Exploding HIV vial was not a risk
Health inspectors were called to Cambridge University after a vial containing an HIV virus protein exploded in a genetic-modification containment facility, the Health and Safety Executive has...
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Findings: When viruses ruled the earth
When the first cellular life forms stirred on the earth, viruses may have already been poised to infect them, writes Steve Farrar. A radical hypothesis that seeks to bring order to the previously...
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Findings: Groomed for quick hug
The deal is straightforward. In return for some careful grooming, a female baboon is allowed to cuddle another's infant until the mother asks for its return, writes Steve Farrar. The exchange rate...
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Institutes win funds for cheap heating
Edinburgh and Warwick universities are set to save thousands of pounds annually after winning government support for an innovative community heating scheme, writes Olga Wojtas. The universities are...
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Scots college heads form support group
Some of the most successful managers in Scotland's colleges are to form a radical new directorate within the Scottish Further Education Funding Council, helping to support colleges with difficulties...
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'Arrogant' dean expelled
A Russian university dean has been expelled from an Open Society Institute-funded summer school on human rights after she and other participants complained about standards of teaching and...
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Case of the destroyed exam papers stumps Greek police
A burglary in which a number of examination scripts were destroyed is mystifying police and university authorities in Athens. Intruders at the Trans-University Centre for the Assessment and...
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Kuala Lumpur
University Kebangsaan Malaysia has become the first local university to announce a 20 per cent cut in arts enrolments. Other universities are expected to make similar moves following an education...
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Hamilton
A Canadian who used a forged 1977 medical degree to obtain an internship at McMaster University in Hamilton and then practised in Ontario for 15 years has pleaded guilty to fraud. Stephen Kai Yui...
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Mekele
The former president of the Asmara University students' union has escaped from Eritrea after a year in detention and has sought political asylum in Ethiopia. Semere Kesete hopes eventually to travel...
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Brussels/Geneva
Fifty universities have been selected for a European University Association project to build an internal quality culture. Six thematic networks have been established: research management, teaching...
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Private staff get a big bienvenue
French universities are to open their doors wider to private-sector professionals and academics from foreign universities. Education minister Luc Ferry has modified the rules governing recruitment of...
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Swiss: do not leave us in dark over Gats
The Swiss government is preparing to sign agreements on regulation of higher education under the General Agreement on Trade in Services despite opposition from university rectors and the European...
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Call to axe US 'party' tables
The American Medical Association has called on the publisher of a popular college guide to eliminate its annual ranking of the "top party schools" in the US. It says the ranking and the accompanying...
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Colleges cool on plans for SA rejig
South African vice-chancellors have warned the government that its "punitive" approach to restructuring higher education is alienating the sector and will undermine reform. Njabulo Ndebele, vice-...