Management-speak for Poland
Polish universities, overgoverned by generations of academics tied to a rigid career structure, should be opened up to professionals with management experience, according to the first Organisation of...
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Thinktank on African slave isle
In 1987, a group of visionary South African intellectuals, business people and exiled African National Congress leaders incensed the government by getting together in Dakar, Senegal, and other West...
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Bar violates US anti-monopoly laws
The mighty American Bar Association agreed last week to change its procedures for approving law schools after a justice department investigation showed they had led to inflated salaries for law...
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Quebec's rector quits after row
The rector of the University of Quebec at Rimouski has resigned amid a political row over the establishment of a rival institution. Marc-Andre Dionne resigned in his second term following what he...
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New York restricts open-door policy
Twenty-five years ago the City University of New York took allcomers from around the world who swarmed into America via the Big Apple and managed to graduate from high school. That open admissions...
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Racial entry quotas to stay
The governing board of the University of California is not now to consider a proposal to abandon a cornerstone of affirmative action - admitting students on racial grounds. Black governing board...
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Asians take pride in a place
Students who were born in Asia are winning places in New South Wales universities at up to three times the rate of their Australian or European-born counterparts, possibly because their parents place...
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Chemicals get under the skin
The skin absorbs virtually any chemical that touches it, new research shows. This overturns the traditional view that it keeps out most substances. Some chemicals, such as the aromatherapy oil...
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Plymouth gets oar in on satellite
NASA plans to launch a new satellite later this year which scientists worldwide will use to assemble important environmental information, based on the colour of the sea. The project, called SeaWiFS (...
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Springing to history's defence
Bournemouth University has established a national resource centre dealing with history of defence electronics. It comes under the department of conservation sciences and aims to contribute to the...
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Genetic clue to MS found
Southampton University medical researchers have made a discovery in their search for genetic clues to multiple sclerosis. The disease affects around 80,000 people in the United Kingdom and two...
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Ozone blamed for shorter crops
Air pollution in the fast-growing cities of the third world may be stunting their food crops by 40 per cent, researchers at Imperial College have found. This poses serious problems because the...
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Cash calls tune for admissions
Access to higher education is becoming "access by ability to pay" throughout western, central and eastern Europe, according to a study of under-representation in European higher education. "Other...
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Police probe fake racist letter
More than 200 copies of an extreme anti-Semitic letter falsely claiming to be from the warden of Lincoln Theological College have been sent to police by incensed recipients. College warden Canon...
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Science 'losing its cutting edge'
Big changes in the way science is practised is leading to a new framework for the production of knowledge that could mean a decline in scientific objectivity, according to physicist and science...