Rejected candidate wins £7k
The National University of Ireland Maynooth has been ordered to pay €10,000 (£6,900) to a candidate who was rejected for the post of professor of sociology. Ireland's Equality Tribunal found that...
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Monash defends study of terrorism
An ߣߣÊÓƵn university has defended the right of academics and students to research terrorism after one of its students was questioned by police when he borrowed books on the Palestinian conflict....
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Victoria's fishy way to go green
There's something fishy in the water at the University of Victoria - literally. The toilets and urinals at the school's new medical building, on the west coast of Canada, recycle waste water from...
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Learn from our cultural kin how to reel it in
A trip to Canada convinced sceptic Jon Baldwin that the UK could catch up with North American fundraising Every so often UK universities are taunted by everyone from Gordon Brown to the popular press...
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Nancy Rothwell
UK universities must continue to take a risk with their research and not just opt for commercially beneficial projects I'm worried that we may be in danger of forgetting what universities are for and...
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Dress code is not out of kilter
At last it can be revealed - Cambridge University was forced to bow before the might of the Fraserburgh Herald newspaper. Earlier this year, the university tightened its graduation dress code,...
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Confident about that correction?
The tit-for-tat public relations war between the Association of University Teachers and Brunel University over plans to cut up to 60 academic posts has extended as far as The Guardian newspaper's...
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Wads not words important here
Struggling in clearing? Prospective undergraduates whose parents have A$100,000 (£42,000) burning a hole in their pockets could have found the perfect alma mater. This amount will buy students a "...
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Can we learn from Teacher's?
In an increasingly competitive world, Universities Scotland has been contemplating how to brand Scottish higher education more effectively. Its international group decided to look for an existing...
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Yasir Suleiman: Faithful fight
In times of crisis in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world, enlightened and, no doubt, well-meaning members of the three Abrahamic religions - Christians, Jews and Muslims (listed in...
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Why I ...
How do you bag a Nobel laureate? Manchester University would - presumably - like to know. The newly merged higher education behemoth has set itself a target of having five Nobel prizewinners on its...
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It's a moral imperative
Forget the medical arguments, if we care about animals we must do research, writes Chris Barnard Threatened expansion of animal-rights activity against Oxford University marks the latest round in the...
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The high cost of selling out
Pressure on researchers to make a profit could mean the death of some subjects, claims Stuart Sim Every academic working in the humanities will have noted an interesting change in the research...
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Wise up, robes are all the rage
Susan Bassnett remembers when attending a graduation ceremony was naff, but all that's changed and she's loving every minute Every year I go to two lots of degree ceremonies: one in winter, the other...
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It's bottoms up and heads down
How can you ensure that students get the most out of field trips? Start the experience by treating them to a couple of pints - all in the name of furthering their knowledge, of course. Harriet Swain...