Scottish inventor is hot stuff
Researchers at Paisley University have helped a local inventor develop a device aimed at combating chip pan fires, writes Olga Wojtas. Jim McConkey's revolutionary fire-proof chip pan was this week...
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Dutch subsidy 'too high'
Dutch students should pay significantly more for their higher education, according to a government economic think-tank. In a study of the role of knowledge in the Dutch economy, published last month...
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Fighting corruption top of Serb students' hitlist
Serb students have drafted a policy paper outlining their vision for the reform of post-Milosovic universities. The Desired University identifies seven areas for reform that emerged from a December...
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Finns target master plagiarists
Guidelines aimed at cutting plagiarism will be drafted in Finland during the coming spring to cover dissertations at universities and diploma work at technical universities. The move was triggered by...
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News in brief
Paris Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist and philosopher, has died aged 71. Director of studies at the EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences), he was elected to the Collège de...
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Argentine minister vows to tackle crisis
Graciela Giannettasio, Argen-tina's new education minister, has vowed that she will draw on all her experience, workaholic energies and deep Christian faith to resolve her country's long-running...
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Canada faces funding freeze
Universities in British Columbia are awaiting details of the implications of the province's decision to freeze its education funding for three years. And in Ontario, there is speculation that the...
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Unesco to help Afghan rebuild
It was a chilly Kabul day. On the gravel outside Kabul University's dormitory for female students, a sea of empty shell casings was scattered at our feet. In front of us, the facade of the once...
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In the news: Barbara Young
The chief executive of the Environment Agency, Barbara Young, this week welcomed the watershed report into food production and farming that called for reform of the European Union's common...
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Don's Diary
Saturday I address the Graduates Association's Annual Ball referring to our most celebrated alumnus, David Livingstone. My enjoyment of the evening is slightly marred by one colleague's disclosure of...
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Beware belly-aching
Several New York restaurants are suing Columbia University after a professor sent them letters falsely complaining of food poisoning to study how businesses respond to complaints. Francis Flynn, an...
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Is Frodo a postgrad?
A tale circulating by email draws an analogy between doing a PhD and The Lord of the Rings . Here is a shortened version, with apologies to the author. Senior professor Gandalf suggests that Frodo...
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Legal lust bust
A video cassette recovered after being stolen from the law faculty at University of Camerino in Italy was found to contain pornographic images of female graduate students. An unnamed law lecturer has...
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Supporting role
Daresbury Laboratory has cast itself in a new role as a props supplier after losing the Diamond synchrotron project to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. It has lent two models of DNA structures to...
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It's my art, doctor
Brian Hurwitz, professor of primary health care and general practice at Imperial College, London, has been appointed professor of medicine and the arts at King's College London, based in the English...