Not greedy, merely needy
Tertiary education is key to future economic success so where's the funding? asks Bryan Gould Universities have few political friends. On the right, they are seen as constantly holding out their...
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Don's diary
Monday Not a good start to my first day in a new job. I arrive at work to find I have left my official university tie trailing out of the back door of the car, dragging it through the rain and grime...
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Eyewitness: Australian elections
For the first time in a decade, a major political party in Australia has placed education at the top of its election agenda. Labor leader Kim Beazley has promised a Labor government would spend...
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Help make trade rules or get stung at market
As the WTO's Doha conference opens, Eric Froment says universities must ensure their interests are looked after. Debate about globalisation and the role of the World Trade Organisation is common and...
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Why I think the web will alter human evolution
A few million years ago our ancestors let loose a new evolutionary process. By learning to imitate each other, they unwittingly created the first memes. Those memes - the habits, skills, songs and...
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The QAA's thoroughly bad Apel
A code of practice section on accrediting prior learning dismays Geoffrey Alderman. It is amazing what you come across on the streets of Manhattan these days. I recently happened upon the draft of a...
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Free hand that draws inspiration from peers
A Cologne design course where no one tells students what to do is a teaching model. Pat Leon reports. Cologne Design School is still turning teaching upside down ten years after its creation. It was...
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Students give top marks to the trained
Giving lecturers teacher training benefits everyone, according to an international study by Graham Gibbs and Martin Coffey. Most new lecturers in the United Kingdom are expected to take an in-service...
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Answer to a question of trust?
Can continuing professional development in fields such as medicine restore public faith? asks Claire Sanders. At a time when scandals such as the Bristol baby deaths and the collapse of the Bank of...
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In-vitro drug testing puts spin into Spain
Spain has the expertise to thrive in the world of spin-offs but red tape chokes the way, Rebecca Warden reports. Spain's first science park is in business. Eight pharmaceutical and medical companies...
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Ugandan president drags feet over law
Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has failed to appoint chancellors at the country's four public universities despite a new law that requires him to do so. Historically, the head of state has been...
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£5bn needed to match rivals
The Treasury has advised universities to stress their role in Britain's future prosperity rather than the funding gap when they bid for money in the spending review later this month. New studies...
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Next week
NEWS Academic refugees:what will the new system do for them? FEATURES Sally Pomme Clayton journeys to Alaska in search of the ancient art of storytelling Research: Bath's archaeological catastrophe...
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For the record
UK retention rate is second only to Japan The National Audit Office will praise the university sector for absorbing large increases in student numbers without corresponding increases in funding in a...
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Subject to contract
Both supervisor and postgrad know where they stand if there's an agreement in place, says Ron Iphofen