Hawaii hopes to get blues
The University of Hawaii's department of tropical plant and soil sciences has embarked on a ten-year quest to develop the first blue orchid. Students and faculty in the department assist Hawaii's...
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12 Saudi liberals arrested
Five academics were among 12 Saudi Arabian liberals arrested in a countrywide purge last month, according to human rights agencies. One professor is said to have been detained while in the middle of...
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PM jumps gun with A$3bn vow
Brendan Nelson, ߣߣÊÓƵ's education minister, has promised universities up to A$3 billion (£1.23 billion) extra in federal research grants if the Howard government is re-elected this year. Speaking...
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Fair-trade coffee earns York a bean
Canada's York University has unveiled its own brand of fair-trade coffee. Las Nubes, the Costa-Rican-grown coffee, will give the Toronto-based university a buzz while offering a novel way of...
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Visas open EU door
The European Commission has published compulsory legislation and voluntary guidelines for fast-track visas to allow citizens from non-European Union countries to undertake research in any member...
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Belarus president attacks rectors for not pushing Soviet-style dogma
Universities in Belarus are not meeting President Aleksander Lukashenko's expectations for the indoctrination of students in loyalty to the state. The president told university heads at a conference...
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Politics sidelines row over tenure
Italian government plans to curb academics' job security and open up half of posts to non-academic "experts" may be shelved as politicians concentrate on May's European elections and the run-up to...
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Crossing borders can be risky but rewarding
Interdisciplinarity is necessary and can lead to new insights but it must retain a critical edge, says Stephen Rowland The most exciting areas for research lie between and across disciplinary...
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Nancy Rothwell
UK scholars must look to partnerships to tackle European legislation that might have a detrimental effect on science Most academics are probably quite law-abiding citizens. We may be seduced...
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My revolting past
In the early 1960s Terry Eagleton rebelled by wearing his tie over his sweater before finding a cause in the Catholic left As a student, Terry Eagleton echoed Richard Hoggart's scholarship boy - the...
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Why tsarists lost by a nose
Staff at Dundee University recall that when Sir Peter Ustinov, who died this week, became the first rector in 1968, he gave a bravura inaugural address that included the true explanation for the...
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UEA's seekers after Clarke
Almost a year has passed since Charles Clarke, the education secretary, questioned whether the state should support "medieval seekers after truth" who are "good to have as an adornment to our society...
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Tables? Pah. But we're tops!
League tables are typically derided by those who fail to top them and acclaimed by those who do - as evidenced most recently in the vision for University College London being developed by Malcolm...
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No 1 place to find number twos
Need to get to the bottom of that elusive research on excrement? Whether your quest is for the diet of those living in the Roman empire or honeybee faeces in Southeast Asia, an Alberta University...
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Why I believe students are too concerned with failure to experiment with art
Failure is a powerful and emotive term. High failure rates on any higher education course or module are naturally a cause for concern. One must also be sensitive to the students coming to university...