Students spark drive for a punctual Peru
Students at a university in Peru have inspired an entire nation into making a solemn commitment to being punctual. In December, students marched through the streets of Lima chanting the benefits of...
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US sees drift to Left on campus
US university students are starting to move to the Left after years of conservative drift, polarising American campuses. An annual study found that first-year students were discussing politics more...
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Four-legged fiend?
(Photograph) - Indonesian pet owners are being warned that they are at greater risk of catching bird flu than the general population because the virus is most likely to mutate in cats. Scientists...
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Software spots likely dropouts
Databases are being used to identify and target students most at risk ofquitting. Anastasia Moloney reports A software program has been developed to help cut Colombia's high undergraduate dropout...
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Jobless graduate numbers rocket
Unemployment rates for French students who finished their studies in 2001 were nearly double those for their predecessors who left higher education in 1998, according to a survey following young...
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Tokyo keen to raise global science profile
Financial freedom to build foreign links is key to academic prestige, writes Nobuko Hara Tokyo University is on a mission to strengthen its international profile and "establish itself as a hub for...
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Curb on corruption
Outraged by yet another nepotism and malpractice scandal in an official concorso (competitive exam) to assign a teaching post, Italy's University Minister, Fabio Mussi, has undertaken to appear as...
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Union seeks code to ban short skirts
The Student Union of Bosnia's Tuzla University is campaigning to have miniskirts and low necklines banned from campus. They have appealed to the rector to preserve the dignity of the university by...
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Today's news
Applicants must say if parents are graduates The sons and daughters of graduates with good jobs face extra hurdles as they compete for university places under rules announced yesterday. From next...
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Sponsor profiles
GOLD SPONSOR: THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMYThe Higher Education AcademyThe Higher Education Academy’s role is to be a nationwide focus for enhancing teaching, learning and students’ experiences in...
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A vote for anarchy
The political philosopher Jacques Rancière would like to encourage the disruption of the normal order that is real democracy. Julian Baggini hears his campaign If you rage against the growth of...
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Dr Dai Llemmer
A reader writes: I was recently buttonholed in the rest rooms of the Athenaeum by a woman in dark glasses who said she was being interviewed for a named chair in biochemistry at a "discount-for-cash...
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Cross-fertilise and watch ideas bloom
Interdisciplinary working is on the rise, nowhere more than in health-related fields. Stephen Phillips meets a cancer research team, while Angela Shaw (below) shows the pitfalls awaiting new courses...
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There’s nothing original in a case of purloined letters
Plagiarism may seem a modern malaise, but accusations of ‘borrowing’ and outright theft of words and works were a scourge of 19th-century literary culture. Robert Macfarlane surveys opinion on...
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Conference index
Conferences, Issue no. 4 Published in The Times Higher on March 23 2007 Leader 'While e-conferencing may be environmentally friendly, virtual interaction is no substitute for the real thing'...