Poorly paid Czechs to upset exams
Lecturers at a leading university in the Czech Republic are threatening to disrupt entrance exams in June as dissatisfaction grows at the lack of action by the government to tackle pay and other...
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Short degrees lure foreigners
International student recruitment in Spain is booming and is expected to grow even faster with the adoption of new shorter degree courses under the Europe-wide Bologna process. But in Germany there...
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Funding thaw for French research
French research minister Claudie Haignere has lifted most of the budgetary restrictions imposed by the finance ministry. Her action follows protests and strikes by researchers over previously planned...
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Student vetting reviewed
The Cabinet Office is reviewing the voluntary vetting scheme designed to ensure that countries developing weapons of mass destruction cannot use UK universities to train key scientists. In a letter...
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Chile bond issue could become cash-raising model
The International Finance Corporation, the private-sector arm of the World Bank, is piloting a bond issue project in Chile that it hopes could be a model for raising money for developing world...
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World must play its part in rebirth of Iraqi academe
Refurbishing Iraq's university system will raise aspirations and encourage the free exchange of ideas, says John Daniel Wars and geopolitical upheavals require repair of the social and material...
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Harry Kroto
Cut small research teams and there will be no more buckyballs - or even balls for Beckham to bend These are fantastically exciting times for chemists - in particular for those who are creating magic...
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Don's diary: how to get better endowed
Thursday To the Great Hall, Bart's Hospital, to celebrate the late Henry Drucker, director of the Campaign for Oxford in the late 1980s - the first UK university campaign to reach a nine-figure goal...
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Presidential post
Someone with presidential style is being sought by headhunters Saxton Bampfylde Hever to run the merged University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology....
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GP contract threatens student health service
University health centres could be forced to close unless significant changes are made to the proposed GP contract, according to the British Association of Health Services in Higher Education. John...
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To negotiate moral mazes...
...we need to turn to the clarity that academic theology can bring, argues Tom Wright I recently listened on the radio to two bishops speaking about the Iraq war. The interviewer was trying...
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Partnoy's complaint
Infectious Greed
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a short story by a notorious fin-de-si cle writer: "Every afternoon, as they were coming home from...
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Why we should fear vast change
The Constants of Nature
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Battle-scarred land of lied-to people
Dark Star Safari