Racial strife seeps on to campus
With the United States awash with talk of racial divides, the fallout from events like the OJ Simpson trial and the million man march on Washington are making themselves felt in the nation's campuses...
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Canberra overhauls assessments
Australia is expected to replace its system of quality assurance in higher education with annual reviews of universities that focus on a single issue. After three rounds in which a federal committee...
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Bashed spuds spur pioneers
Britain's potato industry is rooting for researchers at Nottingham Trent University in their bid to understand what causes potatoes to become bruised. Rejecting such potatoes costs the industry...
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Terminal anarchist subjected to strip-search
Jesse Hirsh had a great time publishing a political newsletter, using the email accounts of his stepbrother and a friend at the University of Toronto - until the day police officers came to haul him...
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Senator swings loan scythe
The American Council on Education, which represents more than 1,500 colleges and universities, was engaged last week in an all out effort to stave off cuts in student loan assistance amid the battle...
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Phosphate remedy for acid lake
Environmental scientists have found a paradoxical way of solving the problem of acidic lakes - by adding to them a substance that causes the other major environmental lake problem, eutrophication....
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Machine, mend thyself
A Pounds 5.1 million British-Finnish initiative is developing automated production lines whose machine tools are sufficiently intelligent to diagnose their own faults. The European Union-funded...
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Welsh dust reveals light-fingered felons
Researchers at the University of Wales in Swansea are helping in the fight against crime by developing a new type of powder to uncover fingerprints. Prints found at the scene of a crime are not...
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Youths face gambling lure
Seven years of research into gambling addiction has concluded that up to 6 per cent of adolescents could become pathologically addicted to slot machines. The research, published this week, highlights...
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Clue to Down's heart riddle
Molecular geneticists at Imperial College have provided a clue to what goes wrong when babies with Down's syndrome are born with heart defects. Nearly half of all babies with the syndrome are born...
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Alarm over student suicides
Students are at "special risk" from stress-induced suicide because of fears over unemployment and subsequent "failure", a social work expert warned this week. The financial pressures facing today's...
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Payment by results looms
Welsh universities and colleges would be paid by results under plans being considered by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. The possible introduction of an "output" element in the Welsh...
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Scottish mentor scheme scrapped
The Scottish Office Education Department has scrapped its controversial mentor scheme for student teachers less than three months after it was postponed until next year. There has been hostility both...
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Islands on high cost road to success
Setting up a federal University of the Highlands and Islands may require funding of up to Pounds 110 million by the end of the century, according to one of its leading champions. Robin Lingard,...
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Chancellor choice queried
(Photograph) - The debate over the election and role of the university chancellor was gaining momentum this week at Huddersfield University, which has been without one since last December. The search...