Royal Society fellows
The Royal Society has announced the election of 42 new fellows and six foreign members from the fields of science, engineering and technology. John Barrow, professor in the department of mathematics...
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Oxford Brookes faces £1m claim
Oxford Brookes University faces a compensation claim that could approach £1 million from osteopathy students who say it did not equip them properly for a career. Students who joined the osteopathy...
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Civil war 'kills one teacher a week'
THES reporters survey a worrying human rights situation in Latin America One teacher or lecturer in Colombia has been killed every week so far this year according to Fecode, the country's teachers'...
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Court frees suspect in murder of academic
THES reporters survey a worrying human rights situation in Latin America A Guatemalan appeals court has overturned the conviction of a suspected author of the plot to kill academic Myrna Mack Chang...
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Nudes secure union cover
Nude models at a US art school have voted to join a union as a means of forcing the university to pay attention to professional hazards such as cold rooms and charcoal dust. Administrators at Moore...
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Moonlighting stars exposed
An Italian student magazine has been inundated with complaints about academics who neglect their teaching duties to spend large amounts of time on contract work in private universities. University...
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Religious president resigns after report reveals bogus MA
The president of a Christian university in the Southern US has resigned after a student journalist assigned to write a profile about him discovered that he had never received his claimed masters...
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Ottawa
Canada's Institutes of Health Research will accept funding applications for embryonic stem-cell research despite the lack of a definitive legal framework.
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Nairobi
Police who found a cache of arms in a student's room at the University of Nairobi, said some had been used in robberies. The main suspect is still at large.
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Brussels
The European Commission has launched a biotechnology website for debates about the field and related issues. It also includes a database of experts, a library and other information. Detail: http://...
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Rome
Italy's National Research Council, National Astrophysics Institute and the Italian Space Agency are under emergency government administration pending reorganisation. Last week, the head of the...
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Bouake
Students in Côte d'Ivoire's second largest university town protested against the invalidation of this academic year because of disruption caused by civil war.
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'Big idea' plucked from a bad old Tory ideology
The Conservatives' latest plan to win votes serves neither higher education nor society, says Margaret Hodge Last week saw another bungled attempt by the Tories to recapture voters' confidence. As...
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Bluffing brothers are two of a kind
"Feeling lucky, Jim?" David Leigh's question was more loaded than a gentle inquiry as to his brother's frame of mind and inclination to gamble. It was a ploy: an opening jab in psychological warfare...
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In the news: Bridget Ogilvie
Dame Bridget Ogilvie has had her differences with the Royal Society. She resigned as chair of the Committee on Public Understanding of Science in 2002, accusing the society of fighting a new strategy...