Analysis: From the bottom to the top
Cardiff has advanced from crisis to world-class status. Tony Tysome reports. If the results of last year's research assessment exercise were a cause for back-patting up and down the country, at...
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Job drive parades probation diploma
The National Probation Service has put the diploma in probation studies at the heart of a recruitment drive designed to attract 1,000 new trainee probation officers. The diploma, introduced in 1998,...
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Tooth decay and sharks bag £6m for Scots
A dental decay detector and a library of shark antibodies are among 38 research projects to win £6 million in backing from Scotland's innovative proof of concept fund. Dental researchers at Dundee...
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Unwired could be plugged in
Compulsory computers for all students could soon become a reality, according to TechLearn, the technology-transfer arm of the Joint Information Systems Committee. More than 75 per cent of students...
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Global allies seek to dilute West's influence
Academics from the developing world are setting up a network dedicated to reform of their higher education systems free from western domination, writes David Jobbins. The idea emerged from a seminar...
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Australia offers loans to foreign professionals in face of brain drain
In an effort to reverse Australia's brain drain, the federal government is to provide loans to foreign professionals intending to work in Australia to pay for university bridging courses to meet...
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Kenyatta puts faith in herbal remedies
A Kenyan university has engaged herbalists to offer health services and participate in research with its scientists and campus doctors. Kenyatta University authorities said the herbalists had proved...
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Peace prompts study revival
Peace has returned to Sri Lanka following the ceasefire agreement between government forces and separatist Tamil Tigers. It heralds a new era for the higher education sector after a decade of civil...
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Chilly reception for reform plan
The World Bank is refining its approach to higher education elements of its strategy for capacity building and poverty reduction in developing countries. Academics from developing countries have been...
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JRC membership drive pushes out eastwards
The European Union's Joint Research Centre wants to include more academics and scientists from countries seeking EU membership, expanding the European Research Area eastwards and southwards. Its...
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Ottawa
Canada's police complaints commission has urged the Mounties to apologise to student protesters for "inappropriate actions" at a Vancouver meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation...
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Research body accused of fraud
Italy's best-known independent social, economic and political research institute, Eurispes, is embroiled in accusations that it embezzled more than L4 million (£2.5 million) by running bogus training...
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Train delays derail exam
More than 10,000 trainee secondary teachers will have to retake their qualifying examination because of a rail breakdown near Paris. Holdups on a suburban railway line delayed many of the 1,100...
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Don's Diary: I, cyborg
Thursday Up at 5am for the drive to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Irena, my wife, and Mark Gasson, lead researcher, are with me. I do not like operations, yet here I am having one that I do not...
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In the news: Lovemore Madhuku
University of Zimbabwe law lecturer Lovemore Madhuku's Cambridge doctorate was on the legal aspects of bank financing for companies in Zimbabwe. But, in Zimbabwe's recent turmoil, his expertise as a...