Cern pulls plug on pioneering collider
The Large Electron Positron collider at Cern, the European particle physics laboratory, has been shut down, despite evidence that it could have found the elusive Higgs boson particle. Recent results...
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Bath vice-chancellor moves to Warwick
David VandeLinde, vice-chancellor at Bath University for the past eight years, has been named the next vice-chancellor for the University of Warwick. He will take up the post in August next year,...
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Oxford student's claim dismissed by judge
Oxford University student Qamar Nadeem Ahmed, who insisted he was treated unfairly when told to retake qualifying tests for a third time, had his complaints dismissed by a High Court judge this week...
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Late plea to save pay package
A battle for academic pay is under way as higher education chiefs plead with vice-chancellors to drop their opposition to setting minimum national terms and conditions. Sir Howard Newby, president of...
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Analysis: The survival of the well-endowed?
With talk of 'privatisation' forced on to the education agenda, Claire Sanders asks if universities could raise enough money to stay afloat The very mention of the word privatise sends vice-...
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Whistleblowers: Unwelcome criticism
Woe betide any academics who question the received wisdom at Surrey University's European Management School. It would seem from a memo obtained by The THES that the school's director, Paul Gamble,...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Finalise details for a workshop I have organised at Montford Bridge near Shrewsbury on the ecology and conservation of an endangered species, floating-leaved water plantain, or Luronium to her...
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Glittering prizes
De Montfort University has awarded honorary degrees to Christopher Bruce , artistic director of Rambert Dance Company, (doctor of art) and Maggie Semple , director of the learning experience for the...
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On the move
Sam Leinster , director of medical studies and professor of surgery at the University of Liverpool, is inaugural dean of the new medical school at the University of East Anglia . Robert Fraser has...
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In the news
As floodwater seeps over the country, Sir John Harman, chairman of the Environment Agency, has often followed in its wake, insisting "it's no good pontificating from an office in London". He has...
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Sticky wicket
The dedication of some university chancellors knows no bounds. Lord MacLaurin, England and Wales cricket board chairman and chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire, has blamed his university...
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High flood-level talks
When York University vice-chancellor Ron Cooke wanted a word this week with the city's MP, Hugh Bayley, who lives on the same street, he found a neighbourly chat harder than he thought. Sixteen feet...
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Nineties' brain power
There is nothing like first-hand experience for informing high-level research. Hence the decision by Michael Denham, 92, a consultant and lecturer at Northwick Park Hospital, to take time out for a...
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On a baby-kissing trail
Strathclyde University press officer Judith Fryer is on the campaign trail as Liberal Democrat candidate for the Scottish Parliament in the late Donald Dewar's Glasgow Anniesland seat. Kissing babies...
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Identity search
The marketing director for the University for Industry demonstrated refreshing honesty when challenged over the title of his organisation by university administrators at their conference last week. "...