading guilty to two counts of sex abuse on a boy he adopted from Micronesia, in the Pacific Ocean. Professor...
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Second sex centre set to be first to go
Academics at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute in Montreal are feeling very much like the "second sex" now that their feminist research centre has been targeted for closure. Concordia University in...
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Thailand to get 'western' university
British and Australian universities face a new competitor for students from the burgeoning economies of Southeast Asia. Academics and administrators from North Carolina's Duke University are helping...
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Same-sex university to last 100 days
MADELEINE Albright, Benazir Bhutto and Hillary Clinton all graduated from one: now German academics have come closer to creating a women's university to produce the leaders of tomorrow. A women's...
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Weak grounds for coffee fears
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle If coffee was our worst vice, we would be in fine shape, says a leading medical academic...
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Split over logging
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle SUSTAINABLE management of tropical forests may cause more environmental damage than...
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Does your lab need a helping hand?
(Photograph) - Does your lab need a helping hand? Deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine unveiled an 'incubator' for corporate ventures in biosciences at Manchester University this week. But...
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Tiller girls shortage
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle STRICT segregation of the sexes may have played a part in the decline of Athens, a...
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By hook or by Crooks
(Photograph) - By hook or by Crooks: 22-year-old Lara Crooks has become the University of Wolverhampton's first deaf student to achieve the National Pool Lifeguard qualification. She trained with the...
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Unions hail pensions climbdown
MINISTERS have postponed changes to early-retirement payments for lecturers in colleges and new universities in a climbdown heralded as a campaigning triumph by teaching unions. The proposed changes...
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Freestyle policy limbo for students
Thousands of university students all over Italy are in a bureaucratic limbo because law courts, legislators and university authorities have failed to adopt a common policy on limited admission to...