Graduates starting lower on job ladder
The graduate labour market is becoming more diverse and fragmented, with traditional notions of the "graduate job" becoming increasingly unrealistic. The annual graduate review for 2000 of the...
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Labour lean on v-cs
Government has given universities one more year to demonstrate their graduate employment rates. But vice-chancellors are disappointed that the indicator will still be based on the first destination...
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Fighting malaria
(Photograph) - Experts at Liverpool's School of Tropical Medicine are liaising with emergency services in Mozambique to predict outbreaks of disease following the floods. Using satellite weather...
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World Bank enlists HE to narrow poverty gap
A decisive shift in priorities from basic to higher education for the world's poorest nations is foreshadowed in an independent report published this week with the effective endorsement of the World...
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'Male club' spoils sexual chemistry for women
A "male club" mentality in many university chemistry departments is one factor preventing women pursuing academic careers, according to a report published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The...
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Top-up hats
Baroness Warwick continues to show little strain under the task of wearing two hats - those of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals chief executive and of working Labour peer. Responding...
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Papal pecking order
As part of its Jubilee 2000 celebrations, the Vatican is planning a special day for university teachers in September. But academics in search of papal guidance find themselves close to the end of the...
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Bright sparks on air
How many students does it take to change a light bulb? The new answer is three - plus a television crew. Teams of three students from the University of Hertfordshire and Oxford University have been...
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Soft soap at NUS
The National Union of Students is also thrilled to be on the box, thanks to teen and twentysomething soap Hollyoaks. The series, renowed for its glamorous and immaculately turned-out cast, features a...
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In the news
For Oxford don Sir John Krebs, the government's new food czar and chair of a high-profile conference this week on GM food, the transition from an academic institution into government has been smooth...
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Beirut
University students in Beirut have protested against the bombing of Lebanon by Israeli planes. Protests took place in front of the United States embassy, forcing African students in the city to seek...
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On the move
Sir Robert May, chief scientific adviser to the government, has been nominated for the office of president of the Royal Society by the Royal Society's council. If successful in April's election, he...
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Vaneeta-marie D'Andrea
Correction: Vaneeta-marie D'Andrea, director of educational development at the University of Surrey, Roehampton, has been selected as a Carnegie scholar of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of...
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Eyewitness
Three Jewish and three Catholic scholars have begun examining 11 volumes of Vatican documents from World War II to assess the role of Pius XII and the Holy See during the Holocaust. Although they are...
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Letting tigers off the leash
Singapore wants 'thinking schools' for a 'learning nation', but it won't set education free, says Tony Tysome Singapore's name belies a split personality: derived from the Sanskrit Singa pura, it...