Lecturers to ask the audience
Audience voting keypads like those used on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? could become standard in lecture theatres across the UK and could push academics to change the way they teach, it was...
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Congress scrutinises payout
The US Congress is scrutinising a cash prize awarded by a leading university to the former head of a government research institute who had just resolved a legal action in its favour. The University...
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Development scheme wins over doubters
A West African university has overcome staff and student hostility to launch pioneering community links that involve all its students living for two months in a disadvantaged area. The government of...
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Swedish academics gaining ground on student plagiarists
Sweden is catching student cheats in increasing numbers, according to the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education. Its annual report reveals a 116 per cent rise in the numbers being disciplined...
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Scientist's acquittal in spy case overturned
The Russian supreme court has overturned the jury acquittal of a Siberian space scientist tried last year on spy charges. Human rights groups called the move a step backwards for democracy. Valentin...
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Historian pushes for write-off of donations
An Italian historian with links to Cambridge University and the London School of Economics is behind a move to make donations for research and scholarships tax deductible. Giovanni Aldobrandini, a...
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French abandon careers for teaching
France's disillusioned middle-aged professionals are giving up their careers with private companies to retrain as schoolteachers in a welcome boost for higher education institutions. Lyon's teacher-...
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Reform veto met by anger
Students at religious schools in Turkey are angry at the president's decision to veto a reform that would have abolished a law discriminating against them in university entrance exams. But President...
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Skills tests may be made the rule
Australian universities may be required to publish test information showing how prepared their graduates are for the world of work. Federal education minister Brendan Nelson said Australian employers...
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Why we all make capital from this great city
It's the nation's incubator, so don't resent its success - a strong London is good for everyone, say Jane Glanville and David Rhind Britain has been deconstructed since 1997. The reality of...
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Gary Day
If they do it in the US, we do it soon after. Take psychometric testing, for instance, that meaningless measure of the man What does it say about my life that I am so easily distracted? No sooner do...
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Forewarned is forearmed
Researchers who have any involvement with the Department for International Development are rarely complimentary about the department's grasp of science. And many have been looking forward to a...
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Miss Piggy in Hi-Ya education?
Kermit the Frog was roped in to sex up last week's conference about "planning tomorrow's higher education learning environments". Academics and senior administrators looked bemused when pictures of...
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A CBE if you fit me in this week
With people queueing round the block to try to get a National Health Service dental appointment, it seems the powers that be are trying to curry favour with overstretched dental academics. Michael...
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Kill the King, we need a 'name'
King Alfred may have had a reputation for being great, but apparently that's just not the right image for a university college. Hampshire's newest institution launched this week, having changed its...