Appointments
UKCOSA Clive Saville has succeeded Maeve Sherlock as chief executive of the Council for International Education. He joins UKCOSA after more than 30 years in the Department for Education and...
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Honorary degrees
University of Teesside LLD: Emily Mary Blatch, life peer, former education minister and minister of state in the Home Office; Robert Aebersold, president of Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania;...
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The plight of the living dead
There are 1,000 new cases of zombiism reported in Haiti each year. Are zombies really the dead brought back to life by sorcerers, as locals believe, or are they people suffering from mental illness?...
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Sum people ...
Why does Ian Stewart find it impossible to ignore the legs of an animal if he spots one walking down the road? It's all down to his mathematical mind, he says What is it like to be a mathematician?...
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Impaired by our limitations
Children are born with impairments but disabled by society, Tom Shakespeare tells Ayala Ochert in our series on young researchers When Barnardo's conducted a project last year called "What works for...
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Something fishy about that Peruvian in Glasgow
Previously restricted reports from MI5's first ten years throw light on the shadowy characters suspected of spying during the first world war. John Davies reports On 11 April 1915 Ludovic Hurwitz y...
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Nature's defeat of nurture
Studies of twins have shown that behaviour is influenced by our genes to a surprising extent. Lawrence Wright examines the social implications Psychology has been shaken in recent years by studies of...
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Art for our sake
The shortlisted artists for Tuesday's Turner Prize are less interested in conventional considerations of colour and form than in the circumstances in which work is produced and received. John Slyce...
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Boost to research in new posting
What is the future of nursing education as more school-leavers attend university? Julia Hinde reports Nursing research is set for a boost with the appointment of a professor of nursing research at...
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Figures distort female crime
DELINQUENT women are nothing new, a study of girls in the early years of this century has found. Society was despairing of the "modern" girl in the 1860s and has continued to redefine what it means...
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Cash crop
(Photograph) - Cash crop: a student at Askham Bryan College of Agriculture and Horticulture, York, completes his crop-spraying training. Short courses at the college, such as forklift truck-driving...
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Nexus proposes private Oxbridge
OXFORD and Cambridge universities should go private, an influential "intellectual network" of academics with close government links will argue this week. David Halpern, founder of the left-of-centre...
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Higher education system would be damaged if the Oxbridge college fee were moved
Britain's whole higher education system would be damaged if the Oxbridge college fee were removed, MPs were warned this week. In a House of Commons debate, Liberal Democrat Evan Harris claimed axeing...
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Official: loan cash switched to FE
DAVID Blunkett's special adviser has admitted that money for undergraduate loans has been switched from higher education to help shore up further education. Adviser Conor Ryan confirmed this week...
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University health and safety cash to fall
More students and fewer staff are forecast in higher education over the next few years, while buildings are plunging intodisrepair. A study to be published by the Higher Education Funding Council for...