Super sleuths fight heavy crimewave
Student super sleuths are springing into action on university campuses around the world in an attempt to combat crime. Last month Southampton University hosted the first international congress on...
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Time to lock horns on the beauty debate
Despite being apparently only skin-deep, the notion of human beauty raises some profoundly disturbing issues. For the skin itself is deceiving, according to the French artist, Orlan, who appeared at...
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Scots are not so different
Olga Wojtas and Huw Richards report from the Political Studies Association annual conference in Glasgow. Scots have been basking in the afterglow of Braveheart, the biopic of 13th century patriot...
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Swedish left share British Tories' Euroscepticism
The Euroscepticism of part of the Conservative right has found an echo in a very different traditional governing party, the Swedish Social Democrats. But the British rebels have been much more...
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Islam reaches into Africa
The Islamic nations of the Middle East are exerting an influence on sub-Saharan Africa comparable to that of western institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, according...
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No real consensus on the old politics
Assumptions that there was a post-war, pre-Thatcher political settlement owe more to A. A. Milne than to Machiavelli, said Peter Kerr of Birmingham University. He compared the assumption to Winnie...
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Sleep perchance to study dreams
Searches for an explanation of consciousness that do not take into account the complexities of dreaming are doomed to failure, according to psychologist Steven LaBerge. In fact the study of lucid...
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Great minds, hard problem
A man from India said that he thought he knew the problem with last week's Tucson 2 conference, Towards a Science of Consciousness. The delegates and speakers, he said, came from far too narrow a...
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Phantoms of the operating theatre
Advances in the scientific study of pain could provide crucial insights into how consciousness relates to the body and the self, according to Richard Chapman of Washington University. Professor...
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A parrot learns to count, after a fashion
Scientists claimed to have taught a parrot to count items and identify objects and colours. The grey parrot, called Alex, was cited as an example of how complex cognitive capacities existed in a...
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Draft leak blows ill wind
Revelations about a draft report commissioned by French education minister Francois Bayrou have overshadowed his launch of a vast university consultation process decided upon last autumn to appease...
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Bosnians decry lack of support
Europe's handling of the crisis in Bosnia-Herzegovina was sharply criticised at a meeting of Bosnian and Austrian higher education officials in Austria. Academics are also wary of the way that...
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Students demand more power
Students at the University of Zagreb in Croatia have protested against legislation on student unions due to go before parliament later this month. The government, they say, drew up the bill without...
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Scientific hands bound by laws
Too many laws and regulations are suffocating research in Germany and preventing scientists from competing with advances in other countries such as the United Kingdom, according to leading scientists...
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Coalition cuts cause chaos
Australia's higher education system is facing massive disruption as unions renew their campaign for substantial pay rises. Staff believe that the new coalition government, which has announced cuts of...