May Day turns nasty
Riot police have clashed violently with students at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, Anastasia Moloney writes. Demonstrators were showing solidarity with striking oil workers and were...
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Rebels driven by rivalry not greed
Revenge and rivalry rather than greed and ideology encourage people to join armed rebel groups, according to Colombian scholars. Findings from the Crisis States Programme, which is funded by the...
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Cheats who phone a friend caught on screen
Academics at Zagreb University are on the lookout for students using hands-free mobile phone kits to cheat in examinations. Professors overseeing exams have been asked to keep computers switched on...
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Treasure trove on your doorstep - so unlock it
Universities must take more pride in their museums, which are key to achieving strategic goals, says Nichola Johnson University museums are potentially well placed to support their institutions'...
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Gary Day
Embracing the language and philosophy of business can only lead to dumb perversions in university culture I'm too old to be an angry young man and too young to be a grumpy old one. Neither of which...
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So driven
It was no surprise to see Rama Thirunamachandran, director of research at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, giving one of the opening speeches at the Research Administrators Group...
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Controversial, moi?
Following Dr Thirunamachandran onto the conference stage was another familiar higher education starlet, top-up fees rebel Ian Gibson. Dr Gibson, who has been accused of courting publicity, announced...
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Now you CMU it, now you don't
Academics love a good acronym. It is that little string of capital letters that makes an organisation feel weighty: Hefce, UUK, Natfhe, Birps (the British Institutions Reflection Profiling Syndicate...
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It's an eat-dog world for Tories
We dialled Tory higher education spokesperson Chris Grayling's pager number and a recording said: "You've reached Battersea Dogs Home. To eat your dog, press 29. To shoot your dog, press 54. If you'd...
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Reunited: 'my department is now a commercial enterprise'
Richard Hollingham studied applied and environmental biology at York University from 1988 to 1991 "The smell of York's biology department - a combination of microbial growth culture and industrial...
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Treasury bias clouds blue-skies science
Leading scientists are worried that some areas of research will be left out in the cold if the Treasury selects particular fields to be financially rewarded in its ten-year plan for science. Clinical...
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Cross address
(Photograph) - Cross address: comedian Eddie Izzard has backed students and staff fighting plans to close the University of East Anglia's languages and drama departments. Mr Izzard, who holds an...
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Chair is wheelie good to talk to
It will talk to you when you are feeling down, wheel you where you need to go and even contact your family if you need a hand. This is researchers' vision for "RoboChair" - a blueprint for an...
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Appointments
* The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils has announced the following management changes: Hywel Price is now director of CCLRC operations; Colin Whitehouse is now director of...
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CEN to Start a Biometrics Focus Group
Brussels, 20 May 2004 Biometrics is becoming increasingly important in today's society. Examples are the requirement for biometric identification mechanisms on travel documents and the use in...