Supersizing on the Seine
Paris. The American University of Paris, the oldest US institution of higher education in Europe, is to launch its first masters programmes and is planning a big increase in student enrolments. "We'...
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NZ lures foreign PhDs
Wellington. Many foreign doctoral students and their children coming to study in New Zealand will pay the same for their education as the locals from next year. The Government will pay the same...
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Star staff cosseted in bid to up RAE rating
Top researchers are being given special treatment by their universities to maximise their chances of securing a new "stellar international" research rating in the run-up to the toughest ever research...
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On Her Majesty's scientific service
Over the years, secret agent and lothario James Bond has got away with some dodgy chat-up lines. But now, thanks to an Oxford University academic who has set herself up as a science consultant to...
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'I'm honoured. if you are nominated your peers trust your judgement'
Professor Wendy Flavell is one of the first women nominated to judge physicists in the next RAE. Wendy Flavell, professor of surface physics at Manchester University, is one of the first women to be...
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Female panellists
Anna Dominiczak of Glasgow University (cardiovascular medicine); Rosalind Smyth of Liverpool University (other hospital-based clinical subjects); Valerie Beral of Oxford University (epidemiology and...
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White activist qualifies as 'black'
A white Jewish lecturer has revealed how he had to declare himself "black" to join an equal opportunities committee of lecturers' union Natfhe. Barnet College lecturer Ronnie Fraser got himself...
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Big three boast most RAE judges
Redbrick institutions dominate the 2008 review panels. Anthea Lipsett reports. Manchester has joined Oxford and Cambridge as the universities with the most judges for the next research assessment...
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Industry members add 'unique blend of experience'
The academic community's fear that panel members from industry will place too much emphasis on applied research is unfounded, according to Barry Furr, chief scientist at AstraZeneca, writes Anthea...
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Theory of the killer-instinct in our genes dismissed as 'bullshit'
We are all hardwired to murder, and any one of us could kill if the circumstances were right, a US scientist has claimed. In a book due to be published later this month, evolutionary psychologist...
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Next week
Blue planet In her first UK newspaper article, feminist scholar Catharine MacKinnon reveals how the advance of pornography is poisoning our world.
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Former fee sceptic gets top job in rejig
Bill Rammell - former tuition fees sceptic, former student union official and now holder of one of Labour's most marginal parliamentary seats - has been appointed Higher Education Minister in Tony...
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Truly inspirational?
What does the boss from hell of a paper merchants in Slough have to do with the new Higher Education Minister, Bill Rammell?, writes Paul Hill. Before Mr Rammell became honourable member for Harlow,...
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Early move to lift cap on top-ups looks unlikely as Labour rebels return to Commons in force
An early move by Downing Street to lift the cap on tuition fees looked politically impossible this week as enough Labour rebels were returned to Parliament to ensure defeat for the Government if it...
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Campus vote packs punch in marginals
The campus vote tipped the balance in five out of ten marginal seats identified by The Times Higher as being vulnerable to a swing in academics' and students' allegiance, writes Paul Hill. The...