Franchises fail to impress
Britain's reputation for academic excellence was again shaken this week when quality chiefs criticised two universities' overseas partnership arrangements. The Quality Assurance Agency has told...
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Upgrades queried by QAA
Quality chiefs have criticised the research-degree standards at London University's Queen Mary College, writes Phil Baty. An audit report from the Quality Assurance Agency warns that Queen Mary does...
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Concrete solution to climate change
While world leaders discuss global warming during United States President George Bush's European visit, scientists at Newcastle University are helping deal with its immediate consequences, writes...
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Exercise-shy kids to swell obesity figures
Children are leading increasingly inactive lives that could hold the seeds of a future epidemic of obesity, scientists have said. The warning follows a study of 38 Oxford secondary school pupils aged...
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Advisory format facing hurdles
Legislation, bias and a disregard for the unknown are holding back the government's new science advisory framework, writes Caroline Davis. Robin Grove-White, head of Lancaster University's Centre for...
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Don's Diary
Saturday In Minneapolis for a conference on child development. Some sessions are stimulating but am disheartened by the lack of interest in life outside the United States, other than a few Asian...
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Glittering prizes
The Royal Geographical Society has awarded: William Graf , of Arizona State University, the Founder's Medal ; Peter Dicken , of the University of Manchester, the Victoria Medal ; Linda McDowell , of...
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More ABC than IPA
An invitation to a seminar has arrived from the National Union of Students' commercial arm, NUS Services Ltd. It describes how one of the company's key roles is "to market products and services to...
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Selling that ol' uni time
Bournemouth University has hit on a novel way of using the summertime blues to recruit students. It is helping to fund the South Dorset Blues Appreciation Society's summer school, which offers adults...
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Eyewitness: Terror stalks Colombia's university campuses
Terrorists are targeting Colombia's public universities in the conflict between leftist guerrillas and rightist paramilitaries. Last month, car bombs near Bogotá's Universidad Nacional de Colombia...
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World view: Lessons of invisible college
Conferences help the US to chat to Europeans about antipathy to American policy, Dorothy Zinberg writes. The invisible college of the Middle Ages, often thought to have given rise to the British...
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Tale of a duo's faith in the Ivy League
Princeton University revives its Scottish connection on June 22 and simultaneously salutes the end of a remarkable chapter in American education. After almost 14 years as Princeton president, Harold...
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Extreme mob puts Danes on red alert
Roskilde University Centre, the University of South Denmark and the Panum Institute - Copenhagen University's faculty of health - are among Danish universities tightening security following threats...
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Overhaul promises to revive ambition
Germany's Social Democrat education minister, Edelgard Bulmahn, has scored a victory in her fight to introduce performance-related pay for university professors after the cabinet approved her reform...
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Heriott-Watt pact boosts spin-offs
Heriot-Watt University and a leading venture management group have forged a £12 million partnership to encourage academic spin-off companies. The five-year agreement is between Heriot-Watt and...