Wales could see return of grant
Students from Wales could become the most generously supported in the UK under new proposals being considered by the Welsh Assembly this week. If adopted, students would be entitled to a non-means-...
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V-cs urge cash fillip
Welsh vice-chancellors renewed pleas for a major cash injection from the Assembly this week as a new funding council report revealed the declining financial state of higher education in the country,...
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Draw the line at copying? Not him
Stephen Farthing is on a mission to help teach British students how to draw. But what may seem an obvious pursuit for the first Rootstein Hopkins professor of drawing at Chelsea College of Art and...
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Reforms cause conflict
A year after Japan's 89 national universities became independent, friction between faculties and the new executive bodies that have taken over the running of institutions is evident. In one case,...
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Reality TV offers tests and teasers for college fees
Reality TV has come to campus with a US series that pits students against each other for the prize of full university tuition fees in what is being called "the first show ever to celebrate higher...
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Learning grinds to halt in row over quality regime
Greek academics and students brought universities to a standstill for three days in protest against the Government's commitment to a Bologna-style quality assessment system and other elements adopted...
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A$1.5bn with strings brings Australians out on streets
Thousands of Australian academic staff stopped work and held rallies last week in protest against federal Government plans to impose industrial relations changes on their sector. Eight unions with...
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U-turn on stem cells fails to stir scientists
Scientists at American universities were largely indifferent to last month's unexpected congressional decision to allow research using stem cells from embryos created by in vitro fertilisation,...
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Hunger strike in split Italy
Thirty Italian scientists, doctors and academics are staging a hunger strike in protest against what they call biased reporting in the Government-controlled media in the run-up to this week's...
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French fears over bioethics law draft order
Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg, France's former Research Minister, has tabled a Bill to authorise research on therapeutic cloning and human embryo stem cells. His initiative coincides with scientists'...
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Liberté, égalité and a few Polish plumbers
Politics runs through French veins but, laments Jim Shields, the debate on Europe was anything but revolutionary "You were once my hero," cried a voice from the floor. "Now I think you're an imbecile...
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Alison Wolf
It appears that many skills associated with high IQ are required for activities such as computer gaming and surfing the net Have you noticed how the national press has obsessions? At any one time,...
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João Magueijo sees pollen dance under einstein's disco ball
I wish I could be less cynical about the current fad of marrying science and art, but invariably the former provides the money, the latter the agenda, full stop. And I have seen numerous examples of...
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Flight of fancy
Swapping the title "MP" for "president" is a dream for most politicians - and the small matter of falling out with his party leader just before an election and losing his parliamentary seat has not...
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There's a time and a place...
Few can have escaped the problems facing chemistry, with university departments shutting all over the country and schoolchildren turning their noses up at the subject. But this week it became clear...