Analysis: Trying to refresh a sullied image
With the BSE crisis, the unknown risk of radiation from mobile phones and unexpected floods attributed to global warming, science has had a rocky ride in the past few years. Few would deny that the...
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Analysis: The age of 'strategic alliances'
Bids for funding for new collaborations are growing faster than the funds. Claire Sanders reports. In a footnote to the government's announcement on widening participation in September, an extra £15...
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Don's Diary
February Film contributions to a BBC Horizon programme on Lake Vostok. Hours of questioning for a few minutes airtime. Lake Vostok is an enormous lake discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheet only...
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In the news: Catherine Cesarsky
For United Kingdom astronomers, joining the European Southern Observatory would mean coming under the jurisdiction of ESO director general Catherine Cesarsky. She was appointed in September last year...
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Peer pressure for dons
So can we expect a few profs among the "people's peers", to be appointed next year? A spokesman for the House of Lords appointments commission confessed that a number of applications from academics...
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Sending out signals
It is a hard life being an academic. Take John Lycett, an evolutionary psychologist at Liverpool University, who selflessly dedicated three weeks, with his researchers, to observing the behaviour of...
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Shame about the name
After lengthy consultation, Beaver College, Philadelphia, has decided on a new name "to better describe the vibrant and respected institution that we are today". From next July it becomes Arcadia...
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Lessons in true value
If paying tuition fees has taught students something, it is the value of money. So at least some of the students who poured into London to protest against fees last week must have recognised a...
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Glittering prizes
J. K. Rowling , author of the Harry Potter books, has been awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by Napier University . The Political Studies Association has awarded the following to commemorate...
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On the move
Richard Susskind , author, IT adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and an independent consultant to global law firms, has been appointed professor of law at Gresham College . Victor Burgin ,...
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World View: Students speak Franklin
A bit of r-e-s-p-e-c-t is on the wish list of every student, but what exactly does that mean? Harvey Kaye asks. Ever wondered what students want and expect of their professors? We regularly read...
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Eyewitness: Democracy remains fragile in Côte d'Ivoire
Until this autumn, the Côte d'Ivoire had a reputation for political stability. That reputation evaporated in the violence that marred last month's presidential elections and left an estimated 200...
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Luanda
Angolan students at university campuses in Luanda and Lubango are avoiding conscription in the war against Unita by registering as United Nations student refugees with the aim of studying in other...
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Washington DC
A total of 74 presidents of private US colleges were paid at least $300,000 in 1998-99, according to the annual survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education . It is the largest number since 1991-92,...
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Panama City
Cuban president Fidel Castro has been given a medal of honour by the rector of Panama University. Mr Castro, who had been attending a summit for Ibero-American heads of state, said his trip would...