Corporate sharks may be psychos
An authority on psychopathic behaviour has turned his attention to corporate types who share personality traits with his criminal subjects. Robert Hare, renowned in law enforcement circles for...
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Database plan to get rid of bogus degrees
Plans for an international database that will help to eliminate attempts to claim a "degree" from a mythical university are at an advanced stage. The database will enable people to check a particular...
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Australian research hits new heights
Australian academics have doubled their output of research papers published in refereed journals over the past 20 years to more than 20,000 a year. The average number of citations per paper has also...
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Bavaria steps up its bid to become home of Harvard-style elite universities
Bavaria has boosted its bid to become Germany's "elite" university state after Edmund Stoiber, the regional prime minister, unveiled a set of courses to rival Harvard University. Ten elite courses...
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Syria bans Turks from its private schools
Syria has banned Turkish students who want to study religion from its private schools as part of a crackdown on radical Islamic groups in the aftermath of last November's al-Qaida suicide attacks in...
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Student activism falls after terror attacks
The numbers of young women wearing headscarves, young men sporting beards and people selling religious tracts on Morocco's university campuses are higher than ten years ago. But there are signs that...
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Change of rule pleases rectors
Spanish universities face sweeping changes after voters brought the Socialist Party to power in a surprise victory after the Madrid bombing. The socialists have promised to increase funding and to...
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Quick fix will not rescue UK plc from RAE robbers
Lambert's proposal for a new stream of funding for business-relevant research is vital, argues Alan Reed. When the government publishes its ten-year investment framework for science and innovation...
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Gary Day
'Who can communicate in a language that's the love child of post-structuralism and the Institute for Learning and Teaching? Lots of people, apparently' I'd do anything to avoid work, except go to...
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Sykes holds on for share of cash
The annual earnings received by Sir Richard Sykes as rector of Imperial College London - some £250,000 last year, placing him second in the league table of vice-chancellors' pay - do not form the...
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Warwick cushions US blow
Congratulations to students at Warwick University who have snatched back the record for the world's largest pillow fight from a US upstart. The students first claimed the record three weeks ago, with...
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Girl-power lunch a bit of a giggle
The lunch for female achievers hosted by the Queen earlier this month was graced by just one English vice-chancellor - Bernadette Porter, rector of Roehampton, University of Surrey. Dr Porter, who is...
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Lit up by a wave from Brian
Researchers from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen last week began sea trials of a prototype turbine platform that they hope will revolutionise the renewable energy industry by generating tidal...
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Don's diary: a craftsman of beautiful chaos
Monday Courtesy of an award from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, I'm en route to New York to interview Richard Foreman, the avant-garde writer and director. Foreman is virtually unknown to UK...
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Why I... believe Zionism isn't racist
According to my university student union, I am a racist. For two years before starting my masters degree, I worked for an anti-racism charity, and as an undergraduate I was active in tackling racism...