Comment and discussion about the security industry of interest to the security professional. Blogs will be submitted by (ISC)2's management team and Advisory Board members. In preparation of the launch of the (ISC)2 EMEA Advisory Board, I’ve had numerous ...

I have found it necessary to address this letter to you in view of certain developments at your Lagos Consulate with regard to visa requirements which have very adverse implications for academic practice in Nigeria. I am scheduled to attend a conference at ...

Michael Alexander has heard it all before: People with business backgrounds do not understand academia and are ill-equipped to lead colleges and universities. He has a ready rejoinder to such talk: “Balderdash.’’ Before he became president ...

Last week, there was an academic conference at the University of St Andrews dedicated to the Harry Potter series of books. Over 50 academics gathered to discuss J.K. Rowling's books, and apparently this caused quite a stir among people who think that ...

No, this wasn’t in the West Bank.  This happened in London on Monday, 14 May.  The Palestine Society of the University of London’s School of Oriental and Asian Studies (SOAS) held an event at the Khalili Lecture Theatre, advertised with ...

The American Scholastic Press Association has named The Benjamin School newspaper, The Pharcyde, the Most Outstanding Private/Parochial School Newspaper in America in its 2011-12 Scholastic Newspaper Awards program. The contest reviews student newspapers ...

Universities are reasonably conservative places and virtually no institutions have moved away from the three-year undergraduate degree, or the one-year master's programme. The exceptions, such as the four-year classics programme at Oxford, are ...

William Bowen's "How to Keep American Colleges on Top" (op-ed, May 10) presents a grave mischaracterization of the Pathways initiative at the City University of New York. As a department chair and faculty member in the CUNY system, I can assure readers ...

Universities need to work more closely with business, nonprofit and government sectors to better prepare graduate students for careers beyond academia, according to the report for a national project that a UC Davis dean helped guide. Jeffery Gibeling, dean ...

Creativity enhances life. It enables the great thinkers, artists, and leaders of our world to continually push forward new concepts, new forms of expression and new ways to improve every facet of our existence. The creative impulse is of ...