Don's Diary
Thursday The conference season has begun with a vengeance. Having recovered from the International Marketing and Purchasing Conference at University College, Dublin, I am invited to attend the...
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Teesside just not sexy
Forget all those other league tables: make way for the Red Mole alternative ratings, based on the votes of more than 7,000 students from across the country. Top of the heap is Dundee, owing to the...
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On the move
Mike Spyer, former director of the Autonomic Neuroscience Institute and dean of the Royal Free Campus and University College Medical School, has been appointed principal and dean of the newly merged...
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Glittering Prizes
Goldsmiths College has awarded honorary DLits of the University of London to Harold Pinter, writer, poet, director and political activist, and Neil MacGregor, director of the National Gallery....
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Eyewitness
For years the world's poorest countries have paid more to service their international debts than they receive in overseas aid. But this week's revamp of the three-year-old Highly Indebted Poor...
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A place in the global village
Brenda Gourley argues that the communications revolution offers the chance to share ethics and morals Internationalising a university is a beneficial process to which South African universities...
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Valladolid
Jose Manuel Aroca, professor of algebra and geometry at Spain's Valladolid University, has received a six-month prison sentence and been suspended for a further six months for manipulating entrance...
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Pristina
The statue of Dositej Obradovic (1742-1822), the Serbian writer and philosopher, has been pulled down from outside the rector's office at Pristina University. Obradovic was one of the founders of...
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Kingston, Ontario
A study of Canadian census data puts the earning power of university graduates higher than graduates of vocational and other colleges. After several years' experience, postgraduates earn 50 per cent...
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Black v-c quits SA for World Bank job
Mamphela Ramphela, the first black vice-chancellor of a formerly white South African university, has quit her job at the University of Cape Town to become a managing director of the World Bank. The...
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Cash-strapped campus to open its doors to men
From October, the Jordanian University for Women will change its name to the University of Petra and start to accept male students in a bid to raise funds. The decision to change the private...
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Digital dozen
Companies wanting to employ a student, rent a laboratory or get a product designed can tap into the resources of 12 universities and colleges in the West Midlands through a new website,Contact to...
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Women - don't buy this line
Performance- related pay is bad for women - it will not promote equality, argues Natalie Fenton. Women are paid less than men in virtually every grade in every academic post - this is one of the most...
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Harvard ponders animal rights
Harvard Law School will offer a course in animal rights law next semester for the first time in its 182-year history to deal with the increasing number of issues relating to subjects such as...
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Oz tax reforms signal research boost for academia
High-tech start-ups originating in universities may benefit from a sweeping reform of the Australian tax system. The Australian government's decision to scrap capital gains tax for Australian and...