Glittering prizes
The Royal Geographical Society has awarded: William Graf , of Arizona State University, the Founder's Medal ; Peter Dicken , of the University of Manchester, the Victoria Medal ; Linda McDowell , of...
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More ABC than IPA
An invitation to a seminar has arrived from the National Union of Students' commercial arm, NUS Services Ltd. It describes how one of the company's key roles is "to market products and services to...
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Selling that ol' uni time
Bournemouth University has hit on a novel way of using the summertime blues to recruit students. It is helping to fund the South Dorset Blues Appreciation Society's summer school, which offers adults...
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Eyewitness: Terror stalks Colombia's university campuses
Terrorists are targeting Colombia's public universities in the conflict between leftist guerrillas and rightist paramilitaries. Last month, car bombs near Bogotá's Universidad Nacional de Colombia...
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World view: Lessons of invisible college
Conferences help the US to chat to Europeans about antipathy to American policy, Dorothy Zinberg writes. The invisible college of the Middle Ages, often thought to have given rise to the British...
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Tale of a duo's faith in the Ivy League
Princeton University revives its Scottish connection on June 22 and simultaneously salutes the end of a remarkable chapter in American education. After almost 14 years as Princeton president, Harold...
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Extreme mob puts Danes on red alert
Roskilde University Centre, the University of South Denmark and the Panum Institute - Copenhagen University's faculty of health - are among Danish universities tightening security following threats...
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Overhaul promises to revive ambition
Germany's Social Democrat education minister, Edelgard Bulmahn, has scored a victory in her fight to introduce performance-related pay for university professors after the cabinet approved her reform...
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Heriott-Watt pact boosts spin-offs
Heriot-Watt University and a leading venture management group have forged a £12 million partnership to encourage academic spin-off companies. The five-year agreement is between Heriot-Watt and...
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Paper still wins when it comes to gravitas
Online scholarly books and journals are still suffering from a credibility problem despite having moved towards more acceptable quality standards, according to a Canadian study that gauged academic...
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A black box that can end a dark despair
Why is there no warning carried with drugs that researchers say increase the risk of suicide? Philip Fine reports. A simple question continually nagged David Healy. For years, the...
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I know I know that monkey
It is obvious that animals remember. When food is abundant, birds and mammals hoard it in caches and can retrieve it days, weeks, even months later when it has become scarce. But because they cannot...
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'There's no pressure on me to succeed'
Olga Wojtas squeezes into a hotel room to hear a nurse's tale of further study. The workshop title, "Perspectives of Adult Learners", seemed pretty standard. The workshop was not. It was held in a...
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Degree class expands
Rising demand for educated workers and higher individual expectations have encouraged more young people to seek a university degree or similar qualification, according to the latest review of...
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Pay deal hostage to Unison stance on bargaining
Unison could scupper the pay deal for all university staff as the union heads for make-or-break talks at its annual conference on Sunday. The deal, which could see some lecturers' salaries rise by 5....