Lazy lads balk at 'feminine' study
Many young men assume they are too laddish, lazy and disorganised to go to university, a study suggests, writes Jessica Shepherd. According to a recent survey, they believe that university life...
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Passion drives the best and brightest in biology
Ditch your assumptions, says Anna Fazackerley, the UK has a lot to shout about when it comes to early career researchers, and there's not a comfy shoe in sight Higher Hopes We all know the stereotype...
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Washington DC
The Middle East Studies Association and the American Association of University Professors have accused the Government of Iraq of doing little to ensure the safety of academics and have claimed that a...
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Dublin
The Irish Government has announced its biggest ever investment in science - at least €3.8 billion (£2.6 billion) over the next seven years. It is hoped that industry will contribute at least €2.5...
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Cologne
Cologne University has banned all Coca-Cola products from its campus after joining an international protest against the US soft drinks giant. The universities of Bonn and Wuppertal are likely to...
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Correction
The University of South ߣߣÊÓƵ was incorrectly described as the University of South Africa in the second reference to the institution in a story about Cranfield University (June 30).
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US under pressure to dump Sudan holdings
The best-organised student movement since the apartheid era has had mixed success in its bid to change university investments. Jon Marcus reports Some 40 US universities have agreed to disinvest in...
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Court flexes muscle over Dr Arnie
An Austrian court has ordered the country's first private university to revoke an honorary degree it awarded to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Imadec University in Vienna gave the...
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Japanese government cuts raise fears about research funding and a hike in tuition fees
State support for Japan's 80-plus denationalised universities is about to be slashed further - by ¥60 billion (£300 million) over the next five years - as part of the finance ministry's ¥11.4...
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ߣߣÊÓƵ set to train own imams
Geoff Maslen reports on government moves to thwart extremism Melbourne and Sydney universities are considering proposals from the federal Education Department that they train Islamic clerics. The...
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Ministers concede in academic pay fight
University staff in New Zealand can look forward to a pay rise after the Government admitted that the sector was underfunded. Academic staff will receive an extra 3 per cent, taking pay awards to...
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Scientists hope to repay brain drain profit
Many scientists from the developing world who now live in the West want to share their technological expertise with their countries of origin. But too often they are thwarted in their attempts, a...
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Under fire
Universities are being criticised for investments linked to the Sudanese Government, which has been accused of genocide.
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Do you seriously want the meek and mild type?
Academics grumble that students' parents are aggressive. But Raphael Salkie feels they aren't aggressive enough So our students' parents are getting aggressive, demanding to know how their children...
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Gary Day
Here is Gary Link-Up. He is a very rare Englishman because he has actually scored in a penalty shoot-out. He is hosting a post-match discussion with Alan Handsome, Alan "land one on him" Shearer and...