The appliance of science potential
Science minister David Hunt announced the allocation of the Pounds 1.3 billion science budget yesterday. Mark Richmond argues against Government attempts to micro-manage research. It is now nearly...
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Clinton loans 'save student money'
University administrators all over the United States are telling Bill Clinton that they are saving "weeks and weeks of bureaucratic time" because of his new student loan programme. Thus President...
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Copyright case don cleared
A Hong Kong University inquiry has completely cleared a senior academic of any wrongdoing or dishonourable conduct, three years after he was found guilty of plagiarism in the High Court. The finding...
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Call to root out officials who plagiarise
Plagiarism by academics and students receives too much attention in universities and is condemned in far too extreme terms, according to an Australian researcher at Wollongong University. Given the...
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Charges for right brigade
Today is the deadline for submissions to the Secretary of State for Education's review of higher education. Our reports of the evidence that has been pouring in show eagerness for expansion,...
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Cuts put brake on expansion
Israel's minister of education, Amnon Rubinstein, was this week trying to find savings of 151 million shekels (Pounds 33.5 million) in his ministry's spending to meet government expenditure cuts...
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Italy opts for state of academics
Half of the new Italian government - ten ministers out of 20 - are full-time or part-time university teachers. Not surprisingly, the new administration was immediately called il governo dei...
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France may restrict entry rights
A report on the future of French universities, commissioned by higher education minister Francois Fillon, raised a storm of protest when its contents were leaked to the press. Mr Fillon has now...
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The moral malaise
Where else can we say to the world 'remember the morality of the human condition' if not here." Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel was last week speaking at Auschwitz, 50 years after the liberation of the...
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Unesco plea for world's watchtower universities
The policy paper for change and development in higher education released by Unesco this week aims to provide a "shared platform of ideas" on the essential issues facing higher education around the...
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Destination USA for students
Overseas students are still flocking to the United States. Universities and colleges admitted an all-time high of almost 450,000 in the academic year 1993/94, but the rate of increase is slowing down...
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Wired up for words
Stroke victims, patients with neurological conditions, and people with cleft palates often need speech therapy. But often neither the therapist nor the client can identify the exact position of the...
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Civil servants' divided health
The health gap between social classes could in part result from differences in psychological well-being, according to a leading epidemiologist. Psychological factors may cause physical changes that...
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Ups and downs of wedlock
Illegitimacy in the 1850s was at least as high as it was in the early 1970s, according to a computer database that has enabled researchers at Staffordshire University to come up with a league table...
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Hidden power in bluebell woods
A remarkable discovery by British scientists offers the prospect of the humble bluebell wildflower making an important contribution in the treatment of diseases like HIV and certain cancers. For...