VR keeps training on track
Train drivers can learn how to handle emergencies resulting from extreme weather conditions or farm animals on the track thanks to a new virtual reality simulator. Designers at Teesside University's...
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Plagiarist may lose job to set example
A Korean professor who admitted intentionally reproducing work from a Canadian academic paper may lose his job as part of a drive by his government to demonstrate that it intends to get tough on...
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Union fights to reveal Aussie v-cs' fat salaries
The A$261,000 (£95,238) a year salary paid to Australian prime minister John Howard is dwarfed by the salary packages received by many of the nation's vice-chancellors, which are believed to exceed A...
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Don's Diary
April The deadline for submissions to the 2001 research assessment exercise is only a few days off, and the jammed helplines testify to a frenzy of activity in institutions across the country. A...
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In the news: Nuala O'Loan
Nuala O'Loan, the police ombudsman for Northern Ireland, will need all her strength of character in the next few weeks as she fights to defend her office's report into the police handling of the...
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Candid Christmas card
Universities UK has just issued its contender for the worst Christmas card of the millennium, with a collage of pictures of its staff in the shape of the organisation's logo. To be fair, most of them...
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Oxford's crown slips
While today's results of the research assessment exercise are generally good, not everyone improved. Take, for example, the University of Oxford's submission for history, which slipped from 5* to 5....
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Powerful speakers
Darwin College, Cambridge, has announced its lecture series for 2002, which will be on the theme of "power". Speakers will include veteran politician Tony Benn and Mary Archer. The college is keeping...
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Just Warwick
The University of Warwick is undergoing a rebranding. It is dropping the stuffy old crest from its logo, replacing it with a stronger emphasis on the word Warwick. A draft consultation paper on the...
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Say what?
The Diary congratulates the University of Dundee for winning a Golden Bull from the Plain English Campaign. Every year, the campaign group hands out eight such awards for the worst abuses of the...
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Taking time out
Congratulations to Mike Donn-elly, dean of Paisley University's business school, who is taking leave of absence from higher education after being appointed principal special adviser to Scotland's new...
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Boom and bust
A late entry for the 2001 Nonsense on Stilts prize comes from the normally rational Save British Science. Director Peter Cotgreave points out that the 100th anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi's first...
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Win-win situation helps UK research stay on top
The results of the 2001 research assessment exercise should be celebrated, says Howard Newby. By any measure, the results of the 2001 research assessment exercise are impressive. They demonstrate...
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A risk of dissension
To widen access, Tony Blair may have to antagonise Middle England, says Wendy Piatt. Only the most cynical would doubt the government's earnestness about widening participation in higher education....
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Hitting target will not be cheap
Attracting more school pupils into higher education requires greater resources, says Diana Warwick. Expansion of higher education means social inclusion. What might have been seen as a moral...