Murderous moves or fair measures?
The Dark Side of Democracy
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A man with a vision, a lantern and a piece of cake
Keeping the Vision Alive
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the favourite book of Napoleon Bonaparte: "On the eastern slope of the mountain that rises behind the...
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World banks on an empty promise
Emotions in Finance
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Dress code given cold shoulder by union
Lecturers beware. Not content with trying to micromanage your working day, managers now want to control the way you dress. After last week's introduction of a prescriptive "dress code" for staff -...
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Pupils want perks for £3K fee
The top-up fee generation of market-savvy students is set to hit academics and universities with a list of demands ranging from better teaching quality to free gym membership, according to an...
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'Autism is not a social problem'
Her pioneering explorations of the biological roots of autism have won Uta Frith special recognition Uta Frith, professor of cognitive development at University College London's Institute of...
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Royal society
2005 fellowships: James Barber , professor of biochemistry, Imperial College London; Martin Barlow , professor of maths, University of British Columbia; Laurence Barron , Gardiner professor of...
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Whistleblower: Students win £250K payout
In a landmark ruling by the Office of the Independent Adjudicator, Oxford Brookes is to be forced to compensate a group of trainee osteopaths. Phil Baty reports The student complaints watchdog is set...
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Big cash boost for science, but outlook cloudy for astronomy
Ocean science and animal health are just two areas of UK science set to benefit from a substantial injection of money, according to the research councils' three-year spending plans released this week...
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CIA outrages UK academics by planting spies in classroom
Moves by the US intelligence agency to place trainee spies secretly in university anthropology departments have sparked an international outcry in the discipline, writes Phil Baty. Anthropologists in...
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Next week
SPECIAL ETHICS SUPPLEMENT ANSWERS TO THE TRICKY QUESTIONS FACING ACADEMICS PLUS Can people ever trust scientists again? Sir John Sulston looks at how communication canovercome suspicion
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Natfhe conference: Protests fail to halt plans for merger
Natfhe conference finally gives green light to new super-union, reports Phil Baty Natfhe activists have voted "yes" to a merger with the Association of University Teachers, leaving just one hurdle to...
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Natfhe conference: RAE boycott rejected
Natfhe delegates rejected a plan to mount a "total boycott" of the 2008 research assessment exercise. The conference carried two motions seeking the scrapping of the RAE, which was said to be "...
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Natfhe conference: Fee plans attacked
The conference carried four motions condemning top-up fees and the Government's "marketisation" of higher education. One, from Southern Region, said variable fees would "produce a multi-tiered higher...