The pursuit of knowledge and freedom of speech are being undermined by campus activists, writes Daphne Patai Nothing is as destructive to higher education as threats from within - threats that derive...
Architects, in thinking of themselves as artists, too often seem to overlook the role people play in their grand designs I had a "Sebastian" moment this summer. It felt just like that scene in...
So David Secher, Cambridge University's research director, has been appointed chief executive of N8 - the partnership of research-intensive northern universities that aims to seriously ruffle the...
There were reports of serious unrest among the governing council of University College London this week. Another row over the college's rebranding? A debate about the future of the federal University...
A veil of secrecy has descended, it seems, over the art adorning the walls of Bristol University. The Times Higher asked all universities for information about their art collections for a feature in...
A pointed Parliamentary question from David Cameron, the Tory leadership hopeful and shadow education secretary, appears to have backfired. He asked when was it decided that August 1, 2005 should be...
Lord Horatio Nelson, who died defeating the Napoleonic fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805, had an elaborate funeral at St Paul's Cathedral. It was the first state ceremony for...
The other day, a balding thirtysomething academic sat on a bench in central London reading a fictitious newspaper. Despite the cold, he read the same pages - which contained nothing but gibberish -...
To become transliterate, publishers need to start a dialogue with e-learners, Sue Thomas says Transliteracy. It's another of those new usages for old concepts. It was originally applied to the...
We must be helpful, honest and forthright when dealing with overseas students, says Tom Thomas For those of us grappling with international marketing and overseas targets, this year's 22.5 per cent...
Brussels, October 2005 Supported by the EU Research Framework Programme, influenza experts from the UK, Italy and Norway, working with vaccine researchers from Sanofi Pasteur in France, have...
Brussels, Oct 2005 By approving on Wednesday a joint resolution on the patenting of biotechnological inventions, Parliament confirmed its support for biotechnology, but only within an appropriate...
Munich, Oct 2005 Full text "The EPO follows the EU's Directive on biotechnology patents" The European Patent Office (EPO) has noted the concern that several groups in the European Parliament have...
Brussels, Oct 2005 A roadmap which suggests how agent-based computing could develop over the next decade has been launched, presenting a vision of the development of this technology, its application...
Brussels, Oct 2005 An agreement on space-based information services and access to, and provision of, Earth observation data was signed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Commission's Joint...