Edinburgh fire ruins valuable AI archive
Edinburgh University's School of Informatics is appealing to the world to help it recreate its artificial intelligence archive, lost in the fire that devastated the city's Old Town last weekend. The...
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Italy's rectors resign en masse over 2003 budget cuts
The rectors of Italy's 70 state universities resigned en masse this week in protest at cuts in higher education in the 2003 budget. In an unprecedented gesture, they handed back their mandates as...
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Music schools call for a change of tune
Music professors and conservatoire heads are still contesting their "astonishing" research grades a year after the results were published. The conservatoires believe that assessors took more notice...
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Teaching and salaries push back growth
The government is poised to postpone the bulk of its higher education expansion until the end of the decade, giving priority to raising academic pay and putting more money into university teaching....
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Plea to DTI wins £10m for hi-tech
The recruitment crisis in academic computer science and electronic engineering is putting the UK's chance to benefit commercially from the electronic age in jeopardy, a parliamentary inquiry has...
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In the news: Mary Bousted
Mary Bousted moved into pole position this week in the race to become Britain's highest-paid teachers' union leader. Dr Bousted is the executive committee's choice for the post of general secretary...
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Appointments
* David Gibson , chief executive of the Association of Colleges, has announced that he will retire next August. Mr Gibson, 63, has been chief executive of the organisation for four years. * John...
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Revolt over BNP man
Student activists at Salford University are trying to prevent the youth leader of the British National Party from attending lectures. Tony Wentworth, a politics undergraduate at Salford, has taken...
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Writing on the wall for nature?
The Blank Slate
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Where Whitehall feared to tread
The History of the Rhodes Trust
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On the road to India, No 10 or the asylum
Eton Established
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel filmed by Stanley Kubrick: "Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in...
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The ultimate economic gaffe
Does Education Matter? Myths about Education and Economic Growth
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The first lesson - expect no thanks
The Effective Academic
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QAA mischief and Tesco - welcome to the compact
A Compact for Higher Education