Vive the open PhD viva!
Ruth Morse advocates the French system of appraising doctoral students and appointing new lecturers All over France, doctoral students are struggling with their last revisions because they know they...
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World watch
Jakarta Hundreds of Islamic fundamentalist students attempted to storm Indonesia's parliament building, chanting their support for terrorist Osama bin Laden and holy war against the West. Riot police...
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Eyewitness: Qumran manuscripts enrich the Testaments
A new edition of the prestigious Jerusalem Bible, with changes in text and commentaries, is being prepared on the basis of recent studies of the Qumran manuscripts (Dead Sea Scrolls). The...
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Austria revamps
The European Investment Bank has announced that it will lend €100 million (£62.8 million) to an Austrian government construction agency to build and renovate university and school buildings. The...
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Minority wrangle ends in deadlock
The long-running dispute over university education for Romania's ethnic Hungarian minority is damaging diplomatic relations between Romania and Hungary, according to Romanian prime minister Adrian...
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Rise in salt levels sparks disaster fears in Turkey
The University of Dicle in southeast Anatolia is to work with the government to try to prevent environmental catastrophe in Turkey. Dicle's Bahattin Gumgum said the university had joined with the...
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Make out to make marks
More than a quarter (28 per cent) of students in Germany say they would have sex with a professor or lecturer if they thought it would improve their grades, according to a Playboy magazine survey of...
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Plans for £200m radiation-source centre under review
Researchers at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire are waiting to discover whether plans for a £200 million centre for radiation-source technology will be given the go-ahead. The original bid for...
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Scotland eyes US in major overhaul
Wendy Alexander, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, this week launched a review of higher education and pledged it would be put at the top of the Scottish Parliament's agenda....
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Students face visa delays
While first-year students bound for British universities from Pakistan face visa delays, the threat of a six-month moratorium on international students entering the United States has been lifted....
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Cash will aid local efforts
The University of Bath will use its share of £13.7 million knowledge transfer funding to create an enterprise and innovation centre, while the University of Leeds celebrates the opening of its £2.4...
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'Dubious' e-outfit sues Oz for £10m
A distance-education institution based on Norfolk Island is suing the Australian Council for Private Education and Training for defamation. Greenwich University, which offers degree courses over the...
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For the record
Lecturers attack UUK over ombudsman plans Lecturers’ leaders have attacked vice-chancellors for excluding staff complaints from their plans for a higher education ombudsman. Liz Allen, of lecturers’...
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Pioneer may smooth path for third-generation networks
Edinburgh University postgraduate Ben Hounsell, 26, has set up a spin off company that aims to make hand-held devices such as phones and digital cameras more flexible. The pioneering H3P technology...
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The shape of success
Loughborough University's only student spin-off company has signed a global licensing deal with an American brewer, writes Tim Greenhalgh. Ellula Sounds has produced what is believed to be the world'...