Bucked trend fizzes up
Speakers at a combined Royal Society/British Academy conference this week were fizzing with excitement. The conference was the Evolution of Social Behaviour Patterns in Primates and Man - and the...
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No more fool's gold
The National Union of Students' decision to review its battle cry for a return of historical grant levels can be seen as its own Clause Four debate. As in the Labour Party's modernising review, it is...
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Deakin student quits after victimisation claim
A 34-year-old Englishman who made national headlines in Australia last year after threatening to take Deakin University to the Trade Practices Commission for misleading advertising, has quit his...
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Ingenuity can conquer all in the new Russia
Russian universities are embracing the opportunities offered by the country's market reforms and new freedoms to link with higher education in the rest of the world. The country's changing structures...
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Liberation's front
As world leaders try to breathe fresh impetus into the stalled Palestinian peace process, the new state is striving for economic regeneration and a return to social and political stability. The Oslo...
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Protesting Australian university students
(Photograph) - Better deal: An end to postgraduate fees was one demand made by thousands of protesting Australian university students in national demonstrations last month. They also demanded a...
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Statues of Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith
(Photograph) - Face lift: the newly-cleaned and re-erected statues of Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith have been unveiled by Irish Taoiseach John Bruton to mark the completion of the Pounds 700,000...
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Moldovan history bid goes up in flames
Plans by Moldova's ministry of education to introduce a course entitled "History of Moldova" were scrapped last week following ten days of student strikes, protests, rallies and the public burning of...
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Liberal professor to fight Berlusconi
Italian general elections, probable in the summer or autumn, will see a mild-mannered economics professor from Bologna pitted against the media-might of right-wing television tycoon Silvio Berlusconi...
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Graduate prospects worsen
Employment prospects for French graduates worsened dramatically between the late 1980s and early 1990s, according to a survey by the government-sponsored research centre Cereq (Centre d'Etudes et de...
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Report condemns chaos in Greenland
A dispute over the administration of the University of Greenland remains unresolved after a year. Greenland's government gave the university council until last October to propose ways of improving...
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UK boozing may not be as bad as French
The British habit of occasional alcoholic binges may be healthier than the French habit of continuous low-level drinking when it comes to preventing oesophagal cancer. The Biochemical Society heard...
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Swedish dental work could aid the disfigured
Pioneering dental research started in Sweden in the 1960s is now helping to rehabilitate patients who have lost limbs or part of their face. Per-Ingvar Branemark, head of the institute of applied...
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UK ignores dissociative disorders
The controversial illness, multiple personality disorder, goes undiagnosed and untreated in the United Kingdom despite being present in about one in 14 patients who use psychological and psychiatric...
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Stroke patients could gain from turtle studies
Treatment for strokes may be revolutionised by a drug that exploits the ability of turtles to survive without oxygen for several hours without brain damage, the Biochemical Society heard this week,...