Brave Scots win minds
Scotland is better than England at getting people from disadvantaged backgrounds into higher education while avoiding controversial policies such as the 50 per cent target and top-up fees. Olga...
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Some stumbling on common ground
The Bologna process' 40 signatories have been working to forge a European higher education area by 2010, but progress has been patchy, THES writers find. Degree structure The corralling of centuries...
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Penn project boosts inner-city expectations
At a school on the edge of the University of Pennsylvania campus in the low-income West Philadelphia neighbourhood, seven-year-olds learn foreign languages and play musical instruments. The contrast...
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Canadian student aid fund hampered
A fund set up to ease student debt in Canada has been hampered by the powerful provincial and territorial governments, according to a report. The Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation (CMSF),...
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Scientist cleared in treason trial
A scientist accused of selling space secrets to China has been cleared during the first jury trial in a treason case in Russia. Valentin Danilov, 53, head of thermophysics at Krasnoyarsk Technical...
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UK creative community takes it to another level
The elevation of the AHRB to the status of research council will benefit everyone, argues Geoffrey Crossick So much controversy has swirled around the higher education bill that it may come as a...
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Martin Ince
It is clear from recent issues of this newspaper that unpaid recognition by the British establishment, in the form of honours from Her Majesty, has lost none of its appeal in the new century. Some of...
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Don's diary: Science of catching the light
Friday: 8pm We are back on board ship after opening up the British Antarctic Survey's summer base at Signy. I am taking time out from my astroplasma physics research to travel with the survey as an...
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A tasty rum and Coke
Congratulations to David Triesman, former head of the Association of University Teachers, who was last week appointed to the House of Lords. His old trade union colleagues at lecturers' union Natfhe...
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Knot to be expected
Wendy Alexander, who dramatically and unexpectedly resigned as Scotland's enterprise and lifelong learning minister in 2002, has lost none of her capacity to surprise. Friends and family turned up...
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Whodunit this time?
It's a big "well done" from the Diary to those academics appearing in the 2004 edition of Who's Who for the first time. The list includes professors Les Ebdon (Luton), Alison Richard (Cambridge),...
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A cat's educational tale
Finally, a heart-warming tale from the West Country. Plymouth College of Further Education has helped reunite a one-eyed black cat with its owners after a five-year absence. The cat, nicknamed One-...
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Why I ...believe scientists and politicians need to work together
Lord Winston proposed in last week's THES that scientists should not be too close to the government and that the public "should... have a major input into how scientific knowledge is generated and...
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This plan is all there is
Killing Labour's proposed tuition scheme could turn a crisis into a disaster, warns Chris Patten The debate about student tuition fees has blotted out discussion of where our higher education system...
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Is your park really sparking?
Do universities really benefit from science parks? Colin Lizieri assesses dubious assumptions Like the latest children's toy, science parks have become must-have developments for universities....