Pay offer may end strike deadlock
A 25-day strike over pay by Israel's senior university lecturers could be over within days as academics weigh an offer from the finance ministry of a 4 per cent wage increase and compensation for...
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Adelaide faces bankruptcy
One of Australia's oldest universities is facing bankruptcy and is seeking a A$10 million (£3.7 million) advance from the federal government to overcome its financial crisis. Dozens of academic and...
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Germans pass career reforms
Professors in Germany will be paid according to performance after the German parliament agreed a reform of their pay and conditions of service. Between a quarter and a third of the salaries of the...
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EU still failing to promote women
Women make up only about a quarter of Europe's professors and less than one third of researchers, according to a report from Eurostat, the European Union's statistical agency. This contrasts sharply...
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Toxic cocktail is identified
Scientists hunting for gender-bending chemicals thought to be responsible for feminising fish, rising breast cancer incidence and falling sperm counts may have missed the wood for the trees. Research...
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Celts quaffed English rosé
Solid evidence of the Romans' bid to turn beer-swilling Britons into urbane, wine-quaffing citizens has been unearthed by archaeologists. A vast complex of vineyards in the Nene Valley in...
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TV groups invest in Welsh film school
The International Film School Wales at the University of Wales College, Newport, has secured two years of core funding from HTV, the BBC and S4C. Among the projects to benefit will be a short course...
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Wales delivers live lessons via video net
Further education colleges and higher education institutions in Wales are being linked in an integrated national video network funded by Education and Learning Wales and the European Regional...
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Glittering prizes
David Atkinson , director of academic affairs at the Scottish Agricultural College, has been awarded a British Crop Protection Council medal. The Society for General Microbiology has awarded the...
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On the move
Peter Briggs , chief executive of the British Association, has been appointed pro-rector of the University of Surrey, Roehampton . The University of Wales, Cardiff , has appointed: Adrian Phillips ,...
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In the news
The increasingly intimate love-in between 10 Downing Street and BP chief executive John Browne will be watched with anxious interest by vice-chancellors. Suggestions this week that Lord Browne,...
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Who's watching whom?
The Diary detects a certain amount of schadenfreude among staff at City University. The recent fire has forced certain senior members of staff to share an open-plan office - vice-chancellor David...
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Osama's bin'ad
Is there a spark of wry scientific humour beneath the al-Qaeda turban? Documents recovered from the terrorist organisation's abandoned Kabul offices seemed to reveal plans to build a thermonuclear...
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A wider look at Leeds
Leeds Metropolitan University must be licking its wounds. Higher education minister Margaret Hodge this week wrote an article in The Yorkshire Post about how wonderful Leeds is at increasing access,...
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E for exit-strategy?
Herbert Van de Sompel has quit as director of e-strategy and programmes at the British Library 11 weeks after taking up the job. Dr Van de Sompel, who spent nearly two decades as head of library...