Business of false budgets
Double-entry book-keeping has a special meaning at Copenhagen's School of Economics and Business Administration. The school has knowingly presented false budgets to the ministry of education to...
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Credit linked grants rejected
German student groups have called on the newly elected Federal Parliament to address a "long overdue increase in student grants as quickly as possible". Suggestions that students could be taken off...
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Namibia budget boost
Vice chancellor Peter Katjavivi hopes an increased budget will end the still rumbling dispute at the University of Namibia which led to a student march to the home of President Sam Nujoma last May....
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School for homeless attracts top brains
Academics, homeless people and grassroots militants are holding the inaugural session of a "University against Exclusion" this weekend in premises taken over by a Parisian homeless action group last...
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Mission impossible begs big answers
Survival is not guaranteed in the college sector any more. There are known to have been at-risk lists in higher education for well over a decade. Indeed last week the Public Accounts Committee was...
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Small is perfect for expertise
Should research funding be confined to a few large universities? A number of vice chancellors believe so. Derek Roberts, the provost of University College, says that the number of designated research...
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Missing variations on a funding theme with a bitter twist of experience
It was characteristically generous of Peter Knight (THES, January 13) to acknowledge, as we have been reassuring him for three years, that the Higher Education Funding Council for England's funding...
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Beauty and beast
(Photograph) - Beauty and beast: Aberdeen University is to create a database of mediaeval images from the Aberdeen Bestiary, an illuminated manuscript dating from around 1200, supported by a Pounds...
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Me old, old china
The sort of academic who forces us to question our very origins has struck again, this time at the root of the North Staffordshire pottery industry. Rodney Hampson, research fellow at Keele...
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Three-sided view
"Reading in Triangles" is the title of an inaugural lecture next week at the university of the same name next week. But before readers ask how many are eternal, they should know that Naomi Segal,...
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Row over College of Law tie
The Law Society is taking a fresh look at its links with the College of Law in London after an academic threatened to complain about their "special relationship" to the Office of Fair Trading. Law...
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Slippery soap
The Association for Colleges recently came up with the idea of using soap operas to sell the idea of lifetime education. Antithesis is looking for prime time titles: Dundee University has already...
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Scared but rich
Coming soon to Regent's College, an international conference on paranoia and persecution with speakers including Norman Stone. Registration is Pounds 150 -- or Pounds 300 if you want a ticket for the...
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Winning wine
Be honest. How many of you even knew that Canada produces wine? There will certainly be no excuse for students at Edinburgh's Centre for Canadian Studies and the city's Queen Margaret College who...
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Warwick joins fellowship elite
Oxbridge students have long spoken about the college-based postdoctoral step of the academic ladder in exclusive, knowing terms. It is not a junior research fellowship but a "JRF". Soon, however,...