Don's Diary: Extreme archaeology
July: Oxford It's that time of year again. The usual eve-of-battle doubts - three months of archaeological excavation about to begin. Will we survive? Early tomorrow we leave for Brittany. Brittany 8...
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Debt fears deter entry
At least one in four qualified but disadvantaged students doubt that they will go to university because of debt, according to a Universities UK survey released today. This is the first clear evidence...
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Inventors' shop is no wind-up
Student entrepreneurs at Oxford University are hoping to give inventor Trevor Baylis his first success in the quest to establish an inventors' shop in major university towns. "I am working with a...
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Ex-polys losers in research cull
Up to half the former polytechnics may be effectively stripped of their research role under proposals in the government's strategy document due next month. Education secretary Charles Clarke is...
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Appointments
Cranfield School of Management has appointed Michael Osbaldeston as its director from next January. Professor Osbaldeston has been head of global learning at Shell International. He is also director...
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'Cheque-book entry' rejected
Twenty thousand students marched through London on Wednesday because they do not want to live in a society where access to education is based on wealth, said National Union of Students president...
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In the news: Richard Lambert
The future finances of Britain's universities could ultimately lie in the hands of a journalist. In the pre-budget report last week, chancellor Gordon Brown announced that the former editor of the...
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Review to float top-up 'hybrid'
The government's review of higher education looks set to recommend top-up fees repaid by graduates according to earnings. Ministers, who are finalising next month's higher education strategic review...
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Ireland signals return of fees
Tuition fees may return in Ireland after higher education became a casualty of efforts to rein in public spending in this week's budget. Trinity College Dublin imposed an immediate freeze on filling...
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Hefce spending scrutiny sparks run-in with v-cs
The Higher Education Funding Council for England was denounced as "totalitarian" by vice-chancellors this week after it suggested that universities could earn autonomy by demonstrating good...
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Next week
News Down to business: why are graduates unemployable? Features Does TV enhance or diminish history? Universities that cover up the extent of cheating in exams; Is Dubya cleverer than we think? Books...
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Free universities from fund straitjacket, insists CIHE
Higher education institutions should be allowed to set their own tuition fees and be freed from government intervention and the financial "straitjacket of the state", a report backed by Downing...
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Cambridge v-c voices doubts over top-up fees
Cambridge University's new vice-chancellor, Alison Richard, this week defied expectations and sounded a strong note of caution over the introduction of top-up tuition fees. In an interview with The...
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First impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a new translation of the world's earliest novel: "I came to Warley on a wet September morning with the...
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Minds meet on two-way street
Consciousness and the novel