Jam busters find their Mecca
As pilgrims from all over the Muslim world prepare to travel to Mecca, researchers have found a way to reduce the monumental traffic jams that beset the holy sites at this time of year. The project...
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Shocking glimpse of Stocking
The news sent a chill down the spines of a whole generation of Germans: Pippi Longstocking, one of their best-loved children's literary figures, had been censored! The rebellious, freckle-faced...
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Swiss research lacks structure
A panel of international academic experts has found serious structural defects in the way humanities research is organised in Switzerland. Following an earlier assessment of research in the social...
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Recruiters given a free rein
Japan's annual graduate recruitment season is coming to an end, accompanied by the usual complaints that some companies have failed to keep to their predetermined schedules. Because the academic year...
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A fuzzy no to 'noodle factories'
The Malaysian parliament has pushed through final amendments to legislation which sets universities on the path to being run like corporations. Ministers are optimistic about the impact of changes to...
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You've got my name, why don't you use it
An MBA graduate, who says his professor plagiarised his work, has taken his allegations to civil court. Paul Boudreau told an Ontario judge when the case began earlier this month that Jimming Lin, a...
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Tax break fuels fear of fee hike
Critics of President Bill Clinton's proposal to boost student aid say that it could fuel tuition fee inflation in the United States. University and college lobbyists in Washington have generally...
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Beards only on Kabul campus
KABUL University has reopened for an uncertain academic year short of cash, stationery and women students. The Taliban Movement closed the university indefinitely when it swept into the Afghan...
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Gun runners escape agents
NIGERIA's secret service agents are scouring the neighbouring Benin Republic for a university lecturer and his partner who have been convicted of gun running. The government wants to extradite...
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Don's Diary
Sunday I buy a Sunday paper. As a genetics news-watcher, the Sunday Telegraph's headline catches my eye: "Abort babies with gay genes, says Nobel winner." The article reports that James Watson, the...
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It's not what you do, it's the way you do it
IF YOU were shown a university how would you know that it was a good one? One response might be to ask whether it does what it does well, and to find out whether it has quality processes. This sits...
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Chairs
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Dick Ashford has been appointed to a personal chair in recognition of his ongoing research into diseases such as leishmaniasis, passed on by the bite of an...
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Appointments
Royal Academy of Arts Christopher Le Brun has been elected as an academician. He trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and Chelsea School of Art, was a trustee of the Tate Gallery (1990-95) and has...
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Meaning in a silent universe
The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World
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Speaking Volumes: C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination
On C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination. In 1948, when I was 11 years old, my father took me to the London Olympics. That was when I fell in love for the first time - with Arthur Wint, the...