Minsk
The Belarusian Academy of Sciences has no president for the first time in its 76-year history. Alexander Lukashenko, the country's President, insists on being the only person in the country with the...
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Tirana
An agreement between Albania and Greece to produce joint university textbooks in history, geography and economics is at risk. The attempt to defuse contentious issues between the two states by...
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New York
A computer technician at the University of Georgia was apparently so upset at the result of the recent US presidential election that he shot himself at New York's Ground Zero.
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Howard prepares to wrest control
Melbourne. Australian higher education faces more upheaval as John Howard's re-elected Government pushes ahead with more reforms that will strip the states of their remaining powers over universities...
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ÌÇÐÄVlogless offered degree of respect
Graz. An Austrian newspaper campaigning for the homeless has set up a project that will allow those living on the streets to attend university lectures. The Graz-based newspaper Megaphon says...
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Group trawls for money to launch European polar research ship
A Europe-based consortium is seeking money to build a polar research ship as the European Commission considers promoting studies into the North Pole. If the commission approves the idea of a...
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Former rector tried over undeclared properties
Buenos Aires. A former rector of the University of Buenos Aires faces up to six years in prison for not declaring eight properties in the US, adding to the woes of Argentina's biggest university....
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Our wisdom is a seedbed for a new era of hope
Africa has had great universities. Higher education on our continent stretches back to Ancient Egypt, where the temples imparted knowledge not only to Africans, but also to many of those who were to...
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Nancy Rothwell
Depression has set in since George W. Bush won another four years, but every cloud has a silver lining. Last week began rather well. One of my PhD students passed his viva, my group was shortlisted...
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Don's diary: No escape from the suits
1970s 1971 : Take on part-time teaching at the local college. Seems like fun, and the students are much nicer than the "suits" I meet in the day job. 1972 : Interview for a full-time post. Principal...
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Raise your half-empty glass
Unions exist to stir things up, and often their leaders suffer from delusions of omnipotence. Not so Paul Mackney, general secretary of lecturers' union Natfhe, who gave guests at a House of Commons...
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Holy inappropriate?
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee will go to great lengths to court controversy. Even to Italy, it seems. Not content with stoking a row with the Government this week over open-...
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Be afraid...
Paul Boateng, the Treasury's chief secretary, may have been making smooth assurances to the Science and Technology Committee last week that his department is not trying to seize control of the UK...
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Seats of learning
Anyone who feels that research isn't glamorous clearly isn't working at the University of West of England or University College London. The two institutions announced this week that they have forged...
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Why I... believe drug prohibition is futile and should be scrapped
This is the second essay I have written on prohibition. My first was completed 50 years ago for a school history project. As a consequence of my grandfather having been the American federal judge who...