Sennett wins award
Richard Sennett, professor of sociology at the London School of Economics, is the winner of the 2006 Hegel Prize, awarded to a prominent thinker once every three years.
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Correction
It was reported last week that Manchester University spin-off company Transitive had won £500,000 for a knowledge transfer prize. The sum was actually received by the university itself.
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'Everyone is a loser in a misconduct case'
Academic fraud can do great damage to reputations, but are universities doing enough to tackle it, asks Phil Baty What drives an academic to research fraud? That's "the thousand-dollar question",...
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An ethicist skilled in the magical arts of deception
'Medical ethics can be quite dry, so any way of making it more interesting helps. But I don't thrust magic on people. I ask for their consent to be deceived. When I first started I didn't like lying...
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US falls for soft diplomacy
Portugal and China strike deals with US institutions in bids to build research and extend cultural ties, writes Jon Marcus The US is entering into lucrative contracts with governments to help develop...
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'Chase up loans to stop unrest'
Business leaders in Swaziland are calling on the Government to pursue the repayment of student loans from graduates to fund bursaries for new students and prevent more unrest. Lindiwe Dlamini, an...
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ߣߣÊÓƵ set to blaze new trail
ߣߣÊÓƵ's Government hopes that its new research quality framework will be a worldwide pioneer in the measurement of research impact. The framework, announced late last month by Julie...
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Talent hunt to target minorities
A federal chairs programme that helped reverse Canada's brain drain has to change the way it recruits its "world leaders". The Canada Research Chairs programme, which since its inception in 2000 has...
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Grande école staff quit in protest over director
The Ecole Normale Superieure, one of France's most prestigious grandes écoles , is in turmoil after about 15 senior academics resigned as a protest against the school's director. The resignations,...
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Colleges in Israel see rise
Some of Israel's colleges are experiencing a dramatic increase in the number of students registering this year while university enrolments have fallen 1.3 per cent, according to the country's chief...
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'Let us drive development'
ACU to tell ministers how universities can lead revival in Africa, writes David Jobbins Commonwealth education ministers will later this month hear how universities can drive economic and social...
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Don't downgrade solid foundations for success
Allowing colleges to award two-year degrees could harm a still maturing qualification, says Drummond Bone The Further Education and Training Bill, which receives its second reading in the House of...
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst: it's glasshouse party season
Four Seasons Festival - winter Oxford University Botanic Garden One of the many pleasures of the BBC's Planet Earth series has been each episode's coda, which sets out to explain how particular...
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Not such a clean sheet after all
Sir David King, the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser and climate-change guru, left an almost indelible mark on Imperial College London, Sir Richard Sykes, the rector, told the audience of the...
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Can't keep collegiality down
John Hood, Oxford University's beleaguered vice-chancellor, failed to push ahead with his plans to expand the number of external members of the university's Council last week. And it appears...