Sceptics discover predictable results in ESP study
One of the largest probes into the possible existence of extrasensory perception has found no evidence of the phenomenon despite the involvement of ,856 participants. The Mind Machine experiment,...
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Harvard drops Paulin's talk
Harvard University has cancelled a lecture by Oxford academic and poet Tom Paulin after complaints about his criticisms of Israel. Mr Paulin had been due to speak to the English department last night...
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Canny spin-off hailed as trendsetter
Australia's first private university spin-off from a public university has been praised as an original that could start a trend. The UK Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, which tracks...
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Vigilante students tackle skinheads
Students at Voronezh University in Russia have set up a vigilante unit to protect overseas students from racist attacks by local skinheads. Muggings of students of non-European origin by local...
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Chinese to curb PC use by night owls
Beijing's Tsinghua University has banned first-year students from taking personal computers into dormitories because of fears they will lurk late into the night in internet chatrooms. The university...
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Leap over the RAE to a new way of assessment
How should research be assessed? Gareth Roberts urges those who have an opinion to contact his review panel Researchers, policy-makers and higher education managers face a collective challenge. We...
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Save us and set us fee
While the government considers whether to allow top-up fees as a solution to the financial crisis facing universities, it is easy to forget why Labour introduced tuition fees. Thank goodness, then,...
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Tied up with strange journals
An update has arrived from the search for the world's most outstandingly obscure journals. Jonathan Adams, managing director of consultants Evidence, was called in to validate the publications...
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Spirited suggestion
An email has arrived from Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and spiritual founder of University College London, who is campaigning against the speed of its proposed merger with Imperial College London....
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Objections to sworn statement
Christopher Todd Brown is suing the University of California, Santa Barbara, after it refused him a masters degree. Mr Brown included the phrase "**** you" in the "disacknowledgements" section of his...
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V-c pays for scholarship
Vice-chancellors who pump their alumni for cash for scholarships have been set an example by Diana Green, who is funding one herself as part of Sheffield Hallam University's tenth anniversary...
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Don's diary: Rubber possums at the ready
Sunday Touchdown in Adelaide at 6.30am. Customs staff sport a spray of flowers as a sign of respect for the Bali bomb victims. The arrivals hall is packed with relatives of the Australians on the...
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Why I...believe universities need more awareness of ethics in fundraising
"The moral high ground of the uninvolved" is a term Sir Adrian Cadbury uses to refer to the popular debate on corporate governance. He should know. His Cadbury Report almost invented modern...
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A rethink required
Imposing private-sector management on higher education is a mistake, argues David Robertson. Government comments on management quality in higher education have been followed by squawks of injured...
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Comrades, we are on your side
A union campaign to name and shame 'fat-cat' London v-cs is misdirected and dangerous, writes Deian Hopkin. Industrial relations in higher education is an odd business, especially where money is...