Ethiopia peace reaps dividend
FOR THE first time since the famines of the 1980s Ethiopia has a surplus of grain. Research by Ian Robinson, director of the centre for arid zone studies at the University of Wales, Bangor has found...
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Gene mission impossible
GENETIC counselling is rarely neutral, with counsellors most likely to offer solutions to patients of low socio-economic status, a survey shows, writes Julia Hinde. The survey was designed to see...
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Lime cuts insects to the quick
ADDING lime to streams to combat the damaging effects of acid rain may do more harm than good. Recent research comparing insect communities in natural, unlimed and experimentally-limed upland mires...
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Beggars of Europe despair of recovery
Bulgaria's economic and political crisis is producing a deepening sense of hopelessness among academics despite the promise as new elections in April after a month of protests. But many academics...
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Students keep up pressure
Serbian student protests against the government's annulment of the November local election results passed their 80th day last week with some hint of progress towards acceptance of pro-democracy...
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Rough ride for Serbian ruler
The war in the former Yugoslavia destroyed almost everything: human lives, families, friendships. Miladin Zivotic is one of the few people who still has friends throughout the area, regardless of...
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Why academics are feeling down Down Under
Australia's academics appear to be suffering from deep depression: they believe standards are slipping, there are too many universities with too many lower-quality students for too few staff,...
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Attention please, the elite demand
Germany's top ten research universities are calling for preferential funding for elite research and for public funds to be linked to research performance. They claim that not enough attention is...
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Seven are charged over bogus courses
SIX PEOPLE have been charged with conspiring to defraud a further education college after a two-year investigation into bogus courses, writes Harriet Swain. A seventh has been charged with forgery as...
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Brits pin hopes on Hubble fix
British scientists are this week waiting to see whether ambitious attempts to update the Hubble space telescope go according to plan, writes Julia Hinde. Seven astronauts blasted off from the Kennedy...
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Union chief dies at fees protest meeting
Fee increases estimated at more than 500 per cent have led to violent incidents at some Nigerian universities. The Federal University of Benin has been closed indefinitely and the students sent home...
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US snubs peace gift
Agboola Gambari, Nigeria's permanent representative at the United Nations in New York, has been thwarted in attempts to improve his country's image in American academic circles. Professor Gambari, a...
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The balance of quality and autonomy
THE APPOINTMENT of Christopher Kenyon as chairman of the new quality agency marks another important step towards a single set of external quality assurance arrangements for United Kingdom higher...
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Uncle Glenn needs you
The European launch of Knowledge TV (Multimedia, page 28) is a pre-emptive strike. American cable entrepreneur Glenn Jones wants to seize the educational niche in local cable companies' offerings...
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Why a glut is good
Political parties are conspiring to keep higher education off the election agenda. Last week disaffected backbencher and former higher education minister, George Walden, did his best to stir things...