Games people play to stay in research race
A 66-year-old professor at a Midlands university is under orders not to retire until the research assessment exercise is complete. Without his books and papers, the research productivity of his...
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'Deplorable' university pay increase rejected
University lecturers this week rejected a "full and final" 3 per cent pay increase, an improvement on the 2.5 per cent originally offered, but still lower than the offers made to teachers in schools...
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Knight's job score 'favours mediocre'
Managers at the University of Central England have drawn up an unprecedented points system for deciding which staff to make redundant. Union leaders were outraged when five lecturers in the built...
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Cubie reply promotes equality
The Scottish Executive will next week unveil plans to get rid of the anomalies in student support between higher and further education. It will publish its long-awaited full response to the Cubie...
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Gap year gets blessing of v-cs
Vice-chancellors think that students should defer entry to university to take a well-structured year out. Most vice-chancellors believe that both individuals and their institutions benefit from their...
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Culture clash
(Photograph) - Students barricaded in Cairo's Al-Azhar University are demanding the resignation of Egypt's culture minister for approving republication of a novel that they say insults Islam. A...
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Vacancies at Unesco test merit promises
Unesco's selection process for four top-level posts, including head of its education directorate, is presenting director-general Koichiro Matsuura with a test of his election promises to modernise...
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Florence asks for students' opinions
At the end of the academic year, all 62,000 students at Florence University will hand in their reports on the functioning of the university, including an evaluation of the academics who teach them....
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Uneasy neighbours agree to exchanges
Turkish and Armenian universities have signed an agreement that is seen as an important step towards helping to improve relations between the two countries, writes Dorian Jones. Turkey's University...
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Germany shakes up courses to expand pool of IT graduates
German chancellor Gerhard Schroder has announced plans for a E51 million (Pounds 30 million) programme to modernise informatics courses at universities and Fachhochschulen to help the country...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a fanciful, musical work: " To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well...
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Etruscan history gets a rewrite
Tabula Cortonensis
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A flock of exotic birds in South Kensington
A Grand Design - Vision and Accident
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Right and wrong ways to grow
Patterns of Artistic Development in Children - Antisocial Behaviour By Young People - The Cradle of Knowledge
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Let me dream a little dream for you
The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism