Slovak MPs kill fees Bill
Plans to introduce student tuition fees in Slovakia have been defeated after key members of the coalition Government crossed the chamber during a parliamentary vote in Bratislava. Twelve members of...
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Strippers-for-votes probe rocks rector
The new rector of Mexico's Autonomous University of Sinaloa faces a Ministry of Education inquiry after a colleague accused him of courting student voters by paying for strippers and prostitutes....
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Spain honours Franco victims
A new project will record what happened to academics who lost their jobs as a result of Franco's purges of Spain's universities after the Spanish Civil War and will honour their memory. By 1945, a...
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A little fine-tuning will put food on all our tables
Organic farming won't feed the world, and its environmental benefits are overrated, say Louise Fresco et al World governments have committed themselves to a double challenge. At the Earth Summit in...
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Gary Day
More students means more people with mental health problems, but can universities offer the appropriate support? It's 5.20pm on a Thursday. Only another few hours before security unlock the main...
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Still in dark over shadow
If a week is a long time in politics, as Harold Wilson said, then a month must be the political equivalent of an age. It is coming up to a month since the general election and even though he has...
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Long hot summer for rebel
But if there is a hint of tardiness in Mr Kennedy's approach to appointments, the same appears to be true of the Government when it comes to appointments to select committees. One Labour insider...
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Stamp gaffe had Tim licked
If it was "The Sun wot won it" for John Major in 1992, it was a council clerk who lost it for Tim Collins, the former Tory education spokesman, in 2005. Mr Collins lost his seat in Westmorland and...
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Provost uses the U word
If you want to divine the future for University College London, then read between the lines, one senior figure advised recently. The provost, Malcolm Grant, always refers to his institution as "...
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Why I think scientists who talk to the public deserve praise, not derision
One physicist used to greet me: "Ah - the one doing research into ice-cream" with a slightly disparaging air. Through gritted teeth, I would explain again that my PhD was actually in polymer physics...
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To hospital, and quick ...
We must help refugee academics to contribute to society, not just drive cabs, writes Abdul Lalzad I was an engineering professor at Kabul University for 20 years. I headed the mechanical engineering...
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Lay out patterns for success
Fashion students need to be better prepared to work in the industry, argues Richard Bradbury The management team at River Island invited a group of course tutors from fashion colleges across the UK...
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Power to make or break a point
The days of chalk and talk are long gone. But, says Susan Bassnett, reliance on modern technology is not always the best option To PowerPoint or not to PowerPoint? that is the question. It is asked...
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A well-cut lawn is not the draw
Students don't come to a university for its gardens so research your target market carefully and design your prospectus accordingly. But don't be a shrinking violet either, advises Harriet Swain To...
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Holding up well on the late shift
Name: Joanna Bourke Age: 41 Job: Professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London - the best job in the world. I get to teach some of the most intellectually committed students in London and...