Yellow cards in action
University departments that fail any aspect of new quality assessment gradings will face funding council sanctions unless they can show an improvement within a year. This week the Higher Education...
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Don't even think it
The embezzling organiser of a fund for philosophers portrayed in Tibor Fischer's The Getaway Lunch provides Sideswipe no 89: "There are those who will say I was blocking those with talent from...
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Applied truths
Feedback, the newsletter of Dundee University's department of applied physics and electronic and mechanical engineering, has been plundering the American journal Manufacturing Engineering for one-...
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Teesside tee hee
Never ones to miss out on a craze, the University of Teesside -- the people who brought you adverts in Viz and the peculiar exploits of Teesside Ted and his toilet duck -- have sent out a "Magic Eye...
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Mixed message on vocational parity
The campaign to win parity of esteem with A levels for vocational qualifications was in jeopardy this week after an international audience of educationists in Brighton. Ministers from different...
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Light relief for star gazers
Cambridge astronomers, who have been battling with the sports fraternity over proposed floodlights at the university's new athletics track, have reached a compromise. But a further battle looms over...
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A charm spinning in blood
There are many films which include images of the swastika; in Leni Riefenstahl's notorious Triumph of the Will the city of Nuremberg is transformed into a "swastika world". Less well known, however,...
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Dilemma of kissing cousins
The science of human genetics appears to be taking a "social" turn, with the blessings of Britain's biggest backers of biomedical research. The Medical Research Council has begun to fund studies into...
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Prospect of fool's gold
This year the 16th congress of the International Political Science Association was held in Berlin. The congresses take place every three years with about 2,000 participants from every part of the...
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Jewish masters launched
The University of Potsdam has introduced Germany's first master's degree in Jewish studies with special emphasis on Jewish-German history. The course opens just as racism has reared its ugly head...
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Delors keeps his secret
France's best-kept publishing secret of the year -- a book on Jacques Delors in the build-up to the presidential election -- took Paris by surprise last week. It was the work of an academic,...
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Saudi promises aid to Albania
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Islamic Affairs, Abdullah Bin Abd al-Mushin al-Turki, last week promised extensive aid to education in Albania. During discussions with Albania's education minister, al-...
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Return of the native
Rita Levi Montalcini lives in a top-floor apartment in Rome, five minutes walk from the university and the National Research Council. The grande dame of Italian scientific research is protected from...
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Plagiarist professor stripped of title
Else Kay Hoffmann, an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen's August Kroh Institute, was stripped of her doctorate last week because she copied other researchers' written works. An...