Cuts put brake on expansion
Israel's minister of education, Amnon Rubinstein, was this week trying to find savings of 151 million shekels (Pounds 33.5 million) in his ministry's spending to meet government expenditure cuts...
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Italy opts for state of academics
Half of the new Italian government - ten ministers out of 20 - are full-time or part-time university teachers. Not surprisingly, the new administration was immediately called il governo dei...
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France may restrict entry rights
A report on the future of French universities, commissioned by higher education minister Francois Fillon, raised a storm of protest when its contents were leaked to the press. Mr Fillon has now...
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The moral malaise
Where else can we say to the world 'remember the morality of the human condition' if not here." Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel was last week speaking at Auschwitz, 50 years after the liberation of the...
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Unesco plea for world's watchtower universities
The policy paper for change and development in higher education released by Unesco this week aims to provide a "shared platform of ideas" on the essential issues facing higher education around the...
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Destination USA for students
Overseas students are still flocking to the United States. Universities and colleges admitted an all-time high of almost 450,000 in the academic year 1993/94, but the rate of increase is slowing down...
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Wired up for words
Stroke victims, patients with neurological conditions, and people with cleft palates often need speech therapy. But often neither the therapist nor the client can identify the exact position of the...
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Civil servants' divided health
The health gap between social classes could in part result from differences in psychological well-being, according to a leading epidemiologist. Psychological factors may cause physical changes that...
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Ups and downs of wedlock
Illegitimacy in the 1850s was at least as high as it was in the early 1970s, according to a computer database that has enabled researchers at Staffordshire University to come up with a league table...
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Hidden power in bluebell woods
A remarkable discovery by British scientists offers the prospect of the humble bluebell wildflower making an important contribution in the treatment of diseases like HIV and certain cancers. For...
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Magnesium clue to asthma risk
The popularity of foods deficient in magnesium could provide the answer to why asthma is more common in developed rather than subsistence countries, according to medical researchers at Nottingham...
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The grass could be greener
Britain needs a complete rethink of the way it sees rural areas, according to Philip Lowe, director of the Centre for Rural Economy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. The centre, which...
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Decline of British social science sets in
The international representation of United Kingdom-authored papers, articles, notes and reviews in social science has declined markedly since 1985, according to a bibliometric analysis by researchers...
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Cardiff compact sealed
Cardiff Institute of Higher Education has just launched a compact with eight schools in South Glamorgan which should make degree and diploma courses more accessible to inner city pupils. Based on an...
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Abbey resumes full-time diploma habit
Newbattle Abbey College, Scotland's sole residential adult education college, whose core funding was axed by Government in 1989, will this year restore two full-time diploma courses. Since 1989, the...