Exams stamp out corruption
Thousands of Chinese graduates have been taking the new national civil service recruitment examinations. Up until now government departments were free to follow their own recruitment procedures and...
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A case of crime and punishment
The death penalty is on trial in Rostov on Don and novelist Feodor Dostoevsky, who once faced a firing squad, is in the witness box. The mock trial, complete with black-robed presiding judge,...
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Library director brought to book
Valerii Leonov, the director of the library of the Russian Academy of Science in St Petersburg, faces criminal charges for misappropriation of books under his care. According to the St Petersburg...
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Sorbonne heals wounds of 1968
The Sorbonne deserves its prestige and reputation but the ancient university may have to undergo profound changes to face the future, according to France's National Evaluation Committee. The...
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Give our museums back back
Have today's public museums lost sight of their original purpose of educating, informing and stimulating curiousity and imagination? Have they become the sterile preserve of fastidious curators, self...
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Travelling Danes saved by English
Danish universities are considering whether to increase radically the number of courses taught in English to attract foreign students to Denmark. The Danes fear that they will not be able to attract...
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Search for a perfect tutor
The Humanities Institute at Charles University in Prague was founded only two years ago, born in the vacuum created by the disappearance of the old Institute of Marxism-Leninism. But its roots lie in...
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Greek universities in cash crisis
Lack of money has forced two Greek premier educational establishments, the University of Crete and the Polytechnic of Crete to close their doors for an indefinite period throwing the future of...
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Job law discriminates
Employment legislation is keeping ethnic minorities out of trade unions, according to a report from Warwick University. The report, Organising the unorganised: race, poor work and trade unions,...
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Russian spy plane takes the super-high way
European scientists are hiring a Russian spy plane and its pilot to fly through high polar clouds and measure their contribution to the degradation of the ozone layer. The pilot will fly the plane,...
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Children get health tips from soaps
Young children learn more about health from television than from school, according to Warwick University's department of applied social studies research. The survey, which questioned more than 300...
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GP computer use to patients queried
Family doctors who use computers during consultations can help improve their performance in tasks such as immunisation, checking blood pressure and prescribing. But Glasgow University researchers are...
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Armagh's scholarly ascent
In the Ulster city of saints and scholars, only the former seemed well catered for - until now. Armagh has two towering cathedrals and a dozen other churches but only one, fairly run down, further...
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Poll over semester pilot
A confidential poll of all academic and related staff at Liverpool John Moores University is being organised by Natfhe, the university and lecturers' union, to see what they think about the...
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Leeds Met looks at FE merger
Leeds Metropolitan University has taken the first steps towards merger with a nearby further education college this week. If the new affiliation is judged a success LMU and Airedale and Wharfedale...