Don's diary: child migrants' search for justice
Saturday New Orleans is a city waiting for night. It is not only the streetcars that are named desire - the entire French Quarter dissolves into jazz, blues and sex. Sit on the balcony. Below a...
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Pipe dream or pear-shaped future?
Tradition demands that The Diary's new year message outlines the shape of higher education for the coming year. This year, given the imminent release of the government's strategy paper, we are...
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Why I think the RAE review needs to go back to basics
Former research director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and member of the social policy and social work panel for the 2001 research assessment exercise The research assessment exercise in its...
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Free up our enterprise
Want strong, solvent universities? Cut their dependence on the public purse, says Patrick Dowling The government wishes to establish a sound financial framework for our universities. Lowering the...
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Banda Aceh
Imprisoned Scottish-born academic Lesley McCulloch has begun a hunger strike after her US friend Joy Lee Sadler was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
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Your course can be a real corker
When it comes to constructing a course, universities should chuck out the chintz and make the design clear, stimulating and satisfying, writes Paul Kleiman. Universities are idiosyncratic...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching in higher education? Our new column asks teachers how they manage . Name: Frank Griffith Age: 43 Job title: Jazz and popular music lecturer Job description: I...
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Top teachers go private
A cycle of educational advantage whereby privately taught pupils go to top universities, gain good degrees and return to teach in independent schools has been revealed in a survey. The survey,...
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'Bill' is the word on Oxford lips
Former US president Bill Clinton is emerging as the front-runner for the next chancellor of Oxford University, although no formal nominations have yet been placed. The death at the weekend of Lord...
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Unesco head rejects Israel boycott amid Paris storm
Koïchiro Matsuura, director-general of Unesco, this week rejected an academic boycott of Israel. His comments came as two Parisian universities wrestled with the boycott issue, which erupted in...
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Draft MoU for the COST research project "Oral facial development and regeneration"
Brussels, 09 Jan 2003 Full text of Document 286/02 Subject: Draft Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a European Concerted Research Action designated as COST Action B23 "Oral facial...
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MoU for the COST research project "Apicomplexian Biology in the Post-Genomic Era"
Brussels, 09 Jan 2003 Full text of Document 201/03 Subject: Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a European Concerted Research Action designated as COST Action 857 "Apicomplexian...
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Draft MoU for the COST research project "Nanoscale and Ultrafast Photonics"
Brussels, 09 Jan 2003 Full text of Document 280/02 Subject: Draft Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a European Concerted Research Action designated as COST Action 288 "Nanoscale...
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Draft MoU for the COST research project "Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) in Diffused Communication Systems"
Brussels, 09 Jan 2003 Full text of Document 8/02 Subject: Draft Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a European Concerted Research Action designated as COST Action 286 "...
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Draft MoU for the COST research project "Con-GAS, Gesture Controlled Audio Systems"
Brussels, 09 Jan 2003 Full text of Document 9/02 Subject: Draft Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a European Concerted Research Action designated as COST Action 287 "Con-GAS,...