The brave new wave
Local communities are learning lightning-fast. In city halls and county chambers from Cornwall to Cumbria and beyond, it is almost de rigeur for the dynamic, go-far councillor to propose plans for a...
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War-torn campus reopens
* Twenty-five corpses were found on the campus during clean-up operations by volunteers in preparation for the re-opening, Vera Rich writes. Two mass graves had previously been discovered next to a...
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War-torn campus reopens
Kabul University reopened this month but no students and few lecturers were at the formal ceremony in the Afghan capital. The mood was more optimistic, however, than at the time of the last re-...
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Nigerian theatre works lost in fire
A fire at Nigeria's leading university has destroyed thousands of books and other documents on philosophy, theatre arts and Arabic and Islamic studies. Among material lost were dissertations...
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Atlas maps race literacy divisions
Years of research into educational statistics have just produced the first comprehensive education atlas of South Africa, to be used by planners as they begin the urgent task of upgrading and...
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Barrister strikes blow for aborigines
A New South Wales magistrate last week became the first aborigine and black woman to be installed chancellor of an Australian university. Pat O'Shane, a prominent advocate of women, aborigines and...
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Student voters waver
The two factors set to sway the outcome of the first round of voting in the French elections this Sunday are the youth vote and the level of abstention, according to political analysts here. Student...
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Alumni launch PC fightback
Students facing allegations of breaking campus codes on political correctness in the United States will receive a helping hand from an organisation designed to "preserve free speech and free thought...
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Cornell dorms in racism probe
New York State's education department is investigating a complaint that the policy at Cornell University of reserving halls of residence for members of racial groups violates the law. The complaint...
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Hong Kong head moves
The director of Hong Kong's Open Learning Institute has been appointed to run the Commonwealth of Learning, set up by Commonwealth governments in 1988 to encourage wider international access to...
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Defining time waits for no one
Time flies like an arrow. A simple enough sentence, until Glasgow University professor Simon Garrod points out that it has at least 48 different meanings. "Time" can be a noun or a verb, as in "to...
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Tempest predicts pests
Farmers battling against crop pests will soon be helped by a new device which can predict pest outbreaks. The Tempest pest predictor has been developed by Peter Langley, the manager of Insect...
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Sound of muzak can often grate
Shops and restaurants which play music in a bid to attract customers should heed a warning note from Leicester University: the wrong music can be worse than no music at all. Although there is...
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Fascists march on to the Internet
Fascists and far-right groups are increasingly using the Internet to communicate with each other, according to Mike Whine, of the board of directors of British Jews. Speaking at a conference on the...
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No train strain for French
France's high-speed train, the TGV, flashes daily across the country at up to 200mph (320kph) and has been sold to Spain for its AVE line. Britain's counterpart, the APT, sits in sidings at the...