Spanish men face up to fear
Spain's ESCI business school is to run the country's first men-only course on fear management and communication. The four-day course will run next month at the school, which is part of Barcelona's...
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China MBAs fail on quality
China's severe shortage of trained business managers has led to great demand for home-grown MBA courses but, in the rush to meet demand, poor quality assurance is causing problems for graduates and...
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Research spending cuts feared
The planned doubling of the European Union research budget could lead to cuts by national governments in their own programmes, the EU research commissioner-designate has warned. Speaking at a...
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Sezer sacks Istanbul head
Turkish president Ahmet Necdet Sezer has sacked the rector of the University of Istanbul for failing to enforce judicial rulings - an action the rector has denounced as politically motivated. Kemal...
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Raised eyebrows at job offers for the Aristides
Deposed Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his wife, Mildred, have been appointed honorary research fellows in the politics department at the distance-learning University of South Africa (...
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Guide explains how to handle religious issues
French university presidents have for the first time issued a guide to the rules governing secularism in higher education. While controversial legislation introduced last month banned state-school...
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Cloud adoption scheme saves institute's finances
A scheme that allows members of the public to "adopt" weather systems has raised more than £,000 for a German institute. Students at Berlin's Free University's Meteorological Institute invited the...
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Sleep till the end of your daze...
... it will help your lectures and cut your mortality risk, says Kevin Fong If you deprive rats of sleep for long enough, they die. They just waste away. Nobody is sure why, but it is a safe...
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Ready to jump through hoops?
If you think your academic work is ripe for the commercial world, think long and hard before you make the leap. Harriet Swain offers advice to would-be entrepreneurs. Ever thought of putting all that...
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My worst nightmare
Back from a field trip, I found an email from my MPhil student's external examiner saying he would be in Portsmouth that day. The student had arranged the viva behind my back. I rang her in London to...
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A stage for high-grade work
Practice-based research at postgraduate level has emerged out of a shift from the idea that only text-based knowledge can be studied at a high level. This has transformed study in the performing arts...
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Teacher audit
Name : Pauline Corbett Age : Old enough to remember the thrill of sitting in the local public library reference section on a wet Saturday afternoon reading some of the weightier works on its shelves...
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New UHI deans bring title bid closer
The UHI Millennium Institute is moving closer to its goal of university status in 2007 with a series of senior appointments. Until now, its three faculties have been headed by part-time deans who...
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Who's in, who's out?
Clinical trials that could lead to the repair of spinal-cord injuries are scheduled to begin within three years at University College London, with the arrival of an internationally renowned research...
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Job drives and revamps signal shift in gear for RAE
Universities are gearing up for the 2008 research assessment exercise with a bold programme of recruitment, restructuring and redundancies. A number of institutions are revamping research activities...