Thai bank to tackle student debtors
Executives from the state-run Krung Thai Bank, which oversees Thailand's student loan programme, are recommending legal action against thousands of graduates who default on payments and squander...
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University challenge
Private tutor Mike Stein has written to education secretary Estelle Morris warning her that he intends to commit an act of civil disobedience after his complaint that British higher education...
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Crack code for entry
The University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, has hit on a novel way to attract students. It aims to strengthen its computer science department by raising the number of students with excellent...
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Prepared for the worst
The London Higher Education Consortium, a grouping of 40 university-like objects within the M25 motorway, is preparing a disaster recovery plan. The idea is that should something untoward befall an...
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Master has lot of bottle
The master of Birkbeck College, London, has a plan to raise the college's profile. Each time one of his staff features in the papers or on the airways, Tim O'Shea invites them to choose a bottle from...
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Norwich's dark arts site
Oh dear. Visitors to the Norwich School of Art and Design's website may well decide that if it's design they want, Norwich is not the place. Not only do the navigation buttons appear as black text on...
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A tale from Middle Earth
A reader points out that Frodo's story, as told in last week's diary, does not end with his departure from his native shores. In the new land, he misses being Gandalf's protégé, and the people he...
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Blair should restate his mission for universities
Nobody knows what Tony Blair meant when he made his now-famous commitment to 50 per cent participation in higher education. There is also doubt about where the percentage stood when he said it, and...
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Overpaid and toothless - fat cat v-cs must go
The amounts vice-chancellors are now being paid is outrageous - and most offensive of all is the practice of bumping up salaries in the year before retirement, thereby sticking a large bill on the...
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Money, money makes Labour's world go round
First university fees, next school and hospital fees? Tony Benn asks how much more Labour will make us pay for. One option is conspicuously lacking from the government's highly publicised review of...
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Cambridge dilutes democratic governance
Cambridge University is to beef up the powers of its vice-chancellor and water down the traditional democratic role of its community of scholars as part of major constitutional reform. "The...
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'Darling,I simply loved your buttocks'
Drama students at Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh will this month stage the world premiere of local author Irvine Welsh's first musical, writes Olga Wojtas. The publicity material...
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ILAs require watchdog
Any revamped version of the individual learning account should be monitored by a super-regulator to prevent fraud and misuse of public funds, MPs were told this week. The regulator should act like a...
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Students barred over bank error
More than a dozen students have been thrown out of Innsbruck University for paying €4 (£2.44) too little for their €410 a semester tuition fees. The students thought they had paid their fees by money...
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A cloud in blue skies
The funding of the RAE will undermine cutting-edge research, argue Harry Kroto and Tony Stace. Now that the dust has settled on the results from the 2001 research assessment exercise, it is clear...