Is the answer a Midwestern model?
Some see the University of Wisconsin system as a template for UK higher education. Alison Utley reports that Manchester is looking at the system, which Philip Fine describes below. The vice-...
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Whistleblowers: Middlesex settles claim
Senior managers at Middlesex University knew the outcome of a staff grievance claim months before the hearings were complete, The THES has learned. Their decision to throw out a bullying claim by...
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Glittering prizes
Arthur Peacocke , a physical biochemist at the University of Oxford and an Anglican priest, has been awarded the £700,000 Templeton prize for progress in religion. The University of Dundee will award...
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Don's Diary
Monday 08.30, Natural History Museum: 22 million specimens, 30 curators. Unlock scaffold bridge connecting old and new buildings, check atrium lift is operational - a glass panoramic thing protected...
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Sit still and behave
Staff at Birkbeck College, London, were warned to behave nicely at last weekend's graduation ceremony. A missive from Josie Charleton, director of external relations, recommended staff "find a...
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Outbreak hits students
With all the misery faced by farmers over the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, spare a thought for students at the Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education. The foot-and-mouth...
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Mob's mixed message
Varsity , the University of Cambridge's student newspaper, has clarified its report of the national shutdown day two weeks ago. It had said that protesters were chanting "let's go beat up the Germans...
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Not shaken by quake
A survey of the recent Seattle earthquake by United States journal Annals of Improbable Research produced a response from Angela Close, an archaeologist at the University of Washington, who was...
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On the move
The University of Sheffield has appointed to its committee of university chairmen: Ron Haylock , chairman of council at the University of Nottingham and chairman of the committee; Karen Morgan ,...
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In the news: Lawrence Summers
Harvard University's next president, Lawrence Summers, is characterised by friends as driven and energetic. Even his tennis game, they say, is aggressive. The nephew of two Nobel prize winners in...
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Eyewitness
Language use and teaching in the countries of the former Soviet Union and its satellites are politically charged. "Educators worldwide believe in the importance of the native language for concept...
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Foreigners need not apply
Lioba Simon-Schuhmacher is disturbed by Spain's unwelcoming attitude towards foreign academics. Spaniards with degrees obtained in their home country are to be found teaching at almost every European...
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World watch
Oslo Norwegian minister of education and research Trond Giske has tabled a bill to set up 14 universities and university colleges, bringing the total to 18. Applications for university status are...
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Iraq pleads for help to rebuild universities
An Iraqi education official has made his first visit to the United Kingdom since the Gulf war to press to re-establish academic relations between the two countries. Mazin al Jumah, president of the...
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India offers overseas study loan
India's offer of bank loans for students who study overseas is likely to increase the scramble among the middle classes for a foreign degree, according to the country's communists. Finance minister...