The Swedish Government wants doctoral dissertations to be written in English to make research more accessible to the international community. Education Minister Leif Pagrotsky used a speech at the...
Spanish university students buy an average of 1.9 books a year and 42 per cent did not buy a single text or reference book last year, according to a poll by the Spanish Federation of Publishers (FGEE...
Europe's research-intensive universities have questioned the thinking behind plans for a European Institute of Technology on the model of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The challenge from...
As the poker craze sweeps across US university campuses, one student has figured out a novel way to make the most of his card-playing skills by winning a semester's tuition fees in his first poker...
Tony Thorne despairs of the pitiful patter induced by audit culture. Can't dons get their tongues round a few more syllables? More than once I have complained to colleagues that, in the 18 or so...
New Labour's proposal that universities spend precious time and funds operating 'trust schools' is a very odd notion Why would a university run a school? What reasons could it have for diverting...
One would understand if Lyn Link, human resources chief at London Metropolitan University, went into hiding. After one of the most bitter industrial disputes in recent years, the personnel supremo...
Watch out for Philip Cowley's triumphant grin if you are passing Nottingham University. The reader in parliamentary government finished his book, The Rebels , in the summer when the Prime Minister...
Oxford University's senior management is looking increasingly depleted. Registrar David Holmes takes early retirement next April and Anthony Weale, the academic registrar, retires next month. The...
Delegates at a libraries conference in China last Tuesday saw double. The School of African and Oriental Studies sent its official librarian for China along. But there was another - the slightly less...
Imagine, just when you thought you could escape the beady eye of management and type that ranting e-mail, the happy face of your boss pops up on your screen. This month, academics at Leeds University...
Embankment by Rachel Whiteread Tate Modern, London, until April 2, 2006 As you descend the ramp toward the depths of the Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern, Rachel Whiteread's Embankment is revealed as...
Even the appearance of conflicts of interest destroys society's trust in scientists, says Richard Horton Pity scientists in today's turbulent environment of conflicts of interest. They are pushed and...
What do environmental scientists and physicists think about the mooted rebirth of nuclear power? The UK should expand the use of nuclear power in the coming decades, according to a straw poll of...
Bob Brecher says there's more to the dumbing down debate than bums on seats versus quality. Although it's been running for a good few years, the "dumbing-down" debate shows little sign of going away...