Can a political crisis be measured? Is there a quantitative way to compare long-running tensions between India and Pakistan with US reactions to the Cuban missile crisis? Michael Brecher, founder of...
Rome Italian premier Giuliano Amato has taken over the universities ministry following the resignation of Ortensio Zecchino, minister since 1998. Mr Zecchino left to campaign for a new political...
Universities that lack a real sense of mission will lose their vaunted position in society, argues Brenda Gourley. In The English - A Portrait of a People , Jeremy Paxman describes how he asked the...
As higher education caters for increasing numbers of students, the funding situation is becoming critical, writes Diana Green. Higher education confronts government with a dilemma. As with the...
Fixed-term contracts and financial insecurity are no way to treat committed staff, insists Chris Kynch. Many employers have learnt from the downsizing of the early 1990s that insecure contracts do...
Should students be made umpires in an academic wage contest? Frank Furedi thinks not. Politicians seem to find it difficult to have any constructive ideas about higher education. Education ministers...
One of the biggest omissions from the select committee's report on access to higher education is any discussion of student financial support. Yet reforms to the student funding system herald some of...
From next week's American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Francisco. Joan Lorden looks at how the University of Alabama at Birmingham has grown into a billion-dollar...
An experiment with light speed showed that a pulse sent through a certain type of cell appeared to exit the cell before it entered. Logic is the foundation of modern science and it requires that...
From next week's American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Francisco. The internet has changed the way we communicate. John Connolly believes the access grid could change the...
Project and exam results tell different stories, so they should be kept separate, argues Howard Allen. Teaching structural engineering over a period of years involves a lot of time spent marking...
Esther Leach talks to a former detective chief inspector who has hung up his truncheon to teach police how to deal with death as coroner's officers. Death has always been a big part of Denis Clark's...
I am noticing that attendance at my 9 o'clock lecture is starting to dwindle as the term progresses. I do not think I am that boring, so what can I do? Two tactics can help: keep them busy and link...
There may be more lifelong learning going on than generally thought, but it can mean substantial financial penalties rather than economic gains, a Scottish lifelong learning conference has warned....
Hull University is interested in buying the campus to be vacated by the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside when it relocates the bulk of its academic and administrative activities to Lincoln....