War of new campus
The University of Alicante and the Valencian regional government are locked in a bitter struggle over plans for a new institution in the city. In an outbreak of open warfare, Andres Pedre$o, Alicante...
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Insurance firms facecost of genetic secrets
People who know they have adverse genetic traits, but are not compelled to declare it to insurance firms, could expose the industry to extra costs, according to a study by Angus Macdonald of Heriot-...
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Ethicists tread the moral maze
Public concern over euthanasia, foetal pain, assisted fertilisation and gene therapy has left western ethicists working overtime to draw the elusive line between "right" and "wrong". But there will...
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Beware of the eco crisis mongers
WESTERN predictions of environmental crises caused by the feckless management of natural resources in developing countries are often inaccurate and misleading, British and United States scientists...
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Irish squeezed out with a tear
At least a third, and possibly half, of young people leaving Northern Ireland to study on the mainland do so reluctantly, claims Ulster University. Students are being forced to leave because of an...
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There was Nel, Nel . . .
Warm congratulations to the publishers of The Science Reporter, august organ of the Association of British Science Writers, for a classic display of the havoc that can be wrought by omitting a single...
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Skulking admiration
International misunderstandings No. 357: an eastern European academic, visiting Edinburgh for a higher education conference, congratulated his hosts on the attractiveness of the city's prostitutes....
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Degree critic faces legal action
A lecturer who circulated criticisms of business degree programmes franchised in Singapore by a British university is facing legal action. The Management Development Institute of Singapore terminated...
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Beyond their Ken
(Photograph) - Labour MPs Ken Livingstone and Tony Benn have lent their weight to a student campaign of opposition to tuition fees. Mr Livingstone said that to impose fees "would create a two-tier...
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Japan faces number crunching future
World market success is forcing a once tightly knit nation to unwind. Tony Tysome takes a look Leaders of Japanese higher education are fighting to avert a financial and educational crisis they fear...
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Modules stir mixed reception
universities and colleges are increasingly adopting modularisation - the movement now involves around 90 per cent of the sector - but the way it is being introduced is causing resentment among staff...
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'Skewed' Ofsted reading report slammed
University of London academics who shot holes in a report on children's reading standards by the Office for Standards in Education say the organisation needs a few basic lessons in research technique...
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Sir Ron tells colleges: you must sell yourselves
The vast majority of employers still need convincing that university graduates are worth hiring, Sir Ron Dearing said this week. Sir Ron, giving details of the early progress of his higher education...
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The theatre with quite a good library attached
A missed train and a Canadian academic's passion for the Elizabethan theatre have brought a unique collection of 3,000 books on the Shakespearean theatre to London's Globe complex. In 1969 Don Rowan...