Who'll be the last to beat the clock?
As the world's top athletes prepare for the Sydney Olympics, Geoff Watts asks if we can continue to set new records or if our species is fast reaching its best. Since 1954, when Roger Bannister ran...
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After fascism, ideological waste disposal,but what now?
Jan-Werner Muller asks if intellectuals in unified Germany are as powerful as their predecessors. Reports about the "crisis" or even the "death" of the intellectual tend to be greatly exaggerated and...
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There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya...
On the centenary of Nietzsche's death, Duncan Large and Richard Smith discuss his place in contemporary debate and ask how a Nietzschean campus might function. The post-structuralist Nietzsche vogue...
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Where lies the true measure of a man?
Jonathan Rutherford argues that a good man is today characterised by the quality of his relationships. In 1992, two academics - Norman Dennis and George Erdos - wrote a tract called Families without...
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Santa Clara
Ecuadorian archaeologists say that a cache of precious objects including more than 11,000 pieces of silver discovered by the Ecuadorian army on the island of Santa Clara in the southern province of...
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University College Scarborough
* University College Scarborough will officially become part of the university of Hull this week following two years of discussions.
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Istanbul
Faculty at Turkey's Dokuz Eylul University have finally had their choice of rector confirmed with the backing of the country's president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer. The higher education authority agreed to...
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Don's Diary
Day One Land in Jamaica, 33 years to the week since my first visit. I am here to write a report on old building society documents; can they sustain a business history? I jostle with the crowds and...
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Hole truth
(Photograph) - Birkbeck College students struck gold - or at least ancient vessels for extracting silver and gold from ore - on an archaeological evaluation of a car park in Bermondsey for the London...
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Lottery rejects castle repairs
Cash and conservationists confound Durham University's plans for historic sites Durham University has accused the Heritage Lottery Fund of "scandalous discrimination" against higher education. Adrian...
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Female blonding
I am blonde, not bland, and an unashamedly committed feminist who does not judge a person's politics or intelligence by their hair colour - or any other physical feature. Amy Hale Research fellow in...
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Podgorica
One of the two Canadians held by the Serb military authorities along with two Britons arrested near the Montenegro-Kosovo border is a business student at the University of Victoria, British Columbia...
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Glittering prizes
King's College London has awarded honorary fellowships to: The Duke of Wellington, descendant of a college founder; Lady Wolfson, trustee of the Wolfson Foundation; and Jose Blanco, trustee and...
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On the move
Jeremy Peat, chief economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland and Alan Tripp, former managing director of Sykes Enterprises Inc, have been elected to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council....
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In the news
Peter Williams, who this week produced the damning report into Derby University's operations in Israel, is perhaps one of the least popular figures in higher education. The man who pioneered the "...