Don's diary: paddling in paradise
Saturday Having recently completed a Winston Churchill Fellowship, which involved travelling around the Pacific Rim researching the possibilities of including disabled people in Outrigger canoe...
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End of an unreal dream
A complaint from a woman featured in an advertising campaign for the New York lottery has forced the DDB Worldwide advertising agency to alter 58 billboards, The Wall Street Journal reported last...
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The obscure welcomed
The hunt for the world's least-read journal continues. Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research and co-sponsor with The THES of the search, reports that many people have sent him...
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Bollywood at Brunel
Anxious to inform, The Diary this week brings you three things you never knew about Brunel University. It was the film setting for Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange . It has been used in a number...
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Name man for the chop
The Diary is appealing to readers for help in identifying the man on the far right of the picture below. The Oxford Trust circulated it to journalists last week to mark the Oxfordshire Investment...
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Critical ignoramass
A reader has alerted The Diary to the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. This new element has been tentatively named "Administratium". Administratium has one neutron, 12...
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Tortured tutors
Are you an academic who has encountered unacceptable student conduct? If so, Deborah Lee of the University of Derby would like to hear from you. She has won funding from the Nuffield Foundation to...
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Grant rage
A physics professor at Louisiana Tech University has been charged with attempted second-degree murder after hitting a colleague over the head with a hammer, a police spokesman told Associated Press...
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Institutional diversity is a chimera best put away
Roger King believes that support for innovation is key to making universities more competitive Ministers have called on universities to find ways of enhancing the differences between institutions....
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Critic of Aids programme rejected as Natal vice-chancellor
South African scientist Malegapuru Makgoba, a critic of his government's stance on HIV-Aids, has been rejected as vice-chancellor of the University of Natal. A university selection committee sought...
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Tight purse could impede mergers
Higher education funding chiefs have warned that Welsh Assembly plans to keep a tight rein on university finances could stall future mergers. The assembly's reorganisation of higher education would...
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NUS reins regained by Labour
Mandy Telford was elected president of the National Union of Students this week, the fifth woman to win the post in the union's 80-year history. As the government review of student funding enters its...
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Extra money, but...
The government is set to spend more of national income on education, with universities and colleges likely to share the spoils, chancellor Gordon Brown announced in the budget. Mr Brown reassured the...
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Tighter control on exchanges
Lax controls over Europe's flagship international student exchange programme have allowed some universities to overestimate student demand for grants, according to the European Union's Court of...
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Event looks at e-learning curve
Creating a welcoming learning community is vital to students' success online, delegates at next week's e-learning conference in Manchester will hear, writes Alison Goddard. Students work well in...