Raising the alarm
(Photograph) - Robert Senior of the University of Northumbria is one of the winners of this year's Royal Society of Arts student design awards thanks to his novel "phone-fob" alarm design. The alarm...
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Authors missing out on copyright fortune
Academic authors are losing hundreds of thousands of pounds in revenues from the use of their work for teaching and research because the Copyright Licensing Agency cannot manage the complex system of...
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Sex attacker refused right to OU study
A sex attacker serving life for subjecting a fellow Southampton University student to a terrifying ordeal failed in a High Court bid for the right to take an Open University degree. Lawyers for Larry...
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Culture starts at home for Erasmus
Parents of students who study abroad on Erasmus programmes tend to be more highly qualified than the parents of other students, according to a European Commission report. The report aimed to...
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Don's diary
Friday Only a masochist would choose to spend the night at the unlovely Hounslow civic centre. I had planned, after the polls closed, to thank my helpers, go home and watch the expected Tory victory...
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Industrial break
Even union leaders need a break from industrial strife, it seems. As revealed by education secretary David Blunkett at the Association of University Teachers' Summer Council, AUT general secretary...
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Showing the way
There is a simple solution to the difficulties faced by the blind and partially sighted at Nottingham University's new Jubilee Campus (page 3). Before it opened, education secretary David Blunkett...
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New goal for business
Regular diary readers cannot have missed the fact that universities have been going football crazy in an attempt to woo students. It was, therefore, only a matter of time before rugby got in on the...
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Radical departure
Students at Kent University displayed their radicalism last week, first by demonstrating outside the registry, then by occupying a senate building in a protest against changes to the exam timetable....
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In the news
Adult Learners Week, which begins next week for the ninth time, will be largely the creation of one man. Alan Tuckett, director of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education since 1988,...
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On the move
David Fletcher, registrar and secretary of the University of Sheffield, has been appointed secretary of the Committee of University Chairmen. He will succeed Michael Shattock in January. David Porter...
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Glittering prizes
New fellows elected to the Royal Society this year are: Michael Akam, University of Cambridge; James Binney, University of Oxford; Brice Bosnich, University of Chicago; Cyrus Chothia, MRC Laboratory...
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Take a bite of the Big Apple
New York is hot again. Harvey J. Kaye reports on the essential reading matter for visitors to the city Our younger daughter travelled with her high-school chorus to New York City for spring break....
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New Delhi
The Indian government has stumped its critics by appointing Deepak Nayyara, a leftwing economist, vice-chancellor of Delhi University. This reverses the pattern of the past two years of placing pro-...
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Moscow
The first Russian translation of Summerhill, which describes the philosophy and practice of free-school founder A. S. Neill, has been published in Moscow. Part of the series Classical Works of...