Canada told to revamp image
Idyllic images of Canada's snow-capped mountains, golden wheat fields and sparkling lakes are hampering efforts to attract tourists, skilled workers and inward investment, according to a marketing...
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Moscow
Up to 100 of the 500 Russian students in China have ignored education minister Vladimir Filippov's advice to come home to escape the Sars virus.
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Baghdad
Iraq's students have been advised to return to their studies on Saturday, but it is unclear how many of the country's universities will be able to function.
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Rangoon
Burmese academic Salai Tun Than has been released after serving 18 months of a seven-year sentence for staging a one-man demonstration in support of human rights and democracy. He was on hunger...
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Algiers
The Algerian government is attempting to attract back some of the 66,000 academics who left the country between 1994 and 1999.
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Rome
The first woman to head a Vatican academy was nominated last week by Pope John Paul II. Letizia Pani Ermini, professor of archaeology at Rome's La Sapienza University, became president of the...
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Palestine wins £3.9m in aid
The European Commission and the World Bank are to inject emergency funding into Palestine's university system, which has been facing heavy financial pressures during the past three years of conflict...
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French protest over fees hike
France's elite Institute of Political Studies plans to break an educational taboo by increasing fees by up to three times, but with safeguards to protect poor students. Richard Descoings, director of...
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Will you stand for Blair's bloody-mindedness?
The Conservatives would ditch the dogma and deliver a fair deal for students and universities, insists Damian Green A future Conservative government's pledge to scrap Labour's tuition fees and get...
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Harry Kroto
Our country must be the only one in which passengers never know from which platform their trains will leave - if they leave at all Why is it that the nations that led the 'high-tech' war cannot move...
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Don's diary: communicable diseases
Saturday Yesterday, the World Health Organisation website showed only two recorded cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) in Malaysia, fewer than in the UK. But Singapore is nearby, so it...
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Lawyers get it in the neck
Lawyers have long been described as blood-suckers. Now Canadian researchers have identified exactly how. At next week's vampire conference, Sarah Swan and Sharon Sutherland of the University of...
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A not so sure bet
Oxford University has not ruled out appointing an insider as vice-chancellor, despite speculation that its selection committee would follow Cambridge's lead by looking abroad. But a well-placed...
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Age-old problem
Are you worried that modern genetic technology - offering the scope to breed humans to order - poses new problems? Think again. At last week's meeting of the Human Genetics Commission (page 9),...
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Madman seeks explosive ally
Chemist and former stage technician Roy Lowry of the University of Plymouth is planning to create the world's largest Catherine wheel - but needs someone to assist him. Dr Lowry has the go-ahead from...