Gay slams church obstinacy
A homosexual was first denied enrolment in Milan's Catholic University because he could not produce a certificate of baptism, and then for years was refused baptism by his parish priest because he is...
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Reykjavik project brings Icelandic sagas out of Norse code
A five-year project to translate the entire canon of ancient Icelandic sagas from Old Norse into a foreign language, English, for the first time has been completed by translators and international...
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Irish plan to limit enrolment
The Irish department of finance is planning to cap full-time student numbers in universities, institutes of technology and other higher education colleges. At present, 49 per cent of the relevant age...
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Chancellors seek Slovak reforms
Chancellors of six Slovak universities and colleges have joined Catholic bishops in a call for political reforms and the defence of civil liberties in the run-up to this autumn's elections. The...
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Rectors face beards crisis
Turkish academics face being forced into the centre of deepening controversy over religious dress in universities. YOK, the ruling authority for universities, and the joint rectors' committee have...
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Triple X marks exam success
China is introducing a college entrance examination next year that will make student enrolments more flexible and beef up middle-school teaching quality. The new "three-plus" system is aimed at...
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Apocalypse exercises brains
THE WORLD apparently will end with neither a bang nor a whimper, but an academic conference. The approach of the millennium has spawned apocalyptic studies programmes, books and multi-disciplinary...
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Defence scholarships
The Defence Evaluation and Research Agency has launched a scholarship scheme for at least 40 mathematics, science and engineering students. The scholarship is worth Pounds 1,000 per student per year...
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Sources for research funding in 1998
EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu.int/comm/dg12/. Information technologies (ESPRIT) Contact: email: esprit@dg13.cec.be Open call: Research proposals in domains 1,2,6 and 8....
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China reform brings job cuts
The most radical restructuring of Chinese government since the Communists came to power in 1949 is having a direct affect on graduate job prospects. Chinese premier Zhu Rongji has announced sweeping...
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Degree sale inflames students
KENYAN students are demanding tougher action against rackets involving the sale of degree certificates and academic transcripts. There is also an outcry against the introduction of part-time degrees...
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Ugandans fight for human rights
UGANDA boasts a decade of relative peace, its first in recent history. Yet even with a liberal new constitution, rewritten in 1995, and a human rights commission, forging democracy is daunting. "The...
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Out to lunch on journalism
JOURNALISM ought to be one of Sir Ron Dearing's favourite higher education subjects. Its educators teach people to be well equipped for work; to contribute effectively to society; to serve the needs...
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Retire old notions of adult education
Adult Learners' Week begins tomorrow (pages 6 and 17). This should have been a euphoric time. We have a government committed to encouraging lifelong learning and a raft of plans for bringing it about...
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Gold standard guarantees mediocrity
Britain should abandon its costly and cumbersome system of separate centralised national assessments of research and teaching, says David Smith. BRITAIN has a more costly and time-consuming system of...