Australian universities set for audit
A new round of Australian university audits has begun with ten institutions to be audited this year. Over the next five years, every university and the government higher education department will be...
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McGill bids to draw UK students
Montreal's attractions as a bicultural, inexpensive and cosmopolitan city have given McGill University a significant competitive advantage in the campaign to recruit international students. The...
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US grade rise 'unjustified'
Grade inflation is diluting the effectiveness of American higher education, according to a report that has heightened a debate about whether universities are coddling their students. The report, by...
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Kenya plans to tap own market
The Kenyan government is so concerned about the number of students being recruited by foreign universities that it is to hold an education fair to market the courses offered in the country's own...
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In the news: Jonathon Moyo
Jonathan Moyo, Robert Mugabe's controversial information minister, is the man behind the difficulties faced by the international media covering this week's chaotic presidential elections in Zimbabwe...
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Don's Diary: Seeking Hampton Court's Roots
Christmas 2000, Tuesday Daydreaming in the bath, I begin to wonder if there might be traces of an original design for Cardinal Wolsey's Hampton Court of c.1515 within the 200 years of additions that...
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A very public address
Stephen White, director of information at the British Psychological Society, is a keen member of the online science communication mailing list pcsi.com. So keen on passing on information is he that,...
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Amino royale
Princess Anne will be clearing the royal mantelpiece to make room for a gift from Edinburgh University this week. She opened its £8 million biomolecular research centre, which brings together a...
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Norwegians would
Prince Haakon and Princess Mette-Marit of Norway - Europe's most unconventional royal couple - will move to the United Kingdom in the autumn to study. The prince will do a masters degree in...
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Frisk your laptop, sir?
Belarus has tightened its controls on the export of information so that anyone wishing to take a laptop computer out of the country has to deliver it to customs for checking 24 hours before departure...
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Aerodynamic leader
St Catherine's College, Oxford, has appointed an aerodynamics expert as its new head after the sudden departure of Sir Peter Williams. Roger Ainsworth, deputy head of the university's engineering...
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Skill raiser
Congratulations to Christopher Duff, who has been appointed chief executive of the Sector Skills Development Agency, the new UK-wide body to oversee the government's drive to raise skills and...
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Vote yes or no. Or both
Students at Imperial College, London, this week held a referendum on joining the National Union of Students. The student newspaper carried two full-page adverts, one supporting and one opposing the...
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Dirty shots in the dark
Unsterile injections, which may have led to the emergence of Aids, show the risks of using new, poorly understood technologies inmedicine, argues Ernest Drucker. Darwin taught us that although...
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Healthy diet? Eat your words
Marion Nestle and Chris Bunting open a four-page special on food and the future with a look at the power of the US and UK food industries. Each week, the average Briton gulps down about two litres of...