In the news: Andrew Neil
St Andrews University had expanded its press office team to cope with the media interest in new student Prince William. But in this week's debacle over the intrusion by Prince Edward's Ardent...
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Of cakes and Allah
Authors Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould have again demonstrated how much they differ. After spending years clashing over evolutionary science, the combative duo switched to commenting on the...
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Comrade Hodge?
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge injected a little old Labour into the party's annual conference in Brighton this week. Mrs Hodge told a Universities UK fringe meeting that the drive to widen...
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Sniffing out cheats
Last week's launch of The Science Book was marked by a question from the audience to astronomer royal Sir Martin Rees about the prevalence of fraud in science. Sir Martin insisted that cheating would...
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No one up to Sizer job
Will John Sizer, chief executive of Scotland's funding council, have to rethink his retirement plans? Professor Sizer had said that he wanted to retire at Christmas but, with ten weeks to go, no...
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Don's Diary
Monday Woken up by noisy birds to a sunny but cool morning. My university flat is spacious if a little sparse, but a balcony overlooking the garden where some of the famous West Australian spring...
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On the move
Mary Stacey , a former solicitor specialising in employment law, has been nominated chair of the Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff , the new national pay negotiating machinery...
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Glittering prizes
Sir Michael Berry , professor of physics at the University of Bristol, has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Ulm, Germany . The American Psychological Association has presented the...
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Eyewitness: Tantura - the village with no future
Teddy Katz, an MA student at the University of Haifa, could not have imagined the controversy his dissertation on "The Exodus of the Arabs from Villages at the Southern Foothills of the Carmel in...
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World watch
Santa Marta The body of Consuelo Araœjo, the former Colombian culture minister who was kidnapped by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces leftist guerrilla group last week, was found on Sunday in...
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World view: Expansion without funding
India looks at privatisation, industry links and higher fees as a way out of its crisis. The problems of India's higher education sector seem to defy solutions. The system remains entrenched in an...
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Resolute minister eyes performance
The THES reports on how academics around the world fight their corner on pay. The German government wants to make academic salaries more dependent on performance, to make professorial pay more...
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'Salary only pays for my coffees'
The THES reports on how academics around the world fight their corner on pay. Spanish academics work for love rather than money. "Salaries have improved in recent years, but they are still low...
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Wages victory is a mixed blessing
The THES reports on how academics around the world fight their corner on pay. University staff unions in Australia now negotiate directly with institutions over wages and conditions. Academics are...
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Aid for EU students abroad
European Union citizens who fall on hard times while studying in another member state can now claim social benefits, the European Court of Justice has ruled. The ruling follows the case of Rudy...