CD link rebuilds course guide
Prospective higher education students can now access essential information on more than 32,000 courses in the United Kingdom through a multimedia CD-Rom. StudyLink UK from Education MultiMedia...
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Kent cashes its Net egg
The University of Kent has sold Internet provider EUnet GB to the American company Performance Systems International for Pounds 2.94 million in cash and stock. EUnet GB began in the 1980s as an...
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Standards struggle on home pages
Australia's universities have been forced to grapple with a dramatic new problem: how to set down standards for individual home pages on the World-Wide Web without infringing academic freedom. With...
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Whence Pounds 10bn?
The Conservative Political Centre's policy document on higher education shows just how far higher education policy is becoming a matter of consensus. Because of this it may not offer politicians much...
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Great expectations
David Jobbins talks to Mbulelo Mzamane about the unique problems faced in the wake of apartheid. As the second-oldest black university in sub-Saharan Africa, Fort Hare, in the remote Eastern Cape,...
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Ministry curbs new Israeli law courses
Officials at Israel's Ministry of Justice have issued a statement saying that only one of the new tertiary colleges will be granted approval to run courses in law. The ministry added a warning to the...
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Rebels' 'student' image attacked
President Borhanoddin Rabbani of Afghanistan has rejected the image of the Taleban insurgents, currently occupying the south-west of the country, as students of the Islamic religion and accused them...
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Australia reveals huge 40-year expansion
Enrolments in Australian universities have jumped 20-fold from 31,000 students to 622,000 in 40 years. This is one of the astonishing changes in a set of higher education "time series tables"...
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Ministers call for science link-ups
Science ministers from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development held decisive talks on internationalising science policy in Paris last week. Jo Ritzen, Netherlands minister of...
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Healthy interests run into trouble
Twenty-three people are to stand trial on charges of possessing forged documents to allow unqualified graduate students to enter specialist courses at Naples University medical school. Among those...
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Czechmate for Klaus tuition fee charges
Ministers in the Czech Republic have been forced into retreat over a plan to charge new students tuition fees. Opposition has proved so fierce that a law passed by the republic's council of ministers...
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Dry rot breeds on the wild side
A scientist at the University of Abertay, Dundee has achieved a world first in the fight against dry rot by successfully growing wild dry rot fungus in captivity. Nia White, of the Scottish Institute...
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Drill thrills to come
Laser technology could make visits to the dentist a pain-free experience if clinical trials at the University of London in the next two years are successful. Gavin Pearson, coordinator of the project...
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Scots and Irish swap gift of Gaelic
As the Anglo-Irish peace process rumbles on, new cross-cultural links are being fostered through an Irish-Scottish academic initiative. Trinity College, Dublin and Strathclyde and Aberdeen...
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Institute nurses health
City University's Institute of Health Sciences, set up two years ago, is to double in size to nearly 2,500 undergraduate and postgraduate students this week with a Pounds 10 million contract for...