Irish institute could close
Four departments at Queen's University, Belfast (pictured), are facing run-down or closure as a serious cash crisis develops. Its world-famous Institute of Irish Studies is one of the departments...
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Kisangani
Lectures at the University of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been suspended after fighting between rival factions of pro-Rwandan forces.
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Russia imposes law of the jungle
Russian universities will be forced to compete for students and funds under a new system of state orders for specifically qualified graduates being drawn up by the ministry of education, regional...
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Victory on loan payment dates
Stirling University students are claiming a victory on loan payments that could lead to students across the UK being able to choose when and how much they are paid. Stirling has had a two-semester...
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Members condemn unfunded growth
Phil Baty reports on Natfhe's angry mood at the union's Torquay conference Prime minister Tony Blair's commitment to raise university participation to 50 per cent is heading for humiliating failure...
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Minister in the lion's den inflames animal passions
Phil Baty reports on Natfhe's angry mood at the union's Torquay conference It all started rather well. As a junior education minister entering the lion's den of a trade union conference, Ivan Lewis...
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Union rounds on RAE debacle
Phil Baty reports on Natfhe's angry mood at the union's Torquay conference Ministers and funding chiefs are undermining the very nature of higher education by forcibly reducing some universities to a...
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Libidinous hero puts passion into history
Michael Winstanley takes an unexpected trip down memory lane and stumbles across the joy of discovery "Hiya." The student breezed into my room. It was 5.30pm on a Friday and I was winding up another...
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No way to treat valuable citizens
Part-time, untenured lecturers are the backbone of many US campuses, but at what price, asks Stephen Phillips. US campuses are in the throes of their most intense recruitment drive in a generation....
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Fast food is no substitute for an intellectual feast
Modularity is a sham and the weapon of choice in the casualisation of our profession, argues Bob Brecher. No one says Oxbridge should modularise its degrees, so if it's not good enough for them, why...
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Harassed, pulled every which way, but committed to her workers
Maggie Pearson has to turn the NHS, the third largest workforce in the world, into a learning organisation. She spoke to Claire Sanders Maggie Pearson's job is best seen as one long balancing act....
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Invitations for gifted cousins
Mandy Garner meets an organiser of a literary festival with ambitious goals. Michael Schmidt is a bit of an internationalist. Born in Mexico, he has been running Carcanet press, the literary...
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A 5-1 win and the islands are theirs
Football, foot-and-mouth and the Falklands - English-Argentine relations have been rife with conflict for 35 years. Klaus Dodds takes a look at foul play on and off the pitch. At 12.30pm today,...
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Business in bad brains
Are adolescents really 'emotionally incontinent' or is the troubled teenager more a figment of the marketing manager's mind? Jerome Burne reports. It has always been a topic of much frustration to...
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Make poetry a friend not a foe
Poetry has fallen victim to a culture that dismisses anything 'difficult' as elitist. But students should delight in the difficult - it can be exciting, argues Ruth Padel. "We are not interested,"...