Whistleblowers
Disability code 'lacking' A blind academic has accused Cambridge University of propagating a "desperate" environment for disabled staff. Roger Tapp, a physiologist at the university who suffers from...
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Threat to planned Cornish institute
Legal wrangles and soaring construction costs are threatening plans for a university in Cornwall. A student prospectus for the Combined Universities of Cornwall project has just been launched, but...
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Analysis: A sober taste of student life
Summer schools are raising the aspirations of sixth-formers. Alison Utley reports. For a boiling hot week last month, Lancaster University's picturesque campus on the edge of the Lake District was...
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Glittering prizes
Beverley Naidoo , a visiting fellow at Southampton University's research and graduate school of education, has won the Carnegie Medal for children's literature for her novel The Other Side of Truth...
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On the move
Kevin Boyle , director of Essex University's Human Rights Centre, has been appointed senior adviser to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights . He will hold the post for a year from...
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What's in a name?
A desperate email has gone out from Universities UK to its members in anticipation of a host of inquiries over the summer on - eeek - higher education. It needs to know which universities have...
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Big Brother with essays
The University of Kent at Canterbury seems to have decided that associations with 24-hour surveillance, nightmare housemates and boredom relieved only by occasional pointless tasks is just the thing...
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It's a fair cop(y), gov
Covert copiers trying to avoid royalty payments could feel the strong arm of the law. The Copyright Licensing Authority has appointed a new compliance officer, Peter Knight, who spent 28 years in the...
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Oh yes you were!
Inspectors appointed by the Quality Assurance Agency to assess teaching in philosophy have criticised the QAA's failure to defend them from a THES article in which it was alleged that they operated a...
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No cocktails, but tea and sympathy
Being an admissions officer is bad for your teeth, says Anne Maddox in the second in our series from the grass roots. Ah, summer, oh what does it mean to you? Long sunny days in Tuscany perhaps, or...
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In the news: Antinori and Zavos
Severino Antinori (main picture) and Panos Michael Zavos are pioneers of reproductive cloning and, as befits their controversial status, public opinion about the men could not be more diverse. Hailed...
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Forces combined for good
With more academic support, NGOs will continue to be potent agents for social change, says Brenda Gourley. The Salzburg Seminar bills itself as "one of the world's foremost international centres...
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Eyewitness: re-writing Russia's cold war history
Ten years after the cold war's end, Russia's rising young historians are working with US and western European researchers to re-evaluate 40 years of frosty East-West relations with the help of...
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Irish geographer finds football fame
Australian sport's newest and unlikeliest star is an Irishman who is studying at the University of New South Wales. Tadhg Kennelly, 20, from Listowel, County Kerry, had never seen a game of...
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Swedes leave Danes in pain
Swedish medical students attending Danish universities are giving Denmark's education and health ministers a headache. Although Denmark lacks doctors, Copenhagen, Aarhus and South Denmark...