Chow-chow
When addressing a workshop about exchanges with Chinese universities, Roger Greatrex, professor of Chinese at Lund University, Sweden, stressed the importance of making sure Chinese academics had...
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Pillars of learning
The means by which universities might develop links with their host communities were well documented a year or two back by John Goddard's report on the issue for the Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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Getting the birdie
Serious alarm for ornithologically inclined staff at the Open University, already contemplating the possible loss of 350 jobs in a shake-up of the institution. Headline on a column in the latest...
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King's ransom
Many thanks to Ged Martin, professor of Canadian studies at Edinburgh University, for news of alumnus to be proud of No. 81, one Nicholas of Hungary. He is pretty unchallengeably the oldest entrant...
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Plea to protect franchise critics
AN ACADEMIC pressure group has called for greater protection for lecturers on overseas franchised courses when they raise concerns about standards. The Council for Academic Freedom and Academic...
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Finds query China's past
AN INTERNATIONAL conference on the Mysteries of Ancient China last weekend was told that the established perception of the centrifugal evolution of Chinese civilisation is out of date. The conference...
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Cambridge boasts state school rise
Cambridge University increased its intake of state school students again this year, but students are demanding an investigation into the continued existence of an "old-boy" influence on admissions....
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Foot care feels the takeover pinch
The University of Westminster's threatened podiatric medicine division could be taken over by the University of Brunel. Plans to close the division were announced earlier this year but have met...
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Screen search for siblings
MORE THAN 1,500 sets of brothers and sisters are being enlisted across the United Kingdom in a bid to discover the genes responsible for high blood pressure. Researchers at Aberdeen, Cambridge,...
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Tories bust the record on crime
Conservative policy has failed to tackle Britain's chronic youth crime problem, according to research by Luton University. Researchers from the university centre for crime study say that the number...
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Optometrists keep computer's eye on driving
A COMPUTER model simulating human vision could help improve road safety, University of Wales scientists believe. Researchers there are familiar with the physics and biochemistry of individual...
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Pupils pool brains to improve GCSEs
TEACHING children to think for themselves can dramatically improve children's exam performance, educationists at King's College, London, have shown. A study by the college's school of education...
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Grim warning on student funding
A new OECD report says rising enrolment and stagnating budgets will make it harder than ever for member countries to maintain per capita spending. Stella Hughes reports. The Organisation for Economic...
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Australia reverts to full-cost tuition fees
LEGISLATION that allows universities to charge Australian students full fees for the first time in 20 years and which sharply raises the charges that all students must pay finally passed through the...
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Race row unsettles campus coffers
A bitter dispute over Asian immigration and government subsidies to aborigines has alarmed senior academics in Australia. They have warned that the tenor of a national debate about race could damage...