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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Honorary degrees
Robert Gordon University DBA: Anthony Bamford, chairman and managing director of JCB. DLitt: Peter Graham, general officer commanding the army in Scotland and governor of Edinburgh Castle (1991-93)....
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Christine Savva, who is studying for an MA in employment studies and human resource management, is writing a dissertation called "Bullying at work - an investigation and analysis of bullying in...
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It wasn't him...
Do you rely on a dead priest to choose your lottery numbers? Ian Walker assesses the statistics thrown by the nation's biggest draw The National Lottery has attracted billions of pounds for good...
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The plot thickens
History is fiction, argues Alun Munslow, but that does not mean it cannot tell truths What do historians do? When I was an undergraduate in the 1960s I read good-practice primers, among them E. H....
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Letter
Your editorial "Dolly is just cloning around" (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, February 28) states "the public has a right to expect its elected governments to consider when, why and how technologies should be controlled, and...