Mugabe plans to detain key talent
The Zimbabwean Government is considering conscripting graduates into the civil service to stem a brain drain that has stripped the country of skills since political instability and economic collapse...
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EU aid under scrutiny
Neelie Kroes, the European Union's Competition Commissioner, has signalled a possible tightening of state aid rules on commercially oriented research to encourage governments to spend more on basic...
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Court defies PM over headscarfs
The head of Turkey's Constitutional Court has dashed the hopes of thousands of Muslims that the ban on headscarves in universities will be lifted. In a high-profile speech before Recep Erdogan, the...
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Forget fruit flies. Stroll to success with turtles
UK higher education will improve only if the Government adopts a long-term evolutionary view, says David Watson Elections are times for looking backward as well as for looking forwards, not least for...
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Alison Wolf
While exams are intended to bring out the best in students, perhaps they also bring out the worst in audit culture The election campaign was generally seen as dull, with few voters really engaged....
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Rebel without a pause
Labour rebel Ian Gibson was openly worried about his Norwich seat in the run-up to the election. In the event, he suffered a smaller swing than the other Labour MP for Norwich, Charles Clarke, the...
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A Christmas gift for scientists
Lord Sainsbury has been telling friends that as long as Tony Blair remains keen for him to stay on as Science Minister, he will remain in the role until at least Christmas. This will please the...
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Prize guise
When Luton University found itself in the press again last month over previous deficits, Les Ebdon, the vice-chancellor, sent students a memo to reassure them. Among a list of accolades, including...
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A dead-good excuse
A mark grid for the MSc maths finance displayed on a notice board at Warwick University has the following footnote: "**Authorised absence. Death certificate provided."
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It all adds up to indoctrination
Meanwhile, a professor of maths at Warwick was puzzled to hear frequent complaints from the two British youngsters doing the Warwick teaching certificate, but none from their two colleagues from the...
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Timothy walker is drawn to the budding artists of biology
'The verisimilitude of Vicky Cox's White Onion and Skin makes you reach for the knife and the chopping board' a new flowering - 1,000 years of botanical art Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to September 11...
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Why I...
It is estimated that one in four students will experience some form of mental distress during their time at university and with more than 2 million students in higher education, it is clear that...
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Sanctions can work...
The AUT boycott is part of a tradition of non-violent protest, argue Hilary Rose and Steven Rose Just 50 years ago, six years after the call from the African National Congress, 496 British academics...
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Skills, bills and the will to study
John Widdowson believes that part-time learners have been forgotten in the higher education debate The debate on the future of higher education in further education colleges has centred in the past...
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Biocentre unites all in seeking key to life
Physicists, mathematicians, engineers, computing experts and chemists are crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries to join the quest to unravel the meaning of life. The £36 million Manchester...