Court frees suspect in murder of academic
THES reporters survey a worrying human rights situation in Latin America A Guatemalan appeals court has overturned the conviction of a suspected author of the plot to kill academic Myrna Mack Chang...
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Nudes secure union cover
Nude models at a US art school have voted to join a union as a means of forcing the university to pay attention to professional hazards such as cold rooms and charcoal dust. Administrators at Moore...
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Moonlighting stars exposed
An Italian student magazine has been inundated with complaints about academics who neglect their teaching duties to spend large amounts of time on contract work in private universities. University...
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Religious president resigns after report reveals bogus MA
The president of a Christian university in the Southern US has resigned after a student journalist assigned to write a profile about him discovered that he had never received his claimed masters...
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Ottawa
Canada's Institutes of Health Research will accept funding applications for embryonic stem-cell research despite the lack of a definitive legal framework.
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Nairobi
Police who found a cache of arms in a student's room at the University of Nairobi, said some had been used in robberies. The main suspect is still at large.
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Brussels
The European Commission has launched a biotechnology website for debates about the field and related issues. It also includes a database of experts, a library and other information. Detail: http://...
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Rome
Italy's National Research Council, National Astrophysics Institute and the Italian Space Agency are under emergency government administration pending reorganisation. Last week, the head of the...
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Bouake
Students in Côte d'Ivoire's second largest university town protested against the invalidation of this academic year because of disruption caused by civil war.
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'Big idea' plucked from a bad old Tory ideology
The Conservatives' latest plan to win votes serves neither higher education nor society, says Margaret Hodge Last week saw another bungled attempt by the Tories to recapture voters' confidence. As...
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Bluffing brothers are two of a kind
"Feeling lucky, Jim?" David Leigh's question was more loaded than a gentle inquiry as to his brother's frame of mind and inclination to gamble. It was a ploy: an opening jab in psychological warfare...
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In the news: Bridget Ogilvie
Dame Bridget Ogilvie has had her differences with the Royal Society. She resigned as chair of the Committee on Public Understanding of Science in 2002, accusing the society of fighting a new strategy...
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Hodge: we will control market
The government may cut funding for student places at newer universities that decide to charge the full £3,000 top-up fee in order to save its higher education policy from collapse, it emerged this...
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Seven-year wait for graduate pay
It takes up to seven years for students to get jobs that pay a graduate premium, according to a study. And those from old universities have a head start over those from higher education colleges and...
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AUT: why should we teach racists?
Lecturers are demanding the right to refuse to teach students who express racist or fascist views, or who are known members of far-right political groups. The Association of University Teachers is...