Doctors in trouble as Danes impose quota
A DISPUTE which threatened an agreement on student mobility between the Nordic nations days before it became effective has been defused - but only until the end of the year. Norway's minister of...
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Cash glitch solved
THE Chinese government has set up a national fund to support the publication of academic works in the natural sciences and technology, writes Geoff Scott. Owing to funding problems China has had...
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Kenya turns to private market
KENYA's government is to grant charters to nine private universities on condition that they help meet the country's need for degree courses in science and technology. The private universities will be...
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Accusation of nuclear arms link hits Israel
ISRAEL's Ben-Gurion University has been accused by the United States government of breaching an agreement on the supply of a supercomputer by using it for nuclear research. The allegation came to...
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Entomologist is honoured
INSECT specialist Thomas Odhiambo has been declared 1997's most distinguished African scientist by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Ibadan, Nigeria. The institute makes awards...
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Hammering in a love of learning
THE Turkish metal workers' union is to open its own university near Ankara. Classes at the Turkish Metalworkers' University and Union Academy will begin at the next semester if the authorities give...
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No codding for Chance Cove
AFTER working from 5am until noon to haul up a slim catch, fisherman Roy Clarke had to go and help his daughter move to Toronto. She has a job lined up. His daughter is not the first person to leave...
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Plea to ban poaching of students
POACHING of foreign fee-paying students by some Australian universities could damage the nation's Aus$3 billion-a-year international education market, according to a member of the federal government'...
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Equality law threatens survival of male sport on US campuses
THE WOMEN'S National Basketball Association has made its United States debut - another milestone for women's sports. Twenty-five years after US President Richard Nixon signed the famous Title IX,...
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Famous five fail to redress sexual balance
THEELECTION of significant numbers of women to the new House of Commons, which will have a noticeable impact on its culture and way of working, naturally leads to higher education institutions...
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Access debate: take your positions now
Nervous preparations are afoot to meet Government requirements that universities admit students from a wider range of backgrounds. The English funding council carried out a study of present...
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Huggers' charter is needed
IF THINGS go on like this children are going to be deprived of cuddles; the teaching of young children will be a man-free zone; social workers will become an endangered species and yet more people...
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How can Cinderella join her big sister at the ball?
Emma Westcott hopes the Dearing inquiry will resist the temptation to develop higher education at the expense of its poorer relative THERE are important similarities between the report of the...
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Grounding of a star turn
The Royal Greenwich Observatory could run for ever for a fraction of the cost of the Millennium Experience. So why is it being axed, asks Jasper Wall On July 4 Pathfinder landed on Mars and the...
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Languages are unsung
John Reilly, (THES, July 4), draws our attention to the decline in United Kingdom Erasmus student mobility in the past two years. May I suggest that UK students' low rate of participation may be...