US law schools lose anti-military battle
US universities that accept federal funding must allow military recruiters on their campuses even if they object to the military's ban on openly gay people, the Supreme Court has ruled. The court...
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Law to tackle cheats
Sweden's education ministry is drawing up plans that would effectively force universities and colleges of higher education to investigate every allegation of cheating by academic staff. The...
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Balkans to get a slice of Bologna
European education ministers are this week considering how to persuade governments in southeastern Europe and the western Balkans to give universities more autonomy and allow more co-operation with...
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Lecturers lash Thai PM
University lecturers in Thailand are playing a key role in undermining the popularity of Thaksin Shinawatra, the Prime Minister. Academics have queued up to denounce the Prime Minister after his...
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Paris
French students are threatening more protests over job contracts that allow people under 26 to be fired more easily after President Jacques Chirac this week backed their introduction. The student...
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Washington DC
The American Association of University Professors has protested that FBI apologies are inadequate for the behaviour of two sheriff's deputies assisting the bureau's Joint Terrorism Task Force after...
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Hanover, NH
Tuck Business School at Dartmouth College is to offer up to 12 MBA scholarships for European students.
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Stop counting beans, start planting trees
Government shortsightedness and contempt is destroying our once-great education system, argues Peter Atkins The combination of misunderstanding, pettiness, shortsightedness and contempt that drives...
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Alison Wolf
There are 21 copies of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto on our library shelves and 13 copies of Capital . The shelves are pretty much where they stay. From time to time, I glance at how many have been...
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Top marks for cunning?
How much might Natfhe members be offered to be bussed into old universities past jeering Association of University Teachers' picket lines? It is a prospect raised by one vice-chancellor who...
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Just a commons or garden idea
Ever-more imaginative names for university libraries have been dreamt up to impress potential students: "learning resource centres"; "learning labs"; "advanced study facilities" (OK, we made that one...
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A shadowy figure indeed
It seems the Tories have not forgotten about science after all. Ever since Robert Key, the generously sized choral-singing MP for Salisbury, was moved from the post last year, no one in the party has...
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No rest for the indebted
Officials at the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England have revealed that as part of their annual conference next month, there will be presentations involving students to show "HE in action"....
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A hirstian encounter
THE GIANT SQUID Natural History Museum, London. Booking on hourly tours essential. The first thing that strikes you is its sheer size. The cloudy tank, the colour of water-worn glass, stretches...
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Unselfish genius continues to inspire
For 30 years, Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene has challenged readers like no other academic book, says Marian Stamp Dawkins I haven't lived with the author of The Selfish Gene for nearly 25 years...