Child benefit traps report
Ministers have "softened" and delayed publishing proposals to cut child benefit in order to fund a unified national student-support system so as to avoid alienating voters in this month's local...
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Lords hear call for clinical trials of cannabis
The House of Lords committee considering the case for legalising cannabis for medical use heard of its positive benefits last week. Roger Pertwee, president of the International Cannabinoid Research...
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Budget cuts fear wanes
Australian universities have escaped further cuts in spending next financial year. The federal government's annual budget, announced last week, was designed to appease some of its strongest critics,...
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Forced to quit after shopping the boss
A bill to protect whistleblowers should soon be law, but few institutions are ready. Phil Baty reports The plight of Bonnie Tall was the catalyst for Richard Shepherd's Public Interest Disclosure...
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Whistleblowers to call the tune
A bill to protect whistleblowers should soon be law, but few institutions are ready. Phil Baty reports Universities and colleges have been reluctant to introduce effective procedures for dealing with...
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Aberdeen staff clear to run
Aberdeen University is encouraging its staff to play a part in the new Scottish parliament by reassuring them that their jobs will be held open for them if they become MSPs. Duncan Rice, Aberdeen's...
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Assessments 'destroy' HE
An Edinburgh University professor has condemned current teaching and research assessment methods as part of higher education's slide in "a Dutch auction towards disaster". Ged Martin, giving his...
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Dutch feel business grip tighten
The Dutch education ministry has announced plans for modernising universities to help smooth graduates' transition to working life. Education minister Jo Ritzen is harnessing businesses in a...
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Boro FC invests in sports science
While champions Arsenal, whose scientific approach to training and nutrition has been credited for much of their success this year, won only the eighth league and cup double in English football...
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Review by Net mooted
AN INDEPENDENT systems designer believes he has come up with a reproach-proof system of peer review, which could end claims of prejudice and secrecy in dishing out research money. The idea from Peter...
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Ice art
(Photograph) - Pippa Dickens tested her artistic response to the bleak and alien surroundings of Iceland thanks to a travel scholarship from the Edna Lumb Artistic Trust. Ms Lumb, a scholarship...
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New spin on a political prince
Many political commentators affect to see in Peter Mandelson, minister without portfolio, the consummate modern political Machiavellian, a "prince of darkness". It was a description that found little...
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Machiavelli 'an overused hero'
Citations from Machiavelli are being seriously overused by writers on management, argued a paper at the "Machiavelli at 500" conference. Terry Berrow, lecturer in strategic management at the...
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Speaking Volumes: Microcosmographia Academica
Graeme Davies on Frances Cornford's Microcosmographia Academica . I have in my bookshelf a presentation copy of Frances Cornford's Microcosmographia Academica, which bears on its...
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The pox that scars Eden
Life in the Balance