Floppy's no good in bed
Over the past week, a row has been raging in cyberspace between university librarians after an article on Marquette University in the US, which will be stocked primarily with computer consoles rather...
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Bingo with the lingo
Language was key to the success of education secretary Estelle Morris in gaining money for education in the spending review apparently. Ms Morris deployed new Labour buzzwords to woo the prime...
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Sounds about right
Evidence of hard work at Amazon last week. It recommended that The Diary buy the Stereophonics CD Just Enough Education to Perform . Either Amazon has noticed the titles of books for which The Diary...
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A fair, flexible system is an economic necessity
The UK must look to Europe and the US to develop the higher education system it needs, argues David Robertson The biggest public spending settlement in living memory, higher education prospects...
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Spending plans welcome, but pay still an issue
In a week of collapsing stock markets in London and New York, chancellor Gordon Brown is starting the expansion of public spending he has always wanted in a climate far more uncertain than the...
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Madrid
Josep Pique, former minister of foreign affairs, has replaced Ana Birules as Spain's minister for science and technology in a cabinet reshuffle.
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In a linguistic jam
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge has revealed herself to be a budding linguist. She told a Westminster Hall debate on language teaching and learning, earlier this month, that she was...
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Chuffed chiefs
Yet more entries have arrived for the competition to identify the collective noun for a train load of vice-chancellors. Readers have suggested a consignment or, in the light of the spending review, a...
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Falling demand threatens to scupper target
Demand for higher education is stagnant, endangering the government's 50 per cent participation target, according to figures published today, writes Alison Goddard. The number of UK school-leavers...
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Plagiarism puts Monash v-c out of job
The vice-chancellor of one of the world's top universities was forced to quit last week after an investigation by The THES revealed that he had been a serial plagiarist. Monash University, in...
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Science world stung by more fraud allegations
Two more allegations of research fraud have hit the science world following recent events at Bell Labs. It has emerged that Victor Ninov, a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has...
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Europe's top computer goes to Daresbury
The next-generation supercomputer, the most powerful available to researchers in Europe, will be sited at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire. A joint team from Daresbury and Edinburgh University will...
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Project aims to power environmental change
The environmental record of universities will be scrutinised in a two-year project led by the University of Bradford. Project director Peter Hopkinson, senior lecturer in environmental management,...
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Professor loses court action against Leeds
A professor has lost his claim that his employer, Leeds University, drove him to a nervous breakdown. Esmail Foumeny, a professor of chemical engineering, resigned as head of department in 1997 as a...
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UK's poor diet costs NHS £3 billion a year
The nation's poor diet could be costing the National Health Service as much as £3 billion a year, according to research from the University of Bristol. In a report for Waitrose, Bristol's David...