Overhaul of Turkish institutions shelved
The Turkish government has shelved plans to assume direct control of universities and dismiss their rectors and deans after a wave of criticism from academics and the media. The Islamic-based...
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Presidential farce costs over $3.6m
One of the most bizarre stories of presidential succession in American higher education history has exposed a culture of gamesmanship and expensive executive perks at the fourth-biggest private...
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Academics should get new job descriptions
French academics' responsibilities and areas of work should be more precisely defined, a report commissioned by education minister Luc Ferry has recommended. The monolithic structure governing...
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McMaster nukes terror claim
A leading Canadian research university was deluged with media interest when The Washington Times claimed that an al-Qaida cell seeking materials for a dirty bomb was linked to its nuclear research...
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What is the real cost when the user pays?
These are boom times worldwide for higher and further education. In most advanced countries, the old distinctions between compulsory education at primary and secondary levels and post-compulsory...
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Alison Wolf
Instead of worrying about tuition fees scaring off EU students, we should concentrate on attracting the best overseas students. A few weeks ago the British Council warned that higher tuition fees...
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The season for self-promotion
As Christmas carols ring out in the aisles, the Diary has received the first entry for this year's worst Christmas greeting competition. It's a calendar produced by Intellectual Partnerships...
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Cull makes St John's fair game
St John's College, Cambridge, is under fire for deciding to cull its Canada geese. The college said it had received complaints about the geese gathering in its grounds and disturbing the working life...
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Ubiquitous cheating
Students at Rensselaer Polytechnic University in New York State have been taking advantage of the use of laptops to cheat in exams, invigilators have discovered. A report on the virtues of "...
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A solo stand against the trend
As the trend for collaborative, interdisciplinary team-working sweeps the nation, Martin Kemp, professor of the history of art and a fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford, has his work - as...
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This laureate's a no-brainer
Why did the scarecrow win the Nobel prize? He was out standing in his field.
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Don's diary: Sites for lifelong unlearning and stamps
Thursday Anish Kapoor remains at the top of the hit list for the fifth month running. His name in a search string leads more internet users to my website than any other, which is a bit frustrating as...
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Why I... have no regrets about having left academe
Mark Kleinman. Head of the Housing and Homelessness Unit at the Greater London Authority The conference facilitator suggested introducing me as an "ex-academic". That didn't sound right. "I think it...
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Gridlocked by transfer
The lack of institutional lines of command can stall collaborative projects, says Peter Coveney.
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Why we're all theorists now
There was never a time 'before theory'; there can't be a time after, argues Alastair Renfrew. Theory, it seems, is dead. The eager obituaries, which began to appear in the late 1990s, roughly at the...