Campus breathes life into Scots town
A regeneration project in Dumfries, which includes the country's first multi-university campus, has won the supreme award in the Dynamic Place Awards run by Scottish Enterprise and Miller Ventures....
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Vote of no confidence in Oxford Brookes v-c
Students at Oxford Brookes University have passed a vote of no confidence in vice-chancellor Graham Upton over plans to axe courses in geology, civil engineering, chemistry and cartography. The vote...
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Loughborough to plug Midlands brain drain
Loughborough University has been chosen by the Department for Education and Skills to pioneer a course aimed at plugging the graduate "brain drain" in the East Midlands. The region traditionally...
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Government urged to welcome refugee dons
John Ashworth, former Cabinet Office chief scientist and director of the London School of Economics and new president of the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (Cara), has cautioned the...
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Business school offers broader scope
The European Business School, based at Regents College in London, will offer postgraduate courses from September. The school has previously focused on undergraduate degrees, but it will now offer...
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Northern Ireland 'lacks entrepreneurial spirit'
Terri Scott, Ulster University's director of development, has said that Northern Ireland is lagging behind the rest of the UK and Ireland in entrepreneurship. Professor Scott, who has become full-...
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Next week
News Fellowship of the top teachers Features Multiculturalism under attack; Rohan Gunaratna gets inside the mind of al-Qaida; Clive Bloom dissects the history of bestsellers Books David Crystal on...
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Paris
French education minister Luc Ferry has ordered an inquiry after the cancellation of five examinations for teacher recruitment or promotion this year.
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Pamplona
A car bomb at the private University of Navarra, run by the conservative Catholic movement Opus Dei, has injured three people.
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Don's diary: Iranian art study tour
Saturday Shiraz: 19 staff, students and lifelong learners from Edinburgh College of Art tip off the Tehran flight. Wafts of rosewater in the terminal, a scented warm breeze and the sound of the...
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In the news: Ivan Lewis
The audience at Natfhe's conference in Torquay celebrated junior education minister Ivan Lewis's wedding anniversary on Monday with a mass walkout. It was always going to be difficult. Mr Lewis is...
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Ministerial madness
After the revelation that some senior members of the Association of University Teachers mischievously refer to higher education minister Margaret Hodge as "mad Madge" comes a reported confession from...
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WC fields
In a case of life imitating Laurie Taylor ("Top don brands high street loos a disgrace"), a researcher at the University of the West of England is promoting the "importance of maintaining a global...
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Taking the Mikhail
A newly discovered asteroid is about to be named after a Russian comedian. Nikolai Chernykh of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory wants to name the asteroid - which is seven miles across and...
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Special Brewster
Congratulations to Chris Brewster, who was last week awarded the George Petitpas memorial award for international people management. It is the first time a Briton has won the award. Professor...