Analysis: Grants to research elite on the slide
Three of the top four research institutions will receive less in next year's funding allocations from Hefce. Alison Goddard reports. The leading research universities will get less grant money next...
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Student distress burdens tutors
More than a quarter of personal tutors have encountered students with "severe" or "life-threatening" problems in the past five years, according to a survey carried out by Hull University academics....
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Don's Diary
June 1999 Notice rise in the number of conversations about reading groups and references to them in newspapers. To find out more, I advertise and send out questionnaires. Start to grasp importance of...
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Glittering prizes
The University of North London has conferred honorary degrees on: Jane Lane , formerly of the education department in the Commission for Racial Equality; footballer Ian Wright ; Lord Clinton-Davies...
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In the news: Jim Scudamore
It has been a tough week for Jim Scudamore, chief veterinary officer at the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The 56-year-old University of Liverpool graduate, who is responsible for...
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On the move
The University of Bradford has appointed Diana Anderson and Val Randall of the department of biological sciences to professorships. John Campbell , fellow of New College, Oxford , has been appointed...
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Nomenklatura UK
Hugo Radice, director of Leeds University Centre for Russian, Eurasian and Central European Studies, has a novel take on why we complain about the research assessment exercise and the teaching...
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Classroom criminals
The Universities UK funding options group, in its final report, revealed some interesting benefits of higher education. It has identified no fewer than 11 reasons why higher education is a good thing...
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Learn to go alone
Rose Mary Farenden, a senior executive with the Ford Motor Company, has revealed what life was like as the only woman in the mechanical engineering class at Queen's University, Belfast, in the early...
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Eyewitness
Jews believe Jerusalem's Temple Mount was where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac in a test of his obedience. To Christians, it is where Jesus overturned the tables of the moneychangers and was...
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World watch
Washington DC In his first budget, United States President George W. Bush is to include aid for higher education and science, including a doubling of the allocation for the National Institutes of...
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Web weaves togetherness
The US system of regional accreditation may not survive the trend for online degrees, says Geoffrey Alderman. Last autumn, the eight regional commissions that accredit higher-education institutions...
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Islamic threat to women's college
One of Africa's oldest universities for women is struggling to survive in the face of official policies to promote fundamentalist Islamic values. Khartoum's Ahfad University, which teaches only in...
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Minister faces fraud allegations
Zimbabwe information minister Jonathan Moyo is being sued in Kenya for allegedly embezzling £51,600 from a Ford Foundation-funded project on alternative research in East Africa during the 1990s. The...
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Outspoken minister saves Quebec HE funds
Canadian education minister François Legault took a political risk by questioning his government's commitment to higher education and, in the process, may have saved Quebec universities from millions...