New v-c arrives to face strike
The new Oxford-educated vice-chancellor of the debt-ridden University of Zambia this week faced a strike by academics who said they were prepared to boycott lectures for four or five months. Robert...
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OECD calls for better data
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has seen a need for more information on the rates of return to individuals from higher education. A meeting in Dublin of 80 decision-makers...
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Higher studies lead to growth
Universities in developing countries are struggling to meet increasing demands for higher education, according to a joint report from Unesco and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...
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Hodge: dump dross or pay
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge has warned universities to ditch "Mickey Mouse" courses or face financial penalties. Ms Hodge launched a robust defence of her controversial attacks on...
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Dropout jibe not fair, study finds
A quarter of university dropouts abandon their studies because they have chosen the wrong course, according to a study carried out for the Department for Education and Skills. The study by Warwick...
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Journals censor results that could fuel bioterror
In a measure of the chilling epoch ushered in by September 11, the subsequent anthrax attacks and anxiety about bioterrorism, leading scientific journals and societies last week pledged to censor...
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Lost sheep find a way through play
Team problem-solving exercises on a Welsh hillside are preparing students for work placements. Pat Leon writes. Shepherding sheep on a Welsh hillside in winter is not everyone's idea of fun - unless...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name: Heather Viles. Age: 43. Job: Reader in geomorphology in the School of Geography and the Environment,...
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Denmark's unsung master of modernism
Arne Jacobsen
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Built on rules of strong reason and good fancy
Nicholas Hawksmoor
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The regeneration game
Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel composed of journals and letters: "How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made...
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Reopen the book - bacteria are back
Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus
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A deadly dance with diseases on death row
Stories in the Time of Cholera - Smallpox
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With the best will in the world
One World