Who's in who's out?
GLASGOW Irene McAra-McWilliam, named as one of Design Weekly magazine's top 50 most influential design leaders, will join Glasgow School of Art as head of design at the end of the summer. She is...
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New chair to consolidate UEA's literary tradition
The School of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia has a back catalogue of lecturers and alumni that reads like a who's who of modern literature. Now the school, in which...
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Italian science threatened by stem-cell ban
Rome. Scientists fear that the failure of a referendum to overturn the law banning experiments using stem cells, will add to the difficulties facing Italy's already stagnant and underfinanced...
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Camps help fill campus coffers
Boston. The usual quiet of summer on US university campuses has been replaced by the hum of lectures, games, conversations in a Babel of languages, the sound of model rockets taking off and the...
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Humanities sees rebirth
Vilnius. The European Humanities University that was shut down last year by Belarusian President Alaksandr Lukashenka re-emerged this month as EHU-International in neighbouring Lithuania. President...
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Visa policy takes its toll on ߣߣÊÓƵn students
Melbourne. Visa-driven higher education policies may have distorting effects on the domestic market, with local students being the main losers, according to an ߣߣÊÓƵn researcher. But policy...
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Good lodges appeal from SA
Gaborone. The professor of political science who left Botswana after failing to convince the High Court that the country's president wrongly declared him a prohibited immigrant has lodged an appeal...
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Wine is bumped off le menu by cocktail of drugs
Paris. The average French undergraduate drinks little alcohol, doesn't smoke, but might pop a few pills during the course of studies, according to research. Only 2.8 per cent of interviewees said...
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Tutors join in student boozing
Dublin. Students are no longer alone in admitting to binge drinking - lecturers are getting in on the act, according to a study of four colleges by the Irish Health Promotion Unit. Half the students...
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Swiss investigate genocide denier
Istanbul. A Swiss prosecutor is heading an investigation into a Turkish academic suspected of violating anti-racism laws by denying the Armenian genocide. Yusuf Halacoglu made a speech last year in...
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Back our effort to defeat spectre haunting Africa
The G8 should join African students' fight against Aids, which robs the region of vital talent, says Mandisa Mbali. At an academic seminar a few years ago, I noticed that a student I knew had lost a...
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Robin Dunbar remembers having his mind blown
SUMMER OF LOVE: ART OF THE PSYCHEDELIC ERA. Tate Liverpool until September 25 I hadn't realised that I could be part of history so soon. Though, come to think of it, it was 40 years ago. The US phase...
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Heads for the hunting grounds
Are we about to witness another high-level recruitment scramble, with some truly juicy vice-chancellor positions hitting the headhunters' inboxes? Quite possibly. Bournemouth University's Gillian...
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Surprise guy
Tony Blair took the learned societies by surprise this week when he arrived unannounced at their parliamentary meeting about science and the G8. An official for the Royal Society of Chemistry, which...
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No eye for an 'i'?
A picture in lecturers' union Natfhe's magazine, The Lecturer , gets to the heart of the strike over pay at London Metropolitan University. One disheartened looking protester holds aloft a placard...