Students put peace politics first
University students have historically played an active role in politics, often in the vanguard of the movement for change. For students at Birzeit University on the West Bank, politics, in the shape...
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New strings for old craft
The Chinese government recently established a centre for the production of European classical string instruments in Beijing. Its director learned the craft of making violins, violas, cellos and...
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Excellent marks for S. Africans
Forty South African scientists have received an "A" rating as world leaders in their fields. For the first time one of them, Christina Mynhardt of the distance-learning University of South Africa, is...
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Faraday base seeks buyer
The British Antarctic Survey has given the Ukrainian government until the end of April to decide whether it wants to take over the Faraday base in Graham Land. It has told the Ukrainians that if a...
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Fort Hare forges Australian links
Two Australian universities last week signed co-operative agreements with a South African tertiary institution in what is being hailed as the beginning of a new stage in relations between the two...
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Presidential eye on the dorm
The Nelson Mandela building is a popular name for British student unions, or perhaps even the Yasser Arafat building, but at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, the student union is housed in the Frank...
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Tigray turns to Bangor
Preventing famine in northern Ethiopia is the aim of a Pounds 190,000 World Bank-funded partnership programme between Bangor University and Tigray's Mekelle College. The three-year-old college is...
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Russian voters revealed
Researchers at Keele and Glasgow universities are to prise open one of Russia's deepest secrets - how its people vote. Matthew Wyman of Keele's politics department is being funded with Pounds 52,000...
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Motor sets satellites on cheap orbit
A rocket motor being developed by researchers at Surrey University looks set to help slash the cost of moving small satellites from one orbit to another. The 350N "hybrid" motor has already been...
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Warwick team rescues mosaics
Warwick University archaeologists are leading the delicate operation to rescue two ancient and beautiful Byzantine mosaics discovered slowly falling into the sea on Turkey's Black Sea coast. The 1,...
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Minorities locked out
Local authorities and housing associations have largely failed to address the housing needs of black and other ethnic minority elderly people, according to University of Warwick research. The report...
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Riddle of the missing Asians in UK professional football
A research centre devoted to the study of soccer is investigating one of the great anomalies of the British game - why there are no Asian players in the professional league. "Either Asians are not...
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Contract staff win appeal on status
The Association of University Teachers is claiming an Employment Appeal Tribunal decision as an important victory in its campaign to improve the status of thousands of contract staff. Glasgow...
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Folk fight to fill the house
Earlier this year a party planned to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Bristol Folk House looked like turning into a wake. But thanks to a number of donations, the party is still on. In October...
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Cash for Irish sensors
The International Fund for Ireland is to back a major project linking Ulster's two universities and two in the Irish Republic. The Biomedical and Environmental Sensor Technology (BEST) Centre is...