Jailed student seeks support
Campaigners are fighting for the release of Iranian student Ahmad Batebi who was jailed for 15 years after his photograph appeared on the front of The Economist. Despite the National Union of...
Search
-
-
Malta to grow EU studies profile
The University of Malta hopes to enhance its role as a leading centre for European Union studies by introducing a research degree in the subject. Although Malta has yet to join the EU, the university...
-
Viadrina celebrates decade with recruitment drive
Europa University Viadrina, which celebrated its tenth anniversary last month, is striving to build a 5,000-strong student-body. Viadrina, on the German-Polish border, opened in 1991 with 200...
-
World leaders face ߣߣÊÓƵn blockade
ߣߣÊÓƵn university students are planning to protest at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Brisbane on October 5 and at the Commonwealth Business Forum to be held in Melbourne...
-
Business to star in funding pageant
A Popstars -style talent show is to give ambitious Midlands technology companies the chance to compete for funding. The competition is being run by Connect Midlands, a spin-off from Warwick Ventures...
-
For-profit label 'curbs e-study'
The perception that online learning is really e-commerce is holding back public-sector development of e-education, a new Commonwealth of Learning report has said. "Virtual education" is expected to...
-
IT news in brief
Goldsmiths wins £1.3m for cognition centre Goldsmiths College, University of London, has been awarded £1.3 million by the Higher Education Funding Council for England's Science Research Investment...
-
St Andrews to get IT facelift
Former physics researcher and mathematics teacher Hania Allen is set to spearhead an information technology revolution at St Andrews University. Dr Allen, the recently appointed vice-principal for...
-
Bring your swim trunks to the SCR
Lecturing in Jamaica has its drawbacks but has its sunny side too, writes Tony Ward in the fourth of our series from the grass roots. Rising student numbers, not enough time to do research, and...
-
Latest UK news
Bar Council warning over law degrees The Bar Council has warned that it may no longer recognise university law degrees. Nigel Bastin, head of education for the Bar Council, said the council formally...
-
Latest international news
Global warming irreversible, say Russians Russian scientists have warned that global warming is irreversible and that schemes to tackle it might reduce its worst effects only slightly. Speakers at a...
-
From today's UK papers
The Financial Times The journal Nature will urge its authors to disclose any financial interests related to their studies in response to growing concerns over increasing links between...
-
Netgazette
University of Surrey Appointments as follows: Head of department B. Weiss (electronics, computing and mathematics); J. Tostevin (physics). Readership M. Olssen , former senior lecturer at the...
-
First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a work by a "selfish geneticist": "We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe...
-
To shape a House that thereafter shaped us
Christopher Woodward on Barry's Gothic triumph by the Thames. At six o'clock in the evening of October 16 1834, fire broke out under the debating chamber of the House of Lords at the Palace of...