Do sceptics dream of projected sheep?
Something strange is going on in the early hours at University College Northampton. Researchers in UCN's new Centre for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes (CSAPP) sit watching video clips...
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MA tutors 'refuse to supervise critics'
Tutors at Sheffield University closed ranks and refused to supervise a group of masters students after the university upheld a series of complaints about the quality of their course, it was claimed...
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US pipe dreamer bags a degree
Texan student Norman Wigington's history degree from Strathclyde University is a by-product of his love of the bagpipes. Mr Wigington, known as Maddog, took up piping in the US despite having no...
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Elite Scottish trio back distant relative's title bid
Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Strathclyde universities are lending their reputations to the UHI Millennium Institute's bid to fast-track its application to become a university. UHI, a unique partnership of...
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Researcher donates £58m royalties to medical school
New York University's School of Medicine has been given $105 million (£58 million) in what is believed to be the largest philanthropic gift ever made by a staff member to a university. Jan Vilcek,...
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Urbino in cash crisis
The University of Urbino, one of Italy's oldest universities, faces financial collapse and may be forced to sell some of its historic buildings in the medieval town that has been its home since 1467...
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Poles ponder fee plan
Poland should introduce university tuition fees within eight years, according to a government strategy unveiled by Anna Radziwill, the Deputy Education Minister. Opposition politicians, students and...
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Rejected candidate wins £7k
The National University of Ireland Maynooth has been ordered to pay €10,000 (£6,900) to a candidate who was rejected for the post of professor of sociology. Ireland's Equality Tribunal found that...
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Monash defends study of terrorism
An Australian university has defended the right of academics and students to research terrorism after one of its students was questioned by police when he borrowed books on the Palestinian conflict....
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Victoria's fishy way to go green
There's something fishy in the water at the University of Victoria - literally. The toilets and urinals at the school's new medical building, on the west coast of Canada, recycle waste water from...
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Learn from our cultural kin how to reel it in
A trip to Canada convinced sceptic Jon Baldwin that the UK could catch up with North American fundraising Every so often UK universities are taunted by everyone from Gordon Brown to the popular press...
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Nancy Rothwell
UK universities must continue to take a risk with their research and not just opt for commercially beneficial projects I'm worried that we may be in danger of forgetting what universities are for and...
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Dress code is not out of kilter
At last it can be revealed - Cambridge University was forced to bow before the might of the Fraserburgh Herald newspaper. Earlier this year, the university tightened its graduation dress code,...
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Confident about that correction?
The tit-for-tat public relations war between the Association of University Teachers and Brunel University over plans to cut up to 60 academic posts has extended as far as The Guardian newspaper's...
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Wads not words important here
Struggling in clearing? Prospective undergraduates whose parents have A$100,000 (£42,000) burning a hole in their pockets could have found the perfect alma mater. This amount will buy students a "...