A Europe-based consortium is seeking money to build a polar research ship as the European Commission considers promoting studies into the North Pole. If the commission approves the idea of a...
Buenos Aires. A former rector of the University of Buenos Aires faces up to six years in prison for not declaring eight properties in the US, adding to the woes of Argentina's biggest university....
Africa has had great universities. Higher education on our continent stretches back to Ancient Egypt, where the temples imparted knowledge not only to Africans, but also to many of those who were to...
Depression has set in since George W. Bush won another four years, but every cloud has a silver lining. Last week began rather well. One of my PhD students passed his viva, my group was shortlisted...
1970s 1971 : Take on part-time teaching at the local college. Seems like fun, and the students are much nicer than the "suits" I meet in the day job. 1972 : Interview for a full-time post. Principal...
Unions exist to stir things up, and often their leaders suffer from delusions of omnipotence. Not so Paul Mackney, general secretary of lecturers' union Natfhe, who gave guests at a House of Commons...
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee will go to great lengths to court controversy. Even to Italy, it seems. Not content with stoking a row with the Government this week over open-...
Paul Boateng, the Treasury's chief secretary, may have been making smooth assurances to the Science and Technology Committee last week that his department is not trying to seize control of the UK...
Anyone who feels that research isn't glamorous clearly isn't working at the University of West of England or University College London. The two institutions announced this week that they have forged...
This is the second essay I have written on prohibition. My first was completed 50 years ago for a school history project. As a consequence of my grandfather having been the American federal judge who...
... is what's on offer to UK science. John Enderby notes that there is no such thing as a free lunch. The research councils are vying to get the biggest slices of the Government's forthcoming science...
RAE mania holds back the UK in World University Rankings, insists Chris Barnard. Now hardly seems an auspicious time to approve of things American. Neither does one want to endorse yet another tier...
Tim Birkhead is suffering from information overload - perhaps it's time to switch off I have just returned from a five-day conference. Back in the office I turn on my computer with a sense of dread....
It might be unwise to betray nervousness or to be a smart alec in an interview, but annoying a panel member could turn out to be a clever move, says Harriet Swain. There are two good things about...
Never assume, however thoroughly you've tested it, that technology will work as it should - especially at the start of the academic year. During induction week, I scheduled a training session in a...