'Fourth-stream research is vital but difficult'
Blue skies or blue chip - which way should research go? Claire Sanders reports Minoo Patel, head of the School of Engineering, is keen to define and illustrate what Cranfield University means by...
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Model Cranfield caught in trap
Blue skies or blue chip - which way should research go? Claire Sanders reports Cranfield University finds itself at the heart of an uncomfortable contradiction in government policy. It works with...
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Welsh v-cs concerned about 'cuts' to budget
Welsh university heads have reacted angrily to "effective real-terms cuts" as allocations were unveiled this week by the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for Wales. Allocations for teaching for next...
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New boss ready to rattle Manchester
The preoccupation with variable tuition fees is a damaging distraction to the wider debate over the future of higher education, according to the incoming president of the newly expanded Manchester...
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Aussie students fight top-up fees
Students at universities in Queensland, South Australia and Victoria took action as governing councils considered a federal government option to increase fees by up to 25 per cent. More than 1,000...
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'Flawed' report riles elite
Two top New Zealand universities have resorted to the courts to stop publication of a report on research performance that makes comparisons with the UK. Auckland and Victoria universities claim the...
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Hawaii hopes to get blues
The University of Hawaii's department of tropical plant and soil sciences has embarked on a ten-year quest to develop the first blue orchid. Students and faculty in the department assist Hawaii's...
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12 Saudi liberals arrested
Five academics were among 12 Saudi Arabian liberals arrested in a countrywide purge last month, according to human rights agencies. One professor is said to have been detained while in the middle of...
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PM jumps gun with A$3bn vow
Brendan Nelson, Australia's education minister, has promised universities up to A$3 billion (£1.23 billion) extra in federal research grants if the Howard government is re-elected this year. Speaking...
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Fair-trade coffee earns York a bean
Canada's York University has unveiled its own brand of fair-trade coffee. Las Nubes, the Costa-Rican-grown coffee, will give the Toronto-based university a buzz while offering a novel way of...
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Visas open EU door
The European Commission has published compulsory legislation and voluntary guidelines for fast-track visas to allow citizens from non-European Union countries to undertake research in any member...
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Belarus president attacks rectors for not pushing Soviet-style dogma
Universities in Belarus are not meeting President Aleksander Lukashenko's expectations for the indoctrination of students in loyalty to the state. The president told university heads at a conference...
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Politics sidelines row over tenure
Italian government plans to curb academics' job security and open up half of posts to non-academic "experts" may be shelved as politicians concentrate on May's European elections and the run-up to...
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Crossing borders can be risky but rewarding
Interdisciplinarity is necessary and can lead to new insights but it must retain a critical edge, says Stephen Rowland The most exciting areas for research lie between and across disciplinary...
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Nancy Rothwell
UK scholars must look to partnerships to tackle European legislation that might have a detrimental effect on science Most academics are probably quite law-abiding citizens. We may be seduced...