Over 80% vetoed blueprint
Phil Baty reveals the strength of opposition to QAA plans for teaching quality Data released by the Quality Assurance Agency reveals that it ignored universities' near-unanimous opposition to plans...
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Don's Diary
Thursday Last day of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity annual meeting in Charleston, South Carolina. Here to attend the conference but also to publicise our weight-loss...
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Principally pompous
Today's meeting of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals will reveal to members some uncomfortable truths. Focus groups, commissioned market research and meetings over recent weeks to...
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Tee, anyone?
What a good wheeze, thought the chaps at the Indiana University board of trustees. How better to make use of a bit of undeveloped university land than to build a designer golf course? Professors and...
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Brad-fjord
Anyone who thought Bradford was all about Baltis and cricket has missed something - skiing. Bradford University's expertise in winter sports has attracted a senior Norwegian researcher in snow and...
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Quiet-night animals
Who said students had no fight in them any more? What about the campaign being mounted by officers of Cardiff University student union? Those radical yoof have mounted a protest against a planning...
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In the news
The new General Teaching Council may be headed by a film-maker - Lord Puttnam - but it is Ralph Tabberer, chief executive of the Teacher Training Agency from next week, who thrives in front of an...
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On the move
Six new members have been appointed to the Further Education Funding Council as it approaches transition of responsibilities to the Learning and Skills Council. They are: Alexandra Burslem, vice-...
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Glittering prizes
Manic Street Preacher Nicky Wire has been awarded an honorary fellowship by the University of Wales, Swansea, as a "much-lauded contributor to the modern British music scene". Ravinder Maini,...
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Valuing an island's treasure
Kate Hughes talks of disquiet in Cyprus over private college degrees and the value of UK higher education The Cypriot stock market is booming and speculation is paying handsome dividends, but parents...
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Algiers
France has reopened its cultural centre in the Algerian capital, closed since 1993 because of the threat of bomb attacks by Islamic extremists who targeted French cultural and so-called...
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Beijing
The Agricultural Bank of China has agreed to fund the development of Renmin University in Beijing over the next five years. It will provide the university with 500 million yuan (Pounds 41.6 million)...
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Paris
Six unions representing French researchers called out their members this week against the policies of education minister Claude Allegre. Mr Allegre wants closer links between research institutions,...
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Videos used to halt activists
State university leaders in Belarus are helping security services to identify students at anti-government demonstrations, filmed on police videos shot at protests in Minsk and other cities. After...
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Anger in cantons as legislation gives polytechnics 'advantage'
A law that has given Switzerland's two federal polytechnics in Zurich and Lausanne more administrative autonomy has re-ignited their rivalry with the cantonal universities. Some universities complain...