Brains before beauty
The Diary wonders whether the former Miss Universe will be spending more time on her studies after she was stripped of her title this week. Oxana Fedorova, a 24-year-old PhD student and lecturer at...
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DFES's call for help
Post-1992 universities might be interested in news that has reached the ears of The Diary. It involves a telephone call from the Department for Education and Skills to Universities UK. The DFES...
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Campus high-fliers
Plymouth University has an unusual claim to fame - it is the only university in the country to accommodate an air cadet squadron's headquarters on one of its campuses. Since its formation more than...
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Pop goes the president
Pop Idol -style television shows could be used to elect politicians. Plans are afoot in the US to develop a show that will hunt for untapped political leadership skills just as Pop Idol sought...
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Scientific truth is not the only truth out there
It is right for scientists to raise the Big Questions, but they are mistaken if they believe they can answer them all, argues Mary Warnock. Science and philosophy were once indistinguishable. It is...
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Freshers' maths skills tested
A new activity set to become a tradition in freshers' week is sweeping the country - maths tests. With concern mounting about the skills that mathematics A level provides, more than 200 maths,...
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Bell Labs man guilty of fraud
A young physicist forged research results on at least 16 occasions, according to an independent inquiry at Bell Labs in the US. Jan Hendrik Schön was named as the sole perpetrator of the worst...
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IoE teacher training saved by £3m funding boost
Ministers have found a £3 million rescue package to prevent one of Britain's leading teacher-training providers from abandoning the subject and starving schools of more than 1,000 recruits a year....
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Update: 13:10
A-level controversy report expected today The inquiry into this summer's A level controversy will recommend that some entries may have to be regraded, PA News reported today. Inquiry chairman Mike...
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Return examining to academia
Universities would do the best job - and they need the cash, argues Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon. What should happen to A levels? In my view, they should probably be returned to universities. I say "...
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Postgrads mean business
Business and management studies are by far the most popular subjects among overseas postgraduate students coming to the UK, says events organiser Top University Tour. Engineering is the top choice of...
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Italian police probe exam 'fix'
Police in Bari last week raided a room in which an exam for an academic post was being held after a report alleging that the winner had been chosen beforehand. The University of Bari, in southern...
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Jerusalem
Israeli academics have circulated a letter warning the international community that their government may use the "fog of war" against Iraq to commit "crimes" against the Palestinian people.
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Karachi
Denmark's Selandia College and the University of Central Lancashire are collaborating in a European Union-funded project to create a virtual university in Pakistan.
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Today's news
Too late for A-level victims, say universities Universities have warned ministers that they face unprecedented levels of disruption if they are forced to take in thousands of new students as a result...