Active brain combats gloom
People who live longer do not have to fear a decrepit old age if they just keep active, say scientists PETER Coleman is an ardent supporter of lifelong learning, but his view of it is broader than...
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Eco calls for live-in colleges
Umberto Eco has suggested that Italy's state university system would benefit from the establishment of live-in colleges along the lines of those in Britain. "But it is not a question of adopting...
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Gag on Asia haze scaremongers
Academics in Malaysia are only barred from publicising their findings on the health effects of the haze and not on other sensitive issues, said education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. His...
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Travel to improve the lingo
German students are failing the foreign languages test, according to a survey carried out for the education ministry. Although 85 per cent of students claim to have some knowledge of English, only...
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Cash aid for quake repairs
The Italian university ministry has announced that billion lire (Pounds 10 million) will be paid out immediately to repair the damage to universities in Umbria and Marche during the massive...
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Student voucher funding irks university leaders
Australian vice chancellors last week rejected a key proposal in the West report on the future of higher education that called for funding universities through student grants or scholarships. The...
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Fees flatten out at US colleges
A NATIONAL commission on the price of higher education in the United States has been told that students' real costs soared from 1987 to 1993 but have stayed almost flat for the past three years. The...
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Worldwide Webster
ASMALL campus in the American Midwest is opening branches on five continents in a bid to become the world's first international university. Webster University in St Louis already offers American-...
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Techno age for La Laguna
Universities in the Canary Islands have learned the benefits of working together. Rebecca Warden reports The University of La Laguna was founded in 1792. Traditionally orientated towards humanities...
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Muslims demand sartorial freedom
SOME OF Turkey's leading universities are refusing to admit women students who adopt the strict Islamic dress code. Each day at Istanbul University, Islamic women students hold a silent protest...
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Grants abolition should be reversed
This week, under cover of the pre-budget statement with its money for after-school clubs and publication of the Fryer report with its emphasis on access, the bill to reform student loans, abolish...
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Control will cost goodwill
What are universities for? This was the theme of a conference at Cumberland Lodge last week organised with Glaxo Wellcome, supported by The THES and held under Chatham House rules. It could not have...
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Potential for development
In The THES (November 14), Sir Robert May, Bahram Bekhradnia, "John Smith" and others reflected on the future funding of research by the higher education funding councils. Bekhradnia suggested the...
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Misread in tooth and claw
The Science of Jurassic Park and The Lost World, or How to Build a Dinosaur
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Metropolitan measures
The Early Modern City 1450-1750 - The Growth of the Medieval City from Late Antiquity to the Early 14th Century - The Later Medieval City 1300-1500