Call for sweeping Euro reforms
Europe's universities are riddled with "rigidities and hindrances", the European Commission says in a strategy document published this week that calls for "immediate, in-depth and co-ordinated change...
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Ottawa
Close friends of former University of Toronto professor Ramin Jahanbegloo fear he may have been tortured since his arrest at Tehran airport. Mr Jahanbegloo, now head of the Cultural Research Bureau,...
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Windhoek
Hundreds of students at the University of Namibia are refusing to eat compulsory breakfasts introduced to improve attentiveness and reduce yawning in lectures. The students say the N$12 (£1) a day...
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Zagreb
Croatia is to establish a university in the northern coastal city of Pula to help meet student demand. Education Minister Dragan Primorac says the country's 160,000 undergraduates are only half the...
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Stockholm
The Swedish Government has refused to extend the residence permit of Russian biologist Andrei Zamyatin, arrested on espionage charges while working at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences...
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Beware cherry-pickers
The granting of degree-awarding powers to the (private) College of Law may be the thin end of a very significant wedge. The failure of Buckingham University to grow into an institution on the scale...
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Neither pay nor morale will improve if you give in
Chaminda Jayanetti, a final-year student, urges lecturers to continue their action for the good of academe Almost eight out of ten students oppose the exam boycott. Ouch! I don't envy the tutor who...
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Nancy Rothwell
This country appears to have a strange and growing fascination with "best-of" lists. Barely a week goes by without a television programme describing the top something or other - films, sit-coms,...
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Nicola Humble: A sample of our culinary smorgasbord
WHAT'S FOR DINNER? Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Middlesex University, until October 29 Do you remember Soda Streams? The multi-coloured syrups, the fizz and the excitement of being...
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LSE spells out its USPs
Academics at the London School of Economics need not worry about being stuck for words on open days. The institution has prepared a PowerPoint presentation with a sales pitch for lecturers. One...
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Cracking the Da Natfhe code
A press release from Natfhe announcing what further steps union members could take to secure an improved pay offer left some a little puzzled. This was the first one:
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And you are...?
Some big names are speaking at a widening participation conference in Earl's Court, London, this month. The director of the Office for Fair Access and the new chief executive of the Higher Education...
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No prizes for originality
An online magazine is offering a prize for the best plagiarist. Academics are limited to 750 words, none of which can be their own. Phrases, sentences or passages must be lifted from at least five...
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Great, and not so great, Scott
Wolverhampton University press officer Scott Faulkner changed his name by deed poll to Scott Göran Eriksson for the last World Cup. But back then he was working as a sports reporter for the Liverpool...
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I, Internet: will www switch on to itself?
The net is evolving a structure not unlike the human brain. Could self-awareness be far behind? wonders Terry Sejnowski The human brain is the most complex computing device in the known universe. The...