Lecturers protest at 2,000 job cuts
Two thousand jobs are under threat in new universities and course closures are blocking access to key degree subjects such as languages and social work for working-class communities, lecturers' union...
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Artful experiments
The anatomy of a Highland midge bite, glowing jellyfish and psychologically enhanced magic are among 13 projects that have won a share of almost £200,000 in funding through the sciart awards. The...
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Italians' cunning plans secure extra course credits
Italy's academics are in a frenzy over the transition from degrees based on a series of exams to a system of credits. Faculty councils are using any means necessary, from academic clout to...
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Higher education awards and appointments
University of Central England Marie-Pierre Gauthier , was awarded first place in a competition to create the office of the future for business advisers Andersen and Andersen Legal; Katherine Smith...
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Latest UK news
Scots 2,000 examiners down The Scottish Qualifications Authority is short of more than 2,000 examiners one month before this year’s examinations begin. Scottish education minister Jack McConnell said...
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Latest international news
US medics go to Cuba for free training Cuba yesterday welcomed the first group of US students to receive free medical training in the communist state. The six women and two men will join...
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From today's UK papers
The Guardian A private consortium of genetics and computer firms has announced plans to trump the deciphering of the human "book of life" by mapping and selling a molecule-by-molecule blueprint of...
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Weather fine, war iffy, corns playing up
Nigel Barley delights in the deciduous and a deltiologist's. In the village where I grew up there was a little old lady who lived alone. When she died and they broke down the door, they discovered...
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Britain's good show fails to cast leading Nazi stars
The Effect of Science on the Second World War
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Publish and be laughed at
The Lying Stones of Marrakech
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Hoping for some tutor to reduce you to tears
The Doctors of Revolution
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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 that revolves around a seedy shop in Soho: "Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left the shop...
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The poorer half of a life
Bertrand Russell
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'Schlick-teasing' queen of Oxford
A Memoir
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Life is too big for atomic minds
Science and Poetry