Take the Mickey no more
While the press was busy abusing media studies, its graduates were busy getting jobs in the press, writes Tony Tysome The irony of the situation does not escape most media studies academics: as a...
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A career ain't the half of it
Can a mum be a professor? Only if dad does half the childcare. Francine Deutsch reports on a new division of labour I grew up in the optimistic early days of the Women's Movement. Despite an all-male...
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Overtaxed students hit back
Hamburg A German university professor has claimed that half of all students are not intelligent enough to be at university. Jutta Rall-Niu, head of the Hamburg branch of DHV, the association of...
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AT&T connect to Cambridge
Tim Greenhalgh on the Pounds 30 million telecoms research link in Silicon Fen Andy Hopper is wearing a smile that communicates more than a simple sense of satisfaction with the way his academic life...
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World watch
Chicago An Illinois death-row inmate has been released from prison thanks to the efforts of students of investigative journalism at Northwestern University. Anthony Porter had been in jail for 16...
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Correction
Correction A report of the final-year salary of Fay Gale, former vice-chancellor of the University of Western ߣߣÊÓƵ (THES, December 25), failed to make clear that the figure included entitlements...
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Foreigners feed Oz job insecurity
Melbourne Despite the loss of up to 5,000 jobs in ߣߣÊÓƵn universities over the past three years, overseas academics are still being hired to fill the few vacancies that occur. Vice-chancellors...
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White roses join battle
The universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York are planning to launch a multimillion investment fund to help their academics set up high-tech spin-off firms. Called the White Rose Technology Seedcorn...
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Who funds the key players?
Arpad Pusztai's research into genetically modified potatoes involved the Rowett Research Institute, the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Dundee and Durham University's biology department. The...
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Who leads the anti-GM lobby?
Twenty-nine groups opposed to genetically modified food have organised themselves into a Five-Year Freeze campaign group. This week they took to the streets of Westminster to raise concerns over the...
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Commons to investigate
The House of Commons science and technology committee is to turn its attention to GM foods as part of its investigation into how government uses scientific advice. It will be speaking to Dr Pusztai,...
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Science by press release
British scientists this week mounted a counter-offensive to the newspaper headlines damning genetically modified food, claiming there was no justification for a ban on planting GM crops. Their action...
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Science minister Lord Sainsbury
* Science minister Lord Sainsbury was this week hanging on in office despite allegations of potential conflict of interest over genetically modified food. The Guardian had to back down after saying...
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Liberal arts ads irk free-thinkers
Boston Rather than bemoan a continuing decline in enrolment in the liberal arts, the college of arts and sciences at Indiana University did something about it: it advertised. The college tried luring...
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Venetians launch arts manager degree
Rome Venice's Ca' Foscari University has launched a degree course in the economics and management of the arts. The degree will teach students how to run a museum, organise cultural events, make an...