Standard swindles
The quality debate is hollow. We need a renewed understanding of education, argues Duke Maskell. Whenever the word "standards" crops up in connection with education, it is time to reach for the off...
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A game that nobody can win
The Weakest Link not brutal enough for you? Imagine it crossed with the RAE, as Robin Flowerdew did. Question Mistress (QM): Welcome to ... The Weakest Link ! Our contestants must work together to...
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Why I... stripped and created art that explores female sexual stereotypes
The Scarlett Project explores how erotic dancing can be used to influence how the female body is perceived. This project is a logical extension of my previous performance work and writing, filtered...
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Belgians and Dutch in dock over animal testing
Two countries face hefty European Union fines. Keith Nuthall reports. The European Commission is to take the Belgian and Dutch governments to the European Court of Justice, claiming that they have...
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Canadian judges ask: when is a mouse not a mouse?
A patent for the cancer-resistant 'oncomouse' is being disputed. Philip Fine reports from Montreal. A controversial patent case surrounding a genetically manipulated laboratory animal could soon be...
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Cutting edge: Toshiyuki Nakagaki
Do single-cell organisms have intelligence? Slime mould, for one, can solve a maze and find food. It is a common insult in Japan to hear someone ridiculed as "one-cellular," indicating minimal mental...
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Mosquito or an airborne vaccinator?
If mosquitoes lost their taste for human blood or could no longer play host to Plasmodium, the malaria parasite, there would be 1 million fewer deaths every year. The development of mosquitoes with...
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Where direct action starts
The UfI's chief executive tells Tony Tysome how learndirect works for learners and institutions. Anne Wright, chief executive of the University for Industry, does not look amused. I have unexpectedly...
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US colleges ban study in UK
At least three American universities have cancelled study-abroad programmes in the United Kingdom and Ireland and another has banned Europeans from its agricultural department because of foot-and-...
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Master plan for new post-16 council is unveiled
The scale of the task facing the new Learning and Skills Council became clear this week as chief executive John Harwood unveiled his master plan. The LSC, which officially takes up the reins of the...
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Student vets join Maff on frontline
Final-year veterinary students from across the United Kingdom have joined the battle against the foot-and-mouth epidemic. So far, 136 volunteers have answered last week's call from the Ministry of...
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LSE leads revolt against QAA
The London School of Economics resolved to break free from Quality Assurance Agency scrutiny this week, leading the elite Russell Group of universities in open revolt. MPs, peers and trade unions...
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Latest international news
Italian don arrested in mafia butter scam A warrant has been issued for the arrest of the director of Naples University’s food science department for allegedly helping the Neapolitan mafia...
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Latest UK news
Report says academics are underpaid and overworked Lecturing unions have welcomed a report calling on government to address the pay disparity between academics and comparable professions and to...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Researchers at Intervet, a subsidiary of Akzo Nobel, the Dutch chemicals group, are racing to complete development of a test that could tell the difference between animals infected...