Diminishing returns on increasing investment
Social return on investment is more difficult to measure in education than in, say, health. The social return from hospitals needs no explanation. They save lives. Above and beyond sufficient numbers...
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Diplomatic impunity?
A senior British diplomat has been flouting diplomatic service rules by offering to work as an immigration consultant for universities. The THES revealed in September that Ian Wall, former head of...
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Judge queries Cambridge's 'luxury' Lawyers
A High Court judge has criticised Cambridge University for spending unnecessary sums on legal representation in its battle against lecturer Gill Evans and then demanding that she pays for it....
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Degrees do deliver for graduate job seekers
Nearly all graduates have a job three and a half years after leaving university or college, and the majority have a "graduate" job, a national survey has found. While a significant proportion are...
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RAE faces bias accusation
The last research assessment exercise may have been biased in favour of departments with members on assessment panels, research suggests. Chris Roberts, a senior lecturer in medical statistics at the...
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Vigorous response needed on equality
Universities must set an example in ending discrimination against black and ethnic minorities, delegates heard at a conference called to check on progress since the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, writes...
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In the news
After Martin McGuinness's appointment as minister for education in the new Irish executive, Sean Farren will appear a relatively uncontroversial choice as minister for higher and further education,...
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On the move
Three professors have joined the Royal Free and University College Medical School from Hammersmith Hospital. They are: Mark Pepys, an expert in amyloidosis, a disorder of protein metabolism,...
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Glittering prizes
Mary McAleese, president of Ireland, will today receive an honorary degree from the University of Surrey. She was nominated for the degree by St Mary's University College, Twickenham, one of the...
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Women's work
A modest proposal from Mary Osborn, chair of the EU inquiry into women and science (see page 32). Asked why Portugal is the only EU nation with a respectable supply of women professors (over 30 per...
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Dying for a degree
An interesting new report from the Annals of Improbable Research, compiled by Mike Adams of Eastern Connecticut State University. He claims that years of study have revealed that a student's...
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Eyewitness
Ahliya University professor Farouk Kadouda, a prominent critic of the Sudanese government, returned home on October 31 to find his teenage daughter beaten unconscious with a warning note for him by...
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World watch
The standstill on work to reduce the tilt on the leaning tower of Pisa has led to the order that only three of the tower's seven bells be rung on Sundays and public holidays. Project coordinator...
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World watch
Nine Palestinian academics from Nablus and Ramallah have been held by the Palestinian Authority for signing a petition criticising the authority after the Oslo Agreements. Nine members of the...
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World watch
Malaysia's private universities may only grant degrees after three-and-a-half years of study, the education ministry has ruled. Some students were receiving degrees after only two-and-a-half years,...