Poor rankings stymie graduate work prospects
A third of company directors refuse to recruit graduates from universities that are at the bottom of newspaper league tables, writes Jessica Shepherd. Research for the Institute of Directors reveals...
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Investors want spin-off delay
University entrepreneurs should wait up to a decade before spinning off companies - far longer than is the common practice now, venture capitalists have said. Fledgling companies should be kept under...
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Palestine wary of unequal dialogue
Unesco officials aim to bring Israeli and Palestinian academics to a round-table meeting next year to explore ways to revitalise universities in the Occupied Territories. They are convinced that a...
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Wiretap plan challenged
The US Government has ordered the country's universities to give law enforcement agencies easy access to their e-mail networks and other electronic communications. Universities have promptly sued to...
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Moral scrutiny sparks fury
Turkish police have put university students under surveillance after the Interior Ministry ordered all student activities to be monitored. The measures include spot checks on students in bars and...
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Murder prompts security review
International relations officers from Russian universities are to address student security after last month's murder of a Peruvian student in an apparently racist attack in Voronezh. Andrei Fursenko...
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Arab gets Haifa post
The first Arab dean of an Israeli institution has taken up his post at the University of Haifa, the target of an abortive academic boycott urged by activists in the Association of University Teachers...
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Freedom fears 'not an issue'
An Australian university has disputed claims that concerns over academic freedom threaten Warwick University's plans for a campus in Singapore. Warwick and the University of New South Wales were...
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Centre in misogyny row
France's National Science Research Centre, the CNRS, has been accused of misogyny after it appointed only one woman to its new board of 21 trustees. Researchers have begun a petition in protest...
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Throw a little light on a Dark Ages pay system
The criteria for performance-related pay need to be defined if the system is to be fair, argues Keith Soothill We have had the rhetoric of performance-related pay in academia for years - but its...
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Lords more than a match
Public relations staff at Sheffield Hallam University were reminded of the cardinal rule of publicity at their centenary dinner last week - never work with animals or television celebrities. Lord...
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Funding council captain ahoy
Rumour has it that the only two contenders seriously considering taking the helm of the Higher Education Funding Council for England - a ship that some senior figures are expecting to sink without...
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Can't get no satisfaction?
The Government did much crowing about the unexpectedly high response rate to the first-ever National Student Satisfaction Survey, unveiled in September. But reports are emerging of students who were...
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Ranking and yanking
King's College London started it with their term "ASDA" - the university equivalent of anti-social behaviour orders. Academics are categorised according to their research prowess and those not...
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Promiscuous poetry and mental melodies
"Early humans had discrete intelligences for social activity, knowledge of nature technical knowhow. Creativity occurred when these overflowed into each other" LANGUAGE, POETRY AND THE BRAIN: ART AND...