EIS set to negotiate new staff contracts
The Educational Institute of Scotland is preparing for local talks in the new universities following its members' acceptance of a revised contract for new staff. The EIS University Lecturers'...
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Robots fail to spark interest
Students are proving uninterested in creating the robots needed for Britain's future factories as numbers enrolling for manufacturing courses continue to fall. Two leading university-based groups in...
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Peter Lampl
It was when Peter Lampl returned to England after 15 years in the United States and found that his old grammar school had gone private, his school friends were paying for their children's education...
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Beyond obvious talents
TV heroine Xena is used to overcoming opponents, but can she survive academic scrutiny? In the latest issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, David Adcock, a religious studies...
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Media hard times
The press has given Oxford vice-chancellor Colin Lucas a hard time over the Laura Spence case. But he has had worse run-ins with the press. In an interview in UK Press Gazette, Boris Johnson, Lucas's...
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Changing standards
Amid all the talk of elitism, Oxford and Cambridge must be relieved that Prince William seems to have set his sights on Gordon Brown's alma mater. To gain his chosen place at Edinburgh University to...
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Not even if you pay me
Mention parking charges and most academics perk up. So Coventry University decided to try to raise the profile of its city via a competition offering a prize of a free parking permit. The catch?...
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On the move
Robert Stevens, master of Pembroke College, Oxford, has resigned a year earlier than planned for personal reasons and due to fundraising weariness. The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council...
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New York
Human Rights Watch this month accused the government of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic of trying to silence political opposition by harassing the student-based Otpor (Resistance) movement....
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Siena
The University of Siena is to promote its image with a merchandising project in Italy and abroad. Items from clothing to crockery will bear the image of Saint Catherine of Siena, the city's patron...
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Sanaa
More than 10,000 students took to the streets of the Yemeni capital last week demanding the execution of a Sudanese morgue attendant at Sanaa University who is accused of raping and murdering 16...
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Eyewitness
Rome, like many other parts of Italy, is under attack from tiger mosquitoes, a particularly aggressive and dangerous species believed to have arrived from Asia. Paul Reiter, head of the entomology...
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Knives out for Mr President
Economic problems and outbreaks of violence are giving the new Indonesian leader a bumpy ride, says Bill Watson. When Abdurrahman Wahid took office as president of Indonesia last November he knew...
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Cuts to degree places
Bulgarian prime minister Ivan Kostov has called for substantial cuts in university admissions to bring graduation rates in line with job prospects. The call was reminiscent of the admissions policy...
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Norway plans for niche market
Greater autonomy, higher quality and more but specialised universities will dominate the future of Norway's higher education sector if the recommendations of a government report are implemented. The...