V-cs reject beefed-up copyright
Vice-chancellors have given the thumbs down to the Association of University Teachers' proposals for a "fairer" agreement on intellectual property rights between academics, their employers and...
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E-journals revolution threatens publishers
The increasing availability of scholarly e-journals is the beginning of a "revolution" in the communication of research that could ultimately destroy the dominant role of commercial publishers,...
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Global libraries put cash into fight over price hikes
University librarians have launched a project to help speed the creation of electronic journals by academics worldwide. The Scientific Communities Initiative will offer grants totalling $500,000 (...
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Chimps 'unique' like us
Chimpanzees have distinct personalities that can be quantified in the same way as human personalities, according to research by Lindsay Murray of University College Chester. "Some people think that...
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Ecstasy and cannabis affect the memory
Using ecstasy and cannabis impairs memory, according to new research. Psychologists from the University of Sunderland have been investigating memory function and reaction times among regular drug...
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Alternatives to the ILT
A club no one wants to join. Just weeks from its launch date, the Institute for Learning and Teaching is in trouble Stirling University has proposed an approach that it says gives academics...
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Middlesex sacks Clark
Middlesex University has now formally dismissed Suzi Clark, its former head of media relations, a year after she was suspended over a row about academic free speech. She is to claim unfair dismissal...
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Another tribunal case is to be mounted by Ms Clark's colleague, Elizabeth Cott
* Another tribunal case is to be mounted by Ms Clark's colleague, Elizabeth Cott, the university's marketing planning manager who resigned without notice last week. She was joined by Joe Ormerod,...
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The University of North London
* The University of North London unfairly sacked lecturer Rob Slack for complaining about inaccuracies in a colleague's books. A tribunal awarded Mr Slack Pounds 13,000 last week, six months after...
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A club no one wants to join
Just weeks from its launch date, the Institute for Learning and Teaching is in trouble. Alison Utley reports It is hard to object to the Institute for Learning and Teaching, a body dreamt up nearly...
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The skills of a clown take the winning ticket
Dressed to sell body and soul Among the criteria used for judging the competing exhibition stands was "effectiveness in attracting visitors". It was impossible to miss the offering of countryside...
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How to join the ILT club
A club no one wants to join. Just weeks from its launch date, the Institute for Learning and Teaching is in trouble What academics must do to become members of the Institute for Learning and Teaching...
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Glittering prizes
Radio 1 DJ John Peel is to be made honorary doctor of music by Anglia Polytechnic University. Michael Bromwich, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants professor at the LSE, has been named...
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On the move
Roger Davies, professor of astronomy at the University of Durham, and Ian Ritchie, president of the British Computer Society, have been appointed to the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research...
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In the news
A survey earlier this year identified David Trimble, joint Nobel prize winner, as the most-talked-about Irishman in the British and Irish press. Since becoming leader of the Ulster Unionist Party...