Pasteur head may lose job
The head of France's prestigious Institut Pasteur has put his job on the line amid growing protests from scientists employed at the medical research centre. A vote of confidence in Philippe Kourilsky...
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Chinese flock to join civil service
In the days of China's imperial bureaucracies, there were always more qualified officials than there were positions available - a deliberate policy intended to keep officials in line. Now those days...
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No taste for bella Italia
Italian politicians are concerned that the country's universities have missed out on the Chinese international student market. During a state visit to China, President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi called for...
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Business school sued over 'masters'
Stockholm University School of Business is being sued by an international student who claims he was misled over the status of a business studies course. Tom Smith, a former Washington lobbyist,...
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Holocaust on syllabus at German college
The atrocities of the Holocaust will be taught for the first time in Germany as a compulsory part of the undergraduate syllabus at a private university in Berlin. The Jewish-American Touro College...
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Thirty-somethings are sick of grumpy old staff
A generation gap divides academe. Jim Mills wants more senior members to stop moaning and smell the roses It was all good news as we met at the British Library. Most of us knew one another from...
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Nancy Rothwell
Being summoned as an expert witness is nerve-racking. Especially if the summons comes from the 'committee from hell' I'd never received a summons before. Now I have, though not to a court of law but...
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Looking out for Number 11
National newspapers are revelling in the apparent ego battle between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the Chancellor. But it seems that senior figures in the higher education world have already decided...
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Aussie rules in the boardroom
Perhaps we could all learn some lessons in successful negotiation from Professor Gilbert. Sources close to the university report that he has been known to start potentially edgy meetings by...
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No whining over sour grapes
It seems anyone heard uttering "Mickey Mouse", "waste of time" or "dossers' degrees" anywhere near a media studies department will now elicit no more than a fleeting look of disdain. Academics at a...
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One guillotine, s'il vous plait
Meanwhile, Warwick University's famous feminist in residence Germaine Greer has stormed out of Celebrity Big Brother , provoking great excitement among journalists around the world. It seems likely...
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Reunited: Loftier dreams than of crisps and red cheese
TV producer Mark Henderson, who was held captive in Colombia in 2003, returned to Leicester University I would love to say that I chose to go to Leicester to study French and politics, that it was my...
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Why I think Bernard-Henri Lévy is a pretender
Why write a book about Bernard-Henri Lévy? He has not created a theory, not thought of a single original concept, not succeeded in becoming a writer or a film-maker, or even a serious journalist. And...
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No pain, no progress
Support science's risk-takers, urges John Zarnecki, as he waits for explosive news from Titan On Friday afternoon, a 300kg flying saucer moving at 22,000kph will begin its descent towards the surface...
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Shout, and shout in chorus
If HE institutions don't want to be played off against one another, they must unite, insists Roger Brown Higher education possesses a fragmented voice. A plethora of bodies claim to represent the...