Bloomsbury grouping set fair for millennium
The British Museum has edged closer to its cherished aim of housing its collections in one location after receiving Pounds 8.1 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Elaine Williams reports. The...
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Asia-Pacific push
Nottingham Trent University has created a Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies to develop research, teaching, community and commercial links with the region. NTU has franchised degree courses in Malaysia...
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Loans change
Ken Young, chairman of the Students Loans Company, is to leave in July after four years. Colin Ward was recently promoted to chief executive.
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It probably won't be you
Mathematician Ian Stewart explains why the National Lottery will almost certainly be won by somebody else. As a mathematician I have an ambivalent attitude towards that instant British institution,...
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Commonwealth trips on red tape
Whenever I meet fellow Commonwealth vice chancellors, as happened recently at the Association of Commonwealth Universities conference in Malta, I feel humbled by the severity of the problems faced by...
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Wise incomprehension
Colin McGinn (THES, April 5) believes that "the only way to avoid being checkmated by consciousness is to assume you do not understand it". He means: what is not understood is that, although we all...
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Labour group deserts student interests
National Union of Students president Jim Murphy has done his utmost to undermine the NUS policy of free education policy over the past year. And at the annual conference in Blackpool last week, he...
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Universities for what?
The few clues as to how Sir Ron Dearing expects his forthcoming review of UK higher education to shape up include strong indications that he will be looking to see what contribution new technologies...
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The battle for quality
If news of plans emerging from the joint planning group for Britain's new higher education quality agency are correct - and if wiser counsels do not prevail before they are finalised - a hard-won...
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Universities feed religious divide
The Lebanese government, under pressure from powerful religious lobbies, is licensing six new universities, three of them directly run by religious organisations. The decision has led to fierce...
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Kabul campus countdown
It is springtime in Afghanistan where Kabul University has been de-mined and is ready to open. Christine Aziz reports There is very little left of Kabul University. Destroyed and mutilated buildings...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Here I am in berserkly Berkeley. After two sabbatical months, I can find my way around at least geographically. My office in the Center for Studies in Higher Education is at the heart of the...
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Greens help consumers beat the meat habit
Slowly but surely Britain is becoming a nation of vegetarians. According to a new study from the University of Manchester, the greatest decline in meat buying has been among women, who were the...
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Pan pipes
(Photograph) - An orchestral composition called "Scenes from a Glasgow Kitchen" involving frying pans and other kitchen utensils was premiered by the University of Plymouth Orchestra last month. The...