Calls to scrap wasteful bidding
A university's mission should determine how much public money it receives, according to a report published today. The report, commissioned jointly by the Standing Conference of Principals and the...
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Graduate market is booming
Job prospects continue to look bright for graduates, with the number of graduate vacancies expected to rise more than 14 per cent in the coming year, according to a national survey. The greatest...
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Greenwich and Kent discuss harmonious Medway merger
The universities of Greenwich and Kent are considering plans to merge their Medway campuses and run them jointly. Greenwich is to stop teaching at its Woolwich campus in 2002, moving students to its...
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'Unwieldy' DTI under attack
A new Science and Innovation Agency should replace the Office of Science and Technology, according to a report published this week. Independent think-tank Demos has called for a restructuring of the...
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Chief tries to win over protesters
The chancellor and vice-chancellor of the Athens Technological University, who resigned last month in protest at the upgrading of the country's technological institutes to university status, have...
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French upset that English is en vogue
Although legal sanctions exist to safeguard the purity of French, the country's academic community is increasingly turning to English. Every year, the Délégation Générale à la Langue Française...
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Pristina thanks EU for its revival
Work on a €4.5 million (£2.7 million) European Union-funded project to improve facilities at the University of Pristina in Kosovo has been completed, as the institution reverts to normality after...
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Rebel state to spark battle for students
Germany's system for allocation of university places could collapse following the withdrawal of one of the country's most powerful states. Baden-Württemberg has decided to terminate its contract with...
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First lady backs Brazil's literacy bid
Brazilian universities are the linchpin in a radical project to cut illiteracy in South America's largest country, its first lady, Ruth Cardoso, told a London audience last month. Dr Cardoso, an...
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Oz gets tough on study visa
Following a huge increase in the number of foreign students seeking to enrol in Australian education institutions, the federal government last week adopted tighter visa regulations. During the past...
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The Nobel and the not nearly so Nobel
As 250 living Nobel laureates prepare to celebrate the centenary of the prize, Joseph Rotblat looks at key omissions in its controversial history. This year, the first of the third millennium, is the...
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The power of a sport to charm a prostitute's son and make playing nations blind to colour
The Picador Book of Cricket - Cricket and Race
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Dolly, Polly and boys from Brazil
When Dolly the sheep was born, journalists from around the world focused their attention on her and two human researchers from the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh in Scotland. Dolly was the first...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work that concerns two women writers and a dog: "It is universally admitted that the family from...
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Giving us an earthly chance
The Ingenuity Gap