Leagues expose lecturers' quality quirks
At the end of the academic year in Israel's universities, league tables of the marks given by students to their lecturers are displayed in corridors and common rooms. Apart from their obvious role as...
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Castro relaxes grip on jobs
Cubans with academic qualifications will be allowed to engage in private enterprise, according to a new ruling of the ministry of labour and social security. But there is a major restriction. They...
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Ways and Mensa to get ahead
Warwick University is making a bid to recruit students with the highest IQ by collaborating with Mensa on a series of short degree-accredited courses. Mensa, the society for people with high IQs...
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OST inquiry
The transfer of the Office of Science and Technology to the Department of Trade and Industry will be the subject of an inquiry by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, as part of an...
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Farmers look ahead to see woods and trees
Welsh farmers are re-examining their use of land because agriculture profits are forecast to fall and returns from forestry expected to increase. To prevent Wales following Languedoc in Southern...
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Nuclear threat to volcano
A French vulcanologist has warned that more nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific could cause the collapse of a flank of the extinct underwater volcano, leading to a big release of...
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Plea to stop Sarajevo brain drain
A Bosnian World University Service official has made an urgent plea to step up aid for Sarajevo University. Vesna Besirevic, who heads WUS Sarajevo office, is visiting countries in western Europe...
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Working out: Scottish rugby international Gavin Hastings
(Photograph) - Working out: Scottish rugby international Gavin Hastings this week reopened Glasgow University's indoor sports facilities after a 15 month, Pounds 4.5 million refurbishment. The...
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Quality teaching premium proposal
English universities are to be asked whether a teaching quality premium should be included in a revised teaching funding formula. The question is included in a consultation document issued this week...
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Rebel yell at vulgarity
Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko explains to Radhakrishnan Nayar how capitalism has polluted Russian culture At the end of an hour-long interview over breakfast at the Charing Cross Hotel, Yevgeny...
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The ascendancy of man
Roger Penrose tells Kam Patel why he thinks human beings will always be cleverer than computers and why we need a new physics Most of us at times will come across some aspect of the physical world...
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Alf, the cinder fella
Simon Targett reports on how a dispute among medieval historians over the authenticity of King Alfred's biography (Asser's Life) has grown from an argument about burnt cakes into a flaming row about...
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Part of the equation
Will the Budget revive demands to rethink higher education funding? Ann Hanson, David Smith and Ian Pyper want a model based on part-time students' needs. Earlier in the year it looked as though The...
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No more local heroes?
I was interested to see Anthea Millett's article, which was written before the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers had prepared its response to the publication of the Coopers and...
