On the move
Clare Broom has taken up the post of pro vice-chancellor for planning and development at the University of Plymouth . Geraldine van Bueren , professor of international human rights law at Queen Mary...
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Glittering prizes
Dartington College of Arts will confer honorary awards on: artist Ewart Johns ; John Bull , vice-chancellor of the University of Plymouth; Marcus Davey , chief executive of the Roundhouse; Rose...
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In the news: Bacillus anthracis
The microbe of the moment, Bacillus anthracis , is an effective killer and a born survivor. Its toxin is notoriously swift and usually deadly. Symptoms appear within days and, if breathed in, it is...
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Minister to dumb down
Education secretary Estelle Morris this week conceded that the plethora of hardship funds, childcare grants and funds-for-students-called-Grant has become unmanageable. In her first higher education...
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LSE old boy puts boot in
It is not really done to foul your own nest, but maybe Ralf Dahrendorf felt - he was abroad and speaking German - he could get away with it. Last week, during a presentation on 100 years of social...
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Conscientious elector
Paul Marsden, the Labour MP in the firing line for opposing the bombing of Afghanistan, may have dropped out of higher education but the experience seems to have done him no harm. Mr Marsden studied...
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Dark side answers call
Pity poor Owen Davies, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Hertfordshire. After advertising on his website that he "would be happy to hear from anyone interested in the academic study...
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City's publicity blitz
The fire that destroyed a third of City University's century-old campus in May this year also ravaged the university's reputation. "Fire destroys City University" trumpeted reports around the globe....
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Good selling pints
Good news for Lancashire - the 2002 Good Pub Guide has found that it offers the cheapest beer in the land. Beer costs an average £1.68 in Lancashire, 24p below the national average. At the University...
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No time for pleasantries
The staff at the Institute for Learning and Teaching are a friendly lot - if a bit misguided. The institute's publications officer recently contacted more than 550 people on its mailing list,...
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The world did not change
Lessons that might have been learnt from September 11 have been lost on the US, writes Tom Palaima
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Don's Diary
Week one I fly to Dublin for the annual Political Marketing Conference of the Academy of Marketing at the Dublin City University Business School. We find out that the Californian referendum business...
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Eyewitness
As part of the process of European Union accession, the Slovak Roma's stake in European society is being reinforced by non-governmental agencies that want them to play a more central role in Slovakia...
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Flexible friend for when time is not on our side
When we set up the Advisory Centre for Education in a room in a Cambridge backstreet, I was naive enough to think that Cambridge University would be happy to foster the world's first Open University...
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Why I... think the bombing should stop and the talking should commence
I have met the man who helped open the latest tragic chapter in Afghanistan's history. Osama bin Laden used to come to my office in Peshawar in the late 1980s to ask me if I could help him import...