Minister has his say Down Under
Times Higher reporters look at pressures on courses in basic subjects worldwide Six years ago, Australia's largest university, Monash, faced a A$40 million (£16 million) shortfall as a result of...
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Liberty gives US 'hollow' feeling
Times Higher reporters look at pressures on courses in basic subjects worldwide The core curriculum of US universities has been called a "hollow" one and has become an ideological lightning rod on...
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Afghans still stumble over language barrier
Kabul University remains underfunded three years after the fall of the Taleban, with academic standards below international norms and students attending lectures in subzero temperatures because of...
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Retrieved looted books put in bomb-proof vault
Stockholm University Library has locked away five rare books in a bomb-proof vault after they were recovered from a thief who died when his apartment blew up. The five scientific texts from the 16th...
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EU commissioner's £9.5bn aim
Jan Figel, the new European education commissioner, faces his first test after failing to secure agreement on a near-300 per cent rise in the European Union education budget at a summit. He said: "We...
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Stench of rotten fruit fills groves of academe
An apparent rise in corruption around the world is undermining all of higher education, says Philip Altbach. The deputy prime minister of Russia recently estimated that between $2 billion (£1.06...
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Alison Wolf
Why are we so reluctant to make a nuisance of ourselves over nonsensical policy? It boils down to the politics of size. We all know about special-interest groups. They are selfish, underhand affairs...
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Divine intervention
The Association of University Teachers has come under fire for hiring left-wing media commentator Polly Toynbee as a star columnist in its members' magazine, AUTLook . The issue after her inaugural...
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An offal coincidence?
Who says higher education has become a cynical commercial operation, churning out students as if from a sausage machine? Not just Laurie Taylor, it seems. Staff at Nottingham Trent University have...
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Who rises needs prizes
The academic gossip mill is working overtime with the realisation that three of the most powerful political jobs in science could be up for grabs this year. Despite determined attempts by the...
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Ground control to the BNSC
Those who have described Lord Sainsbury as the grey man of science may have to eat their words. Last week, he pulled out all the stops to launch a historic space science collaboration with China. The...
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A. C. Grayling: Review
`In an eye-watering moment von Hagens slices a testicle in half with what looks like a large bread knife' ANATOMY FOR BEGINNERS. Channel 4, 11pm daily, January 24 to . When Gunther von Hagens first...
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Why I... see no place for science in the abortion debate
Stunning 4-D ultrasound images of the foetus at 15 to 22 weeks gestation last year prompted a national debate over late-term abortion. Newspaper reports suggested that it could "walk", "cry" or "...
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Big sister's big rebuff
Was there revolutionary reason behind Greer's reality-TV madness? asks Roy Harris. Trying to anticipate how Germaine Greer's sharp analytic intelligence would fare in a competition of mind-numbing...
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Don't crumble or quit, call us
With workplace stress in the spotlight, a counsellor advises lecturers to seek help. After ten years in academe, the caller told me she was considering quitting. The lecturer had a mountain of forms...