Fraud ends on sick note
Allegations that Greek students have faked illness, backed by forged medical certificates provided by eminent doctors, in order to transfer from universities abroad to ones at home have led to...
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Corrupt baroni meet their match
Semiologist Umberto Eco is among 77 leading Italian academics who have appealed to the country's new university minister to stamp out fixing exams in favour of powerful professors' proteges. In an...
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Party win leads to musical chairs
Higher degrees in Bulgaria are suspended temporarily because of a new law which opposition MPs say will lead to the "recommunisation of higher learning". The law repeals an Act of December 1992...
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University for senior citizens
Student Gunter Honicke became a local celebrity when he completed his MA in history at the University of Hamburg, Germany, in a near record-breaking nine semesters. The secret of his success? Age....
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Uneven results of a colonial legacy
The universities of Singapore and Malaya have gone in very different directions since their separation in 1962. It is hard to believe that the premier universities in Singapore and Malaysia share a...
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Scientist wins religious prize
An Australian-based physicist, Paul Davies, has won the Aus$1.45 million (Pounds 725,000) Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, the religious equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Professor Davies, a...
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...and time for decisions
Higher education is in a different position from further education. The period of "consolidation" imposed by the Government has at least provided stability. The funding machinery is up and running....
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Bid to curb v-cs' pay deals
The high salary packages negotiated by Australian vice chancellors have alarmed the nation's academics. Now university staff want to limit any further increase to the Aus$20 million (Pounds 10...
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Course teaches living with Aids
A cinema professor is teaching Canada's only interdisciplinary Aids course. Thomas Waugh, of Montreal's Concordia University, has been teaching the course since September. Some of his students are...
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Minorities back on the agenda
Debate on affirmative action is hotting up in the United States. President Clinton has ordered a federal review of affirmative action programmes and Congress is planning to consider two Bills which...
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Isolation and cost batter rural learning
A growing crisis in rural adult education is being caused by lack of resources and the diversity and isolation of communities, a series of case studies by the University of Sussex has found....
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Babies used in research trials without consent
More than 50 babies referred with their parents to a paediatric team currently attached to Keele University were involved without their parents' knowledge in a previously undisclosed research project...
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Kicking a long-term habit
Britain's first professor of addiction took up his post this month, in a move which he hopes will break down taboos over the role of addictions research in informing public policy. John Strang is...
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Sandflies bred in tropic of Keele
Keele University researchers are running an international investigation into the sandfly parasite which causes the debilitating - and in some cases deadly - liver and skin disease leishmaniasis,...
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Marshes salt of the earth
British scientists are attempting to recreate a 20-hectare salt marsh that has undergone massive marine erosion. Scientists from the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology are focussing on a salt marsh at...