New scale please
The four-point scale for quality assessment in Scotland should be replaced by an overall judgement of "quality approved" or "quality not approved," a review group of the Scottish Higher Education...
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Stitched up
(Photograph) - Secretary of state for Scotland Michael Forsyth at the Scottish College of Textiles' new library with a woven portrait of himself made using the college's Scotweave computer program.
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Reverend slips up on clerical errors
A Durham University college principal whose work permit application contained misleading information will be allowed to stay in this country. But investigations are continuing over how the...
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Don's Diary
Saturday The entire team has arrived now. Very odd for a Scot who has lived most of his adult life among the English to be surrounded in this distant Bedouin village in Jordan by so many unrestrained...
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Spin doctorates?
Universities are fast becoming training grounds for DJs. There may not be any university courses that teach students how to DJ, but there is a well-trodden path from standing in a student bar putting...
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The guru in the quad
John Kay is stepping down as chairman of consultancy London Economics and stepping into controversy as director of Oxford's school of management studies. Romesh Vaitilingam reports on the Tony Blair...
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As blue as her blood
Simon Targett meets historian and royal biographer Ben Pimlott, who reveals that, despite recent reports claiming that the Queen is a 'bit of a leftie', our monarch is in fact more of a pre-Thatcher...
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Federal farewell
Britain should preserve its free trade status in Europe but cut loose from the tentacles of political union, argues Patrick Minford. John Major went to war with Europe over our cows. With him marched...
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Rebirth of the native
American Indian Greg Sarris tells Tim Cornwell how he escaped glue-sniffing gang land to become a professor, novelist and screenwriter. The literary figure Greg Sarris most admires is William Blake...
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The x and y generation
Mathematics is increasingly being used to unravel the relentless complexity of the natural world, including the way animals behave (bottom). Graham Lawton reports How does a tumour grow? How do...
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Why leaping gazelles are too game for dinner
Mathematics is increasingly being used to unravel the relentless complexity of the natural world, including the way animals behave (bottom). Graham Lawton reports The mathematical exploration of...
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Stand up and be quoted
How should academics deal with the press? Take it on the chin, Ronald Amann tells media-shy social science researchers, or you're not doing your job properly. In order to carry out their projects at...
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V-cs wary of central control
Vice chancellors fear that the creation of a single qualifications authority, heralded in this week's Queen's Speech, could give ministers the power to approve some higher education awards. Plans to...
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Evidence links BSE to humans
Researchers at Imperial College, London this week revealed the first direct evidence appearing to show that mad cows disease has been transmitted to humans. The study, carried out by a team led by...
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TIGER says missing sink is to be found in forests
Scientists appear to have solved the mystery of where huge quantities of man-made carbon dioxide are ending up after being pumped into the atmosphere, writes Kam Patel. Tropical forests were declared...