All shook up
Never one to say nay to a good idea, De Montfort University has built up what it believes to be the biggest database in the world on headshaking in horses. This frustrating summertime condition,...
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Going underground
Not satisfied with the opportunity to reduce undergraduates to quivering wrecks in seminars, three academics at the universities of Durham and Teesside have ventured further afield to conduct...
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A dying Eco
It's a good job that Umberto Eco, Italy's most famous intellectual and director of the department of semiotics at the University of Bologna, is a philosophical sort of chap. One of his academic...
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The name game
More suggestions for the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals' new moniker come from Dick Leigh, chair of lecturers' union Natfhe at the University of Westminster. He proposes Top HE Staff...
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David Hargreaves
When he was chief inspector of the Inner London Education Authority in the 1980s, David Hargreaves referred to teaching as "a grumbling profession". His attacks on teacher trainers, educational...
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On the move
Abner Weiss, incoming rabbi of the Western Marble Arch Synagogue in London, has been appointed principal of the London School of Jewish Studies. Timothy Williamson, professor of logic and metaphysics...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Edinburgh is awarding honorary degrees to: Grahame Bulfield, director and chief executive of the Roslin Institute (DSc); John Colquhoun, sports journalist and former rector of the...
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Eyewitness
After a decade of civil war, Papua New Guinea's island province of Bougainville has been granted autonomy from Port Moresby. A new interim government was sworn in last month, but there will be no...
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New York
A Columbia University student who falsely claimed extra time to finish assignments on the grounds that his brother had been killed in a car accident died last week after jumping in front of a train....
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St Petersburg
Russia's federal education ministry has reinstated Yuriy Savelev as rector of the Baltic State Technical University. He was suspended in March on the orders of federal education minister Vladimir...
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Brussels
The European Commission has approved 117 new grants made under the Jean Monnet Project, which aims to fund academic studies, centres and chairs devoted to studying the process of European integration...
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Colleges face taxing time
The introduction of a new 10 per cent goods and services tax in Australia on July 1 is expected to cost the nation's universities more than A$40 million (Pounds 15 million), while ongoing annual...
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Studying where sharks are safe
One of the most remote populated islands on the planet, a former US Navy base in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, was the site of the decisive second world war Battle of Midway. Four Japanese...
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Maximum award paid out for unfair sacking
A jury in San Jose has found that Stanford University senior researcher Colleen Crangle was fired in retaliation for complaints of sex discrimination and has ordered Stanford to pay her $545,000 -...
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Life in saddle not bad for you
Good news for equestrians - riding is not bad for your health. The first analysis of whole-body vibrations for riders has found that the forces exerted on the spine are not likely to cause damage....