Make out to make marks
More than a quarter (28 per cent) of students in Germany say they would have sex with a professor or lecturer if they thought it would improve their grades, according to a Playboy magazine survey of...
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Plans for £200m radiation-source centre under review
Researchers at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire are waiting to discover whether plans for a £200 million centre for radiation-source technology will be given the go-ahead. The original bid for...
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Scotland eyes US in major overhaul
Wendy Alexander, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, this week launched a review of higher education and pledged it would be put at the top of the Scottish Parliament's agenda....
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Students face visa delays
While first-year students bound for British universities from Pakistan face visa delays, the threat of a six-month moratorium on international students entering the United States has been lifted....
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Cash will aid local efforts
The University of Bath will use its share of £13.7 million knowledge transfer funding to create an enterprise and innovation centre, while the University of Leeds celebrates the opening of its £2.4...
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'Dubious' e-outfit sues Oz for £10m
A distance-education institution based on Norfolk Island is suing the Australian Council for Private Education and Training for defamation. Greenwich University, which offers degree courses over the...
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For the record
Lecturers attack UUK over ombudsman plans Lecturers’ leaders have attacked vice-chancellors for excluding staff complaints from their plans for a higher education ombudsman. Liz Allen, of lecturers’...
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Pioneer may smooth path for third-generation networks
Edinburgh University postgraduate Ben Hounsell, 26, has set up a spin off company that aims to make hand-held devices such as phones and digital cameras more flexible. The pioneering H3P technology...
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The shape of success
Loughborough University's only student spin-off company has signed a global licensing deal with an American brewer, writes Tim Greenhalgh. Ellula Sounds has produced what is believed to be the world'...
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Jisc urged to 'map need' for e-books
Book publishers want to conduct market research in conjunction with universities to get a better idea of the demand for e-books in UK higher and further education. A report from the Joint Information...
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IT news in brief
Real-time money The University of Teesside's Virtual Reality Centre has won a £675,000 grant from the Higher Education Innovation Fund to set-up a real-time interaction centre. Part of the money will...
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Scots join hands for innovation
Glasgow University this week launched an MSc in entrepreneurship, funded through the Scottish Institute for Enterprise, which aims to embed an entrepreneurial spirit in higher education. Glasgow set...
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Wake up and sharpen your competitive edge
It's high time Europe pulled its socks up when it comes to management training, insists John Quelch. The MBA has become the educational standard for United States business. This has not yet happened...
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Soapbox: A nation held hostage by terrorists
Academics consider Afghanistan's crisis and responses to the war on terrorism: Afghanistan. Our nation has been taken hostage by an international terrorist network. There is no infrastructure in...
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Soapbox: Uncertain returns on terrorists' money trail
Academics consider Afghanistan's crisis and responses to the war on terrorism: money laundering. There is rough agreement that the total cost of setting up and carrying out the September 11 massacres...