Don's Diary
Friday Don hat and gown for the Honorary graduates graduation ceremony at Middlesbrough town hall. Sit on stage with our honoured guests, governors, and directors of the university. Give the citation...
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The THES Diary
Lawless students Use it or lose it. The Law Commissioners have been busy spring cleaning the statute books - to clear laws no longer considered relevant. But students will be dismayed to discover...
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In the news
Lord Plant of Highfield, who is resigning as master of St Catherine's College to spend more time with his peerage, has claimed he would be terrible at being a minister. He says he lacks the day-to-...
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Glittering prizes
The Institute of Physics has awarded the Glazebrook medal to Christopher Llewellyn Smith, director general of Cern; the Guthrie medal to George Bacon, emeritus professor of physics at the University...
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On the move
Roderick Floud, 56, provost of London Guildhall University, has been elected as a vice-chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals. He will be one of three vice-chairmen, with Sir...
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When the Table is turned
Michael Austin looks at the difficulty South Africans face in overhauling a white-based college system Table Mountain, along with the Kruger National Park and game reserve, is one of the most visited...
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Kuala Lumpur
Former University of Chicago Islamic sciences lecturer Munawar Ahmad Anees, who was an aide and speech-writer to former Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, said he lied about having sex...
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Beijing
Wang Youcai, a student leader of the 1989 democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, is to be tried for subversion next week. Wang has already served two years in prison. He announced the formation of...
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Birzeit
Thirty-five Birzeit University students this week began a hunger strike in solidarity with 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. They erected two tents in the university in which the hunger...
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Colleges step up pressure over pay
Australia's universities will face widespread disruption next year as the main staff union presses ahead with its campaign for a 19 per cent pay rise, writes Geoff Maslen. Vice-chancellors believe...
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Points of reference
The letter ("Make selection fairer", THES, 20 November) demanding that all applications for academic jobs be accompanied by full references at the time of applying is calling for a waste of time. The...
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Rash of suicides upsets school
ROME The European University Institute, the prestigious postgraduate school housed in a 15th-century ex-monastery on a hill outside Florence and financed by the European Union nations, is launching a...
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Software glue holds cool key to future
As rival smartcard technologies prepare to lock horns in the struggle for a lucrative academic market, Laurie Burbridge celebrates the potential diversity and flexibility such systems offer while...
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Oxford's best
The Wilfred Owen war poetry archive, subject of a THES feature (November 6) has won the University of Oxford's 1998 OxTALENT competition for electronic teaching. The Humanities Computing Unit nets a...
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Northern nous
Northern Colleges Network, a commercial body representing 16 further education colleges in the North East of England is launching a net-based learning system to deliver courses via the internet to...