Mandela scholars come to Britain
David Jobbins reports on the South African connection in the second part of a survey on global student mobility Last September, ten South African students arrived in Britain on the first Nelson...
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Union asks for fairer research funding
Lecturers' union Natfhe is pressing for a "fairer" share of research funding for new universities. In a meeting with science minister Lord Sainsbury this week Natfhe said teaching quality could be...
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'Hybrid' model to raise millions
Aberdeen University has launched an ambitious fund-raising campaign to bring in Pounds 150 million in ten years. The "Sixth Century Campaign" has already won pledges of some Pounds 12 million towards...
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Cash boost to widen access
Scottish higher education institutions have won a 3 per cent cash increase for teaching and a 1.5 per cent cash increase for formula grant research in the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's...
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Don's diary
Friday: East Jerusalem Wake disoriented, but recall I am due on a week's trip to Israel/Palestine to carry out fieldwork near Bethlehem and give a paper at the annual conference of the Israeli...
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On the move
John Hogan, 37, academic registrar at the University of Durham has been appointed Durham's registrar and secretary from August 1. He succeeds John Hayward, who has been appointed provost of the...
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Let me not answer that
Every good civil servant knows there is always a way of avoiding a direct answer to a direct question, and when this principle is put into practice it doesn't matter much what the question is....
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Correction
Stephen Holt, rector of the Roehampton Institute, who is leaving in September, has been in the post since 1988 and not 1998 as stated in The THES.
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Beijing
China's college entrance exam system is to be made "more democratic and flexible", with a greater emphasis on developing creativity. The education ministry said it will soon start collecting...
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Rome
A group of architecture professors has launched an appeal against plans to rebuild the protective structure over Emperor Augustus's Altar of Peace in Rome. The project, called "the petrol pump"...
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Correction
Jill Macleod Clark, professor of nursing at King's College London, has been appointed deputy dean of the faculty of medicine, health and biological sciences, professor and head of the school of...
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In the news
Tim Brighouse is not a nutter. He won a rumoured Pounds 90,000 in an out-of-court settlement from former education secretary John Patten to prove it. And the present government clearly thinks he has...
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Glittering prizes
The University of the West of England has awarded honorary doctorates of engineering to John Taylor, director-general of research councils in the Department of Trade and Industry's Office of Science...
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Moscow
Russia may end relations between its leading nuclear research institutes and Iran in return for a lifting of United States sanctions imposed last month, nuclear power minister Yevgeni Adamov said...
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Athens
More than 12,000 extra students will be admitted to Greek universities and higher education colleges in September, bringing the total to 74,000, a rise of 18.8 per cent. The plan is for a student...