Volcano ash chokes planes
When Mount Galunggung in Indonesia erupted in June 1982 a British Airways passenger jet flew into its plume. The engines were choked by the ash and the aircraft fell thousands of feet before the...
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Smiles better
(Photograph) - Anthony Clare gave this year's Happiness Lecture at the University of Birmingham last week. He may have failed to enter into the spirit of things completely since his title was "The...
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Lawyers seeking Euro bridges
Pan-European understanding and collaboration may be looming large in the minds of most professionals, but in the case of lawyers in the United Kingdom and across the Continent it is more a matter of...
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Tenure law angers lecturers
Alberta has sounded alarm bells on campuses by becoming the first province in Canada to restrict academic tenure. The Conservative government's latest adult education policy obliges all post-...
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Oxford quizzed over doctorate to professor
Cafas, the academic standards campaign group, is to question Oxford University about a doctorate awarded to a Glasgow professor of paediatric neurology after learning that the book that formed his...
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Mature approach steadily gains ground
The experience of mature students in the 1990s has changed radically from that of previous decades. It is now a misnomer to talk about "non-traditional" students, quite simply because in some...
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Unions push for 10 per cent
Australian academics have launched a campaign to win a 10 per cent pay rise and improve their working conditions over the next two years. Professors will earn more than Aus$90,000 a year (Pounds 43,...
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Report reveals college warfare
A row has broken out over the administration of Llismatusarfik, the University of Greenland. A report by PLS Consult, a Danish consultancy, for the Greenland government, describes conditions at the...
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Students warned off
Ivorian Security Minister, Gaston Quassenan Kone has reminded student leaders in the Cote d'Ivoire that their union is illegal, and all its activities banned. The four leading members of the...
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Judges reverse Jeffries's appeal
The case of Leonard Jeffries, the New York professor who was demoted three years ago after a fiercely antisemitic speech, has been reopened by the United States Supreme Court. Last week the justices...
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Plagiarist professor stripped of title
Else Kay Hoffmann, an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen's August Kroh Institute, was stripped of her doctorate last week because she copied other researchers' written works. An...
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Return of the native
Rita Levi Montalcini lives in a top-floor apartment in Rome, five minutes walk from the university and the National Research Council. The grande dame of Italian scientific research is protected from...
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Saudi promises aid to Albania
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Islamic Affairs, Abdullah Bin Abd al-Mushin al-Turki, last week promised extensive aid to education in Albania. During discussions with Albania's education minister, al-...
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Super-ministry links research and industry
A "super-ministry" of education and research has been created by the incoming German conservative-liberal coalition government -- part of a drive for closer co-operation between academic research and...
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Delors keeps his secret
France's best-kept publishing secret of the year -- a book on Jacques Delors in the build-up to the presidential election -- took Paris by surprise last week. It was the work of an academic,...