Graduate starting wage up 4.8%
Graduate starting-salary rises are expected to hit a five-year high this year, with some employers offering top candidates up to £35,000. Firms represented by the Association of Graduate Recruiters...
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Political discord divides faculty
Dissension between conservatives and liberals continues to rage on US campuses. Each side claims the other is preventing it from expressing its views. A conservative legislator in the Midwestern...
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Aussies ditch ocker accent
Strewth! "Strine" is disappearing from the mouths of Australians, and the TV programme Kath and Kim could be to blame, writes Geoff Maslen in Melbourne. Linguists at Sydney's Macquarie University...
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Research row escalates
The vice-chancellor, the chairman and a psychiatry professor at Gothenburg University have been charged with "intentional or negligent misconduct" by Sweden's justice ombudsman after failing to...
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Talks tackle diversity
Moderate Muslim academics are to explore how their universities can be used to secure social and economic development in ways that could reconcile differences within their communities. They want to...
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Bologna to home in on social issues
Ministers from the 40 states signed up to the Bologna Process will be urged to put social issues at the top of the agenda for Europe's higher education arena when they meet in Bergen in May. At the...
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Islamic campus gets nod
Albanian Premier Fatos Nano has offered political and financial support to help establish an Islamic university in Albania. The announcement, made to a gathering of Albanian Muslim leaders, came only...
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Rebellion resisted
Nigeria's education minister Fabian Osuji has intervened to end campus unrest by ordering vice-chancellors to shelve plans to privatise student hostels. The National Association of Students resisted...
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Creativity crushed by a super-fuelled juggernaut
The focus on directed 'big science' is leading to a loss of ingenuity and objectivity, says Richard Bateman Over the past two decades, the scientific community has come to grudgingly accept a raft of...
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Gary Day
A brainstorming session on how to recruit the next intake of undergraduates results in innovations and some scorched thighs We all need undergraduates. How would universities survive without them?...
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At sixes and sevens over 3K
Has the Labour Government already decided to raise the cap on top-up fees, four years before its 2009 review of the current £3,000 limit? Chris Grayling, Tory higher education spokesman, this week...
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Taxing times for trailing Tories
But although the Tories may have put clear blue water between themselves and Labour over tuition fees, academics shouldn't expect higher education to be a central plank of Conservative electioneering...
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Well in there
Appearing before the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee can be a bruising business, and senior figures in the higher education policy world were taking no chances when they were...
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Cambridge TLC for 'ELC'
Cambridge University students are showing new solidarity with neighbouring Anglia Polytechnic University by helping the institution think up a new name. Suggestions in Varsity magazine include...
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Tasteful request
In the gents' toilets of Oxford University's plant sciences department, an official notice reads: "Please don't throw chewing gum into the urinal as it tastes horrid afterwards." diary@thes.co.uk