Putin to revamp corrupt system
Russian president Vladimir Putin has expressed support for standardised school-leaving tests aimed at tackling corruption in higher education. Mr Putin gave his backing for unified state exams that...
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Final frontier requires pioneering solutions
Will science win or lose? The UK must decide where it stands on the future of European policy, says Ian Halliday Across Europe there is an acceptance that a knowledge-based economy, driven by...
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Alison Wolf
Civic universities are losing out in league tables, but a push to re-establish city identities could help to shake things up. I'm a child of the "home counties", a name that itself speaks volumes...
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Don's diary: New beginnings in Bhutan
October "So, when do you want the university to start?" I ask. "In June," answers Lyonpo Sangay Ngedup, the minister of health and education in Bhutan. I am leading a consultancy team charged with...
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Pre-emptive reaction
Tim Yeo, shadow health and education secretary, this week stood up in Parliament to denounce the higher education bill as "bad for students, bad for universities and bad for taxpayers". However, a...
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While they weren't sleeping
The latest academic to graduate from the Robert Winston school of media profile-raising is the University of Surrey's Neil Stanley. Fresh as a daisy from appearing as the sleep expert on Channel 4's...
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Loose language
Each month, the Annals of Improbable Research selects a report worthy of closer scrutiny. The Diary is pleased to bring you this month's choice: "Sars transmission: language and droplet production",...
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Reading expenses
A Montreal business has been busted for selling an illegal product popular with many students - illegally photocopied textbooks. Bailiffs swooped on bookshop U Compute, near Concordia University, and...
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Why I...believe university pay needs to reflect performance
Pay management in higher education is clinging to tradition. Sadly, tradition here means that men tend to be paid more than women, that long service is valued above ability and results, and that...
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Best not to kill bill
Labour's plan may not be perfect but it is the sector's best hope in years, says Robert Stevens We all know that over the past 20 years the average payment per student in English universities has...
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Only new breed will save planet
Conservationists must learn to work in concrete and equatorial jungles, says Richard Ladle. We are entering a critical period for life on our small blue planet. According to an international study...
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Lack of medical lecturers threatens NHS salvation
Government plans to improve healthcare in the UK are in jeopardy after the latest figures revealed that there may be too few medical lecturers to teach the next generation of doctors. The number of...
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Luton set to lay off 100 staff
Luton University will lose about 100 staff - more than 10 per cent of its total - through compulsory and voluntary redundancies, it emerged this week. Twenty-two academics and 12 support staff have...
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MRC pays to support youth
The Medical Research Council has made the first of a raft of potential changes to its much-criticised funding system. It has announced a commitment of almost £5 million for individual project grants...
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Are you a first aider or a last rites type of person?
Without petroleum jelly in your desk drawer, you're just not ready for that civil disaster at work, says Valerie Atkinson Now that the possibility of apocalyptic war has been so radically diminished...