The season to be brutal
They are a canny lot in Leeds Metropolitan University's publicity department - and refreshingly modest about the kind of things going on in their institution. Their latest newsletter carried a plea...
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Not really on the ball
Football mania swept the government's press briefing last week on the scheme to boost the pay of top researchers. Bob May, the chief scientific adviser, kicked off with a remark about recruiting the...
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Got it dot.covered
Thinking of setting up an OxfordUniversity.com website? Think again. The university has a tough new strategy to protect its name and logo and has been buying up Top Level Domain codes, including .edu...
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World watch
Prisoners in Tuscany who are enrolled on a degree course can seek a transfer to a new "university" section at the Prato prison just outside Florence. There they will have single cells, and lecturers...
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World watch
Banks have agreed to keep running the federal student loan programme for seven more months after the Canadian government asked for more time to transfer the scheme to a private company. The...
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Devilishly talented
Take a second look at the portrait of higher education minister Tessa Blackstone hanging in the council rooms of Birkbeck College, London, where she was formerly master. Artist Peter Edwards has...
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Don's Diary
Friday The aircraft door opens and the heat hits you - welcome to Antigua. Time is tight and I worry that I will not get through passport control in time to board the helicopter to my final...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Bradford has awarded honorary degrees to: Richard Gregory, managing director of Yorkshire Television (DLitt); Geoffrey Richmond, chairman of Bradford City FC (DLitt); Pam Liversidge...
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School speakers
Universities are usually delighted to provide speakers at school events (Letters, THES, July 21), and Schools and Colleges Liaison staff try to give students the best possible advice. Schools should...
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Arms and peace
What is unethical about arms production and trade? According to the Campaign against Arms Trade, Manchester University is doing something wrong by holding shares in BAE Systems ("College pension...
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In the news
Few will find themselves more closely involved in the changes envisaged by the new National Health Service plan than Graeme Catto when he leaves his present post as vice-principal of Aberdeen...
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On the move
Christopher Peel, chief scientist for the mechanical sciences sector of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency in Farnborough and a leading researcher into air safety, has been appointed to a...
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Children of the revolution
Iran's young are hungry for change - and they know that education is the key to transforming the Islamic republic, writes Desmond McLernon The 21-year-old Islamic Republic of Iran has had a turbulent...
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Eyewitness
More than 30 years ago, 2,000 people from the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia were shipped out to make way for a giant United States airbase. Now they want to return - at least to the...
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World watch
Morocco's minister of home affairs ordered 500 students from Niger protesting against the non-payment of seven months' arrears of bursaries and scholarships to end their occupation of their country's...