'Illegal' hours hit doctors' training
Junior doctors are forced to work an illegal number of hours and are not left enough time for training, their professional association has claimed. One in three newly qualified doctors will find...
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Universities urged to circulate research and bypass journals
Universities should take responsibility for scholarly communication out of the hands of publishers by creating their own institutional repositories, writes Caroline Davis. The Scholarly Publishing...
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'Cheated' students may sue
Students may sue Birmingham University over staff cuts they say threaten the quality of their courses. All 12 academics in the department of cultural studies and sociology have taken voluntary...
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PhD researcher gave anonymity to child abusers
A PhD student at Glasgow University is facing a police investigation and possible dismissal from his course after guaranteeing confidentiality to men confessing to the sexual abuse of children....
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Slugs displace bunnies in the lab
Over the past decade, the Spanish slug Arion lusticanus has been invading central Europe, displacing indigenous slugs and destroying crops. But the physiology of the slimy aggressor could prove to be...
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Whistleblowers: Ofsted report seals fate of Birmingham college
North Birmingham College is to be consigned to the history books after the publication today of a fiercely critical Ofsted inspection report. The college will be merged with neighbouring Sutton...
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Analysis: Good teachers or great stage managers?
The overall results of the TQA show that higher education teaching has improved. But, asks Phil Baty, is this genuine or have departments learnt how to pull the wool over the assessors' eyes? Less...
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Findings: Why no job can mean no wife
Rising unemployment rates make men redundant in more ways than one, according to research from the University of Ulster. Vani Borooah of the school of economics and politics has used government data...
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Findings: 'Harmless' bug may be killer
A seemingly harmless parasite carried by a large percentage of the population could be responsible for up to 1 million road fatalities every year worldwide, according to researchers in the Czech...
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Foreign visits at risk of legal hangovers
Universities need to improve the way they handle study and work placements overseas or risk exposure to costly lawsuits, according to new research. A survey of 56 institutions found that although the...
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Principals warn against spin-off frenzy
Universities Scotland is warning against "distorting" teaching and research in a bid to boost commercialisation. The higher education principals' submission to the Scottish Executive's review of...
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São Paulo
Students at the Universidade de São Paulo's faculty of philosophy, letters and human sciences ended a three-month strike and returned to lectures this week. The students, who had been pressing for...
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Munich
The European Patent Office has closed a loophole that meant it was theoretically possible to clone human beings in Europe after complaints about a patent granted to the University of Edinburgh and...
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Staff crisis for ageing Italy
Almost half of Italy's 55,000 university lecturers will retire over the next 15 years and no new generation is ready to take their place. The National Committee for Evaluation of the University...
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Bombing fails to deter foreigners
Foreign students at Jerusalem's Hebrew University have shown little inclination to leave despite last week's bomb that killed seven and wounded 97, according to university officials. Steve Kaplan,...