Kremlin backs modular reforms
Russia is moving towards convergence with the Bologna Process after the Kremlin gave its backing to the reform of the country's notoriously conservative state university sector. Education Ministry...
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Memorials to lost Jews
After decades of silence Italy's universities are starting to acknowledge their part in the persecution of Jewish academics and students under Mussolini. In 1938, legislation introduced by the...
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Paris looks to build more halls
Paris city council is prepared to pay for the construction of more student homes if it can get the land to build them on, Bernard Delano, the capital's mayor, said last week, writes Jane Marshall in...
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Anger grows in clash over elite university site
Austrian Education Minister Elisabeth Gehrer has come under fire for a decision to create an elite university on the site of a former psychiatric hospital used by the Nazis to carry out acts of "...
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Today's students get a raw deal and they know it
Boris Johnson learnt two things when he ran for rector. The first: being English and Tory has its disadvantages. And the second? In the course of an inglorious campaign to become lord rector of...
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Gary Day
We live in a strange age. On the one hand, there's the preaching of modernisation, on the other the preaching of God. Preaching? Perhaps the two are not so different after all. Modernisation involves...
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Rude encounter with watchdog
Before you pick up your telephone, take note - Big Brother is listening. The partner of a former Cardiff University academic had a surprising call recently. After ten years at Cardiff the academic,...
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Speculation on chair of 1994
After months of feverish gossiping, and a lot of misguided betting, we finally know that David Eastwood is the new chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. But the tenners...
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Experts in field may turn ugly
Quote of the week comes from Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho, defending his famously inferior home pitch. "Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are...
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Neil runs rings round audience
That mysterious mobile phone that everyone dreads blared out loudly while Neil Kinnock, former Labour leader and chairman of the British Council, gave a speech at the Guild of Educators dinner last...
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Obsessive rantings and brooding visions
BLAKE'S JERUSALEM Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge University. Until May 14 William Blake's most famous lyric, Jerusalem , is a heartfelt protest against the failures of spirituality...
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Justice for a hero of hidden horrors
The vilification of Sir Roy Meadow shames the medical establishment. But his legal victory gives experts hope, argues David Southall The strident media propaganda against child protection specialists...
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United we stand but divided we negotiate
Unions are keen to shake up the skewed pay system, but they diverge on strategy, says Christina McAnea As the academic unions start the process for industrial action over pay, Unison will be sending...
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Go to aisle 4 to pick up your 2:1
Treating students as customers has wider implications than realists may have realised, warns Bob Brecher Shock horror! Students unprepared for university, claim admissions tutors! They expect "to be...
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Don't strike fear into their hearts
The viva is a key opportunity for a PhD candidate to defend a thesis, but it should also be viewed as a learning experience for all and not a chore or an opportunity to belittle the student, writes...