Glittering prizes
The University of Birmingham has awarded honorary degrees to mark the 50th anniversary of its Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. It awarded them to: John Brown, professor of theatre,...
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In the news: Howard Glennerster
Howard Glennerster hit the headlines this week when he attacked the Labour government's spending record on higher education. Despite prime minister Tony Blair's electoral platform of "education,...
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On the move
Julie Grant, senior teacher in charge of staff development at the Howard School in Gillingham, Kent, has been appointed head of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers. The University of London has...
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Button those lips
What is the meaning of the string of buttons on the cover of this week's Universities UK publication, Patterns of Higher Education Institutions in the UK? Could it be a comment on the feasting...
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Sitting target
Here is a cautionary tale about the perils of online chat. The appearance of the dear, departed John Randall, former head of the Quality Assurance Agency, live on the EducationGuardian website led to...
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Heavy-duty audit
Meanwhile, Howard Glennerster, professor of social administration in the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics, has revealed the sheer weight of Teaching Quality...
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History dulls senses
Cambridge University Press is speeding up its reaction to current events. Despite the university receiving a royal charter from Henry VIII in 1534 to print and publish books, it did not produce any...
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Burundi plans for peace
Burundi has fewer university students per head than any other African country. A recent independent report, by International Alert, called the state of its education "desperate". Since independence...
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China widens access
The regulation that denies married people and over-25s the right to higher education in China is to be scrapped this year. The move is part of a drive by the ministry of education to increase the...
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Israel's open door proposal opposed
Powerful figures in Israeli higher education are opposing finance ministry proposals to throw open the first year of university to any student who passes matriculation. Under the ministry plan,...
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Toronto blazes trail in giving guarantee to graduates
The University of Toronto has become the first Canadian university to offer a guaranteed level of financial support for graduate students pursuing doctoral degrees, offering them a minimum C$12,000...
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£1 billion Russian plans will scrap entrance exams
Plans to scrap university entrance exams as part of a fundamental reform of the Russian education system are to be announced in Moscow next week. The 42 billion rouble (£1 billion) reforms will...
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Blame flies over missed £5m
College chiefs and lecturers' union leaders have blamed each other for "throwing away" a chance to take an extra £5 million in government funds for pay, enough to avoid strikes next month. The...
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Science take-up declines
A drop in the number of people taking up places to study traditional science subjects is revealed by this week's Universities and Colleges Admissions Service figures, coinciding with the launch of...
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Search starts for the funny bone
Why did the psychologist cross the road? To start an investigation into the science of humour. Richard Wiseman, senior lecturer in psychology at Hertfordshire University and reader in the public...