E-'s full of ideas
Among the line-up of speakers at last week's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council annual conference were Gloria Laycock, director of the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at...
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'Outed' candidate fails
Congratulations to Roland Jackson, who has been appointed chief executive of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and commiserations to Jill Nelson, who has not. Dr Jackson, acting...
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Laissez-faire lecturers
The announcement last week of the discovery of the heaviest element, "Administratium", has touched a nerve. An administrator has news of a new economic theory, "Nonpareilism", that describes...
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Oxford firsts
Welcome to William Dutton, professor at the University of Southern California, who will become the first director of the Oxford Internet Institute in July and the University of Oxford's first...
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Nasa's name shame
The Diary has received a new entry for the most painfully contrived acronym competition. The American space agency Nasa has announced plans to launch a Mercury orbiter called MESSENGER in March 2004...
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Autonomy can be just a 'shifted dependency'
As the state relinquishes its grip on universities, other interests are vying for control, warns Ulrike Felt. University reform across Europe is taking place with different degrees of radicalism. In...
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Don't get too cosy...
Forget the warm words, Tony Blair is 'Tory-lite', say Richard Roberts and David Kynaston. "Budgets, like babies, are always little loves when they are first born," Anthony Trollope once remarked....
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Equality requires commitment
Higher education lacks the necessary structures to address pay inequality, argues Malcolm Keight. English higher education institutions have been asked by the Higher Education Funding Council to...
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Why I... believe diasporan Jews find it hard to criticise Israel when anti-Semitism is rife
I am a white, Jewish, feminist, English woman, of working-class background, who has just had her 50th birthday. There are aspects of this identity - religion, social class, gender, age - that have...
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Graduate jobless rate falls
The number of graduates with first degrees who were unemployed six months after graduation fell by almost 40 per cent, from 12,510 to 7,680, between 1995 and 2000, according to figures released by...
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Adelaide
New Zealand biologist James McWha, vice-chancellor of Massey University, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Adelaide. Cambridge University's Roger Dean has taken over as vice-...
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MPs signal radical RAE overhaul
The research assessment exercise has had its day, says a hard-hitting report from an influential group of MPs. The Higher Education Funding Council for England must go back to the drawing board in...
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Next week
News Further more? Is further education fit to take more higher education? Features 'I keep telling myself that I survived torture, I survived jail, that I can survive this...' The struggle of...
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Vitória
The Brazilian state of Esp!rito Santo is to allow school dropouts from 14 years of age or older to enrol at university provided they pass a supplementary test and regular entrance examinations.
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Shooting stars
Congratulations to the Bristol astrophysicists who won this year's National Astronomy Meeting five-a-side football tournament. The winning team beat finalists Leicester to wrest the trophy from...