A bitter cuppa for lecturers
As controller of lecturers' teaching performance, Stephen Bretschneider, head of administration at Hamburg's smallest university, had few friends. So when his dead body was discovered by a hapless...
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Rectors accused of freemason link
Italian universities, already staggering under scores of corruption investigations, now face the charge that half of all rectors are freemasons and that the semi-secret international Catholic...
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Palms of peace
(Photograph) - Palms of peace: Thousands of students, their hands painted white to symbolise their condemnation of violence, gathered outside the Autonomous University of Madrid last week on the day...
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Queen's elects child of the non-famous
The son and daughter of two high-profile Ulster politicians have lost their first election - for president of the student union at Queen's University. Deirdre McAliskey, daughter of renowned...
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Archive coup for Rhodes library
Rhodes House library in Oxford has secured the complete archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, complementing its existing collection and enhancing research opportunities. The collection, one of the...
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Fee-payers feel more attached
Alumni relations could actually be improved if students paid for their own higher education, according to a survey by university marketing specialists. Ian O'Neill, author of Alumni Relations In UK...
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Students wary of plan to turn union into firm
Proposals are being considered that could create Britain's first full student union company. The plans are raising fears that autonomy could suffer at the hands of a university parent corporation. A...
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Tomorrow's tonic or today's bitter pill?
Simon Targett discovers how, despite a recent dip in the share price of a major biotech firm, Britain's academic spin-off companies are still on to a good thing. Just three weeks ago the share price...
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Ousted president in union defeat
Mags Whelan, the ousted student president who is threatening legal action against Oxford Brookes University student union, has sparked further upset after losing the latest leadership election....
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Clarke degree courts controversy
The dispute about Nottingham Trent's proposal to award Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke an honorary degree has prompted the university to take the "unprecedented step" of breaking the...
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Clock watcher
(Photograph) - Clock watcher: Maxim Kotchoubeyev, a senior official from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, learns the latest about restoration of clocks, fine ceramics and metalwork at West Dean...
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MoD gives details on contracts
The Ministry of Defence has disclosed details of its chemical and biological warfare contracts in universities in a move to reduce Government secrecy. The chemical and biological warfare...
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Oh s-t!
Scientists who criticise Hollywood's depiction of epidemics should realise that "witchcraft science" will always dominate the movies, says Christopher Foreman, a political scientist at the Brookings...
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Dearing's terms of reference
The inquiry has been asked to make recommendations on how the shape, structure, size and funding of higher education, including support for students, should develop to meet the needs of the UK over...
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Does the Rt Hon Lady. . .
. . . recognise that universities . . . are independent of the Government, and that they have a right . . . to take appropriate steps to secure the resources they need to underpin the quality of...