Welsh face cash choice
Welsh universities and colleges have been presented with a choice of two systems to make research funding more selective. Resources for postgraduate research will focus on areas rated at 3 or above...
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Mad tie disease
Though scientists are traditionally supposed to be media-shy, some are positively enjoying all the publicity over mad cow disease. Leeds maverick Richard Lacey - who starts with the advantages of a...
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Essay winner
Barbara Spender is the first winner of the Menerva Trust/THES competition for the best essay on women in society, with an autobiographical perspective on women writers. She is a mature PhD student at...
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Medics flood wards and try patients
Calls for a new medical school to teach rising numbers of medical students were made by the British Medical Association this week. The association's annual meeting voted for a new school after it...
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It's fees or standards, says London chief
A clear choice between introducing top-up tuition fees and allowing standards to fall faces many of Britain's cash-starved universities, the vice chancellor of the University of London has claimed,...
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States of devolution and static friction
Anthony Cohen condemns the tidy-minded ethos of the Harris report and its especially baleful consequences for Scotland. The authors of the Harris report on postgraduate studies have quite missed the...
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Violence rocks South Africa
Student unrest has hit nearly a third of South Africa's 35 universities and technikons in the past two months in what many people believe has been a combination of student organisations flexing their...
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What a geek
Academics suffering from low self-esteem should stay out of earshot of Mark Jones, a specialist in Internet recruitment, if the Institute of Personnel and Development is to be believed. An IPD press...
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Kirk to enterprise
The Church of Scotland's education debate last week was enlivened by the tale of the kirk minister who turned up to address a Woman's Guild meeting, and found only three people in the audience. "Did...
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Cambridge on Spielberg's list
British actor Ralph Fiennes has negotiated a $50,000 donation from Steven Spielberg for a visiting lectureship in modern Jewish studies at Cambridge University. Fiennes, who starred in Schindler's...
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Refounding father
Pakistan, described as the third most corrupt country in the world, needs a saviour. Can Imran Khan and a Gandhiesque film of the country's founder, produced by a Cambridge academic, do the trick?...
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German push on 'tiger' market
Germany must make its higher education more attractive to foreign students - especially from Asian countries - if it is to earn a place on the international higher education map, says the German...
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Top v-cs lose council posts
Heavyweight vice chancellors have been voted off the ruling council of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. Sir Colin Campbell, vice chancellor of Nottingham, and John Stoddart,...
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