Scientist on treason charge
A Russian academic from the prestigious USA and Canada Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been charged with treason. Meanwhile, a visiting professor from the United States has...
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Serbs rail at sanctions
BELGRADE A leading Serbian intellectual and opponent of the regime of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic has said that western sanctions are destroying the lives of academics in Serbia. Marija...
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Catholic colleges in US bow to Vatican
BOSTON American bishops have overwhelmingly approved controversial Vatican guidelines for Catholic universities that require their presidents publicly to express a commitment to the faith and...
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Women athletes thrown by foul play
The equal treatment of women university athletes off the field is in question in the United States just as the law, fan support and even Fifa, world football's governing body, was starting to close...
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Dons dubbed 'sex pests'
NAIROBI Egerton University in Kenya has suspended four senior lecturers for sexually harassing female students and demanding bribes in return for good grades. The four lecturers were named last week...
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UK lab takes star role
An industry-academia collaboration that aims to become the Hollywood of "anytime, anywhere" learning was launched on Monday in London. The Learning Laboratory involves 16 companies and the University...
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Price on dons' heads
Oxford dons will gain a bigger slice of profits earned through exploitation of their research under rules governing the university's growing spin-off businesses. An intellectual property policy that...
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IT news in brief
The University of Derby has opened a centre to develop online assessment and cut paperwork as part of the long-term project Tripartite Interactive Delivery Systems (Triads). Don Mackenzie, director...
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IT news in brief
Video-conferencing is helping teach nurses how to care for terminally ill patients. St Oswald's Hospice in Newcastle is using the equipment after research by the Open University showed that teaching...
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IT news in brief
Teesside Airport's Pounds 360 million expansion plan for international freight can be seen on virtual reality models created by the University of Teesside's VR Centre. The development in Southside is...
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Indicators that drive forward a social agenda
Much time and effort has gone into generating the performance indicators published this week (pages i-xii). The result is a compromise between a government eager to extend accountability by league...
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Invisible universities offer tangible rewards
Globalisation and the knowledge-based economy pose challenges to all purveyors of tertiary education, argues Jamil Salmi Imagine a university without buildings or classrooms or even a library, 10,000...
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Tables for our times
Bahram Bekhradnia tells universities they must learn from the first national measures of their performance, published today Today we are publishing performance indicators for 170 universities and...
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Exploding great green whoppers
The myth that rainforests are vital to the earth is damaging policy-making and the search for scientific truth, says Philip Stott Do we really need rainforests? For the Greens that is a rhetorical...
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Beyond ET and New Ageism
Discovering Archaeology (six times a year) - Minerva