Hunger for public lectures satisfied
France's millennium celebration of knowledge and learning, the Université de Tous les Savoirs, is to make a comeback following its success last year. It will resume for three weeks in July with daily...
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Courses mirror the world of business
While Europe's leaders are pressing on with the enlargement of the European Union despite this month's Irish referendum setback, business schools across Europe are forging alliances both within and...
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Program could nurture nature
A computer program based on game theory could help predict the impact of human behaviour on different wildlife species. Manchester University biological scientists Paul Higgs and Alan McKane are...
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Swimming pool and labs in show of best buildings
An exhibition showcasing 41 of the best new buildings in the United Kingdom higher education sector is running in London. The Higher Education Design Quality Forum organised the exhibition, asking...
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Distance learning beamed to homes
The home satellite dishes that deliver films and football to British front rooms are now enabling students to take an MBA. Swiss firm the Fantastic Corporation has developed a system that allows...
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Scots' system is bad for business
Three leading players in commercialising academic research have told an influential Scottish parliamentary committee that existing methods for encouraging commercialisation are inadequate. Sir David...
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Students get a handy tool
While a growing number of institutions are requiring first-year students to come armed with laptop computers, the University of South Dakota is opting for their much more compact counterparts -...
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Circle boosts novice tycoons
Cambridge University is one of six institutions that have formed a network to help convince students with bright ideas that starting their own knowledge-based business is a viable option. The...
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Finding the glue that can fix cracks in our society
In a world fragmented by globalisation, learning is key to social cohesion, say Andy Green and John Preston Rising material prosperity and a record of sound economic management may have ensured new...
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Star Turn: John Owen
Sue Law meets a sculptor who mucks about in car parks to show industrial design students how curves in cars matter. John Owen has a distinctly hands-on approach to teaching. A sculptor who trained at...
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Pay rises will be linked to performance
University staff must accept performance-related pay in return for a rise, according to the outgoing president of Universities UK. Sir Howard Newby, vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton...
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For the record
Queen's honour sparks diplomatic row George Bain, Canadian-born vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, is at the centre of a diplomatic row after being awarded a knighthood in the Queen's...
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Bugs Bunny experiment releases Mickey Mouse memories
The power of advertising to "rewrite" childhood memories has been exposed with the help of Bugs Bunny. A group of students was prompted by a phoney magazine advertisement to recall a meeting with the...
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Access rhetoric fails to impress chiefs
The government's rhetoric on widening participation has not been matched by appropriate action, higher education leaders warned this week. A Universities UK conference on widening participation heard...
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Medicine urged to confront race bias
Ethnic minority doctors face discrimination from the moment they apply to medical school to the day they retire, according to a report out this week from the King's Fund, an independent think-tank....