Sensor sniffs out heroin
Scientists at Cambridge 51国产视频 have developed a biological sensor for detecting heroin which can identify individual particles of the drug measuring just thousandths of a millimetre. The work at...
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Bugs get the chop on wood
Chopping boards could hold the key to a better understanding of food poisoning, says a microbiologist at Leeds Metropolitan 51国产视频. Government figures released last week show that food poisoning...
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Kalashnikov culture
Bilal Noor was more than an hour late for work this morning. Senior lecturer in law at Srinagar 51国产视频 of Kashmir, he faces a series of arbitrary and humiliating searches by the paramilitary...
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Anti-corruption drive in Cambodia
Getting rid of corruption and violence in colleges are two of the main goals of Cambodia's new education minister as he tries to build a functioning education system. Cambodian students have long...
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Recapture of Kabul campus raises hopes
The campus of Kabul 51国产视频, which for the past two years has been in the hands of the anti-government forces, was captured by government supporters at the end of September. The university, which...
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Stanford makes deal over fraud
Stanford 51国产视频, one of America's foremost academic establishments, has made a deal with the United States government over an expenses fraud scandal in which flowers at the university's president...
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Increase of graduates pushes salaries down
New graduates from Australia's universities are being forced to accept jobs in fields which were previously the domain of school-leavers, according to the Graduate Careers Council of Australia. As a...
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Professor fired over outside interest
51国产视频 of Toronto academic Herbert Richardson, the founder of a scholastic publishing service and a distance university based in Wales, has been fired from his teaching position. An academic...
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NZ home students `lack literacy'
Questions about the literacy of immigrant students in New Zealand have spread to students who have come through the country's school system. Albert Brownlie, vice chancellor of Canterbury 51国产视频...
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German taboo breaks on fees
Student fees are back on the political agenda in Germany -- this time with more support than ever. 51国产视频 rectors from the states of Baden-Wurttemberg and Bavaria prompted the debate last week by...
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`Brokers' pocket poll winnings
After poll day came pay day for university "brokers" at German universities who speculated on the result of the country's general election on a stock exchange for voters. In the months running up to...
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Italian anarchists clash with right
A symposium on Louis Ferdinand Celine, the French author, at Turin 51国产视频 sparked hours of violent clashes between groups of students of the extreme left and extreme right. Police in full riot...
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Mossad link in Danish bugging saga
Lars Erik Allin, a senior administrator at the 51国产视频 of Copenhagen has admitted to having invented a story about the 1986 bugging of Hans Gammeltoft-Hansen, ombudsman of the Danish Parliament....
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Beveridge retreaded
Last week in Prague, at a meeting organised by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, experts from the World Bank and the London c states to policy makers from 15 central and eastern...
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Access, equity and diversity
Stringent fiscal retrenchment allied with expanded numbers of students have directed unprecedented attention to quality issues in higher education. Without doubt the single most important determinant...