Angry medic doles out top marks to all
A medical professor at Bari University in southern Italy has given all his students top marks in their examinations in a protest against the favouritism endemic in Italian medical schools. Angered by...
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Protestmakes splash
Eight archaeologists last week plunged into the Seine from a bridge in Paris in a mock mass suicide to protest against reforms they claim will endanger archaeological research and destroy their...
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Qatar's Iraq gesture challenges US grip
A tiny Gulf state is to challenge US universities' domination of the rebuilding of Iraqi higher education. Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Abdullah Al-Misnad, first lady of Qatar and Unesco's special envoy...
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NZ could limit Maori intake
Spectacular growth by a Maori higher education institution may be dramatically reversed as a result of a New Zealand government initiative to control the rise in student numbers. Under a plan...
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Netting juicy flies of science
Galileo's Finger
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The divine proportion of pineapples
The Golden Ratio
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The fight for America's 'Serengeti'
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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Changes that cost the earth
Making Global Trade Work for People - A World without Walls
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a feminist short story about madness: "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and...
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Travellers' spicy tales of slaves and silks
Origins of the European Economy
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Easy access to a world of opportunity
International Trade and the World Economy
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Dash of liberalism topped with fancy
The Ideas that Conquered the World
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Laurie Taylor column
All students ought to be aware that they are the true spark of the transformation of the world - Ben Okri, THES , June 20 Are we agreed that candidate 26,125 should be a lower? You'd like a vote?...
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Leader: 'Dumbed-down' courses sell students short
All too few opportunities exist for academics and those concerned with universities or intellectual life more generally to come together for an extended discussion. Usually, such debates are squeezed...
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Leader: US race ruling welcome in quest for equality
Not for a quarter of a century has the higher education world awaited a Supreme Court judgment so keenly. If, as many expected, Monday's vote had gone against the University of Michigan's right to...