Scientists in Mexico admit cheating is rife
A study by the Mexican Academy of Sciences has revealed a deeply entrenched culture of cheating among a large proportion of scientists, who place ethics way down their list of priorities. Forty per...
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Czechs balance priorities
Research institutions in the Czech Republic that fail to come up to scratch will face closure under planned changes to the way science is funded in the country. A Research and Development Council...
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Second thoughts
In the wake of angry nationwide protests, Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France, has said he is prepared to improve the Contrat Première Embauche , the young people's employment contract...
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US shuts down Swedish trials
Medical research into brain-damaged HIV patients at Gothenburg University's world renowned Sahlgren Academy has been on hold since last autumn after the US National Institutes of Health suspended...
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Africa's brain gain
A World Bank report has urged governments in Africa to resist the idea that expansion of higher education exacerbates the brain drain problem, reports Wachira Kigotho in Nairobi. David Bloom,...
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Fewer faces for MBA places
After years of enrolment growth, the number of local and foreign students taking MBAs in ߣߣÊÓƵ has dropped by more than 20 per cent since 2003. The trend is not unique to ߣߣÊÓƵ. Business...
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Tales turn on mystery and imagination alone
Fiction should be about telling good stories, not championing scientific accuracy, insists Philip Pullman Robert May, the former chief scientific adviser to the Government, in his recent article in...
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Shooting the voice of treason
V For Vendetta In cinemas nationwide The reviews of V for Vendetta have been pretty much "C is for crap". The movie adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Lloyd's graphic serial/novel looks doomed for the...
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HE: a fast track to success
For months, the Liberal Democrats could not find anyone to champion higher education despite their eagerness to make their stance against top-up fees a trump card. But now, everyone will want the job...
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How will Tory spokes-man fare?
China is revving up for a major British higher education public relations ambush, with both Bill Rammell, the Higher Education Minister, and Boris Johnson, his Conservative counterpart, arriving the...
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Invitation to name and shame
Fears about the literacy of undergraduates hit a new trough last week when the National Union of Students sent out an invitation to the opening of its surprisingly glossy new building. While...
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You must be artichoking
In his recent visit to Goldsmiths, University of London, Alan Bennett, the playwright and author shared a favourite anecdote about Alan Walker Tyson, the late Oxford musicologist. Tyson, notorious...
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Collective campaign for real politics
Modern democracy has mutated into a one-party system, writes Tony Benn, in the first of a series on challenges to the liberal state When people won the vote, in the century between the 1832 Reform...
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Some dumb insolence might get their ear
Through co-operation, academics have the power to save higher education from the bureaucrats, writes Lewis Elton When a soldier obeys an order in the letter but not the spirit, it is called dumb...
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Wow the crowds, avoid the crook
Speaking at a conference can be terrifying. Kevin Fongadvises holding your nerve and avoiding fisticuffs with the bloke asking irritating questions As The Times Higher publishes its conference...