A Chinese philosopher last month raised the stakes in an academic feud with an anti-fraud campaigner by challenging him to a science duel - to the death. The dispute began in April when Li Ming, a...
Australia's heads to be reorganised in a new industry-style group, says Geoff Maslen. The Australian Vice-chancellors' Committee is to be radically reshaped into a new company with a different name,...
The Indian Government has begun a massive expansion of higher education with the creation of 500,000 university and colleges places. Academics have welcomed the move, but there is concern that a...
The University of Bologna has introduced an ethical code to address issues such as discrimination, academic freedom, conflicts of interest, intellectual property, plagiarism, sexual harassment and...
Are universities' widening participation schemes doomed to failure? Stephen Gorard reveals the inherent problems that threaten these initiatives. If a British higher education institution announced...
It is something of a truism, in higher education c 2006, that "unto those who have, it shall be given". League tables seem to show the same universities at the top, year after year, collecting not...
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Argyle Street, Glasgow. Monday to Thursday and Saturday, 10am to 5pm; Friday and Sunday, 11am to 5pm. Disembodied and quite a surprise, Sophie Cave's cluster of...
Alan Johnson made it to only one conference of Universities UK when he was Higher Education Minister - he moved onwards and upwards to become Work and Pensions Secretary just before his second...
King's College London is launching a "groundbreaking" web project on the work of Archbishop Desmond Tutu at his 75th birthday party in Cape Town on September 25. It will aim to digitalise the entire...
Fifty chuffed academics will receive their National Teaching Fellowships from the Higher Education Academy next week at a glamorous ceremony in London's Middle Temple Hall. New fellows are known to...
Who says accountants are boring? At the annual conference of the Council for Higher Education Internal Auditors at Stirling University last week, part of one evening's formal entertainment included...
Now that's edutainment! Julian Baggini looks back at how a movie about a lecture brought showbusiness to the academy. Al Gore didn't know what he had started. The real success of the film-of-the-...
The true shapes and big questions of nature reveal themselves to curious and keen minds of any field, says Martin Kemp. They are the most fashionable couple in academe. Art and science were long...
Brussels, 14 September 2006 This is the first time that nanotechnology is being dealt with by such a broad forum, partici-pated in by representatives from the EU of the public sector, the scientific...
Brussels, 14 Sep 2006 An EU-funded project has developed a database to track the 50 factors that may cause allergies in children. The European model has attracted interest overseas form countries...