Clean-living launch
Television historians clashed in Oxford this week as Tristram Hunt and Simon Schama launched their latest books. Dr Hunt is well known for his literalism: during his BBC series on the English civil...
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Cosmic injustice?
The passage of time seems not to have eased Jocelyn Bell Burnell's feelings about the 1974 Nobel prize for physics. Antony Hewish won it for the discovery of pulsars, the bizarre rotating remains of...
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Party poopers
Pub and club owners in Austria are threatening legal action against students who organise large student parties. Business owners, particularly in smaller cities such as Salzburg, have complained that...
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All for one?
News reaches The Diary from Liverpool John Moores University where elections are being held for the academic board. Three professors will be allowed to sit on the board. Ballot forms listing six...
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Tune in to turn-offs
A Norwegian lecturer has launched a campaign to get more ugly people on to the nation's television shows. Trond Andresen, of the Norwegian Institute of Technology, said that journalists,...
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Taking top jobs
Congratulations to Hilary Hurd, who was one of the first recipients of a Daphne Jackson fellowship and now, 12 years later, has been appointed professor of parasitology at Keele University. Best...
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Training hospital gets £25m injection
* Leicester and De Montfort universities have signed a private finance deal worth more than £400 million. The deal will invest £25 million in academic facilities at Leicester General Hospital....
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Sir Anthony Greener appointed QCA chair
Sir Anthony Greener, deputy chairman of British Telecom and chairman of the University for Industry, has been appointed chairman of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority on an interim basis...
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Cultural school to move into Sheffield centre
Sheffield Hallam University's School of Cultural Studies is to be relocated to a city-centre site after a £17 million investment was agreed by the university's board of governors this week.
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College staff vote to strike over pay
College staff are promising fireworks in their campaign for better pay, as five college-sector trade unions are set to hold their first joint strike on bonfire night, November 5. Members of Unison...
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Appeal to save Queen's classical languages
Members of the ruling senate at Queen's University, Belfast, were due to meet today to hear an appeal to overturn a decision to close its classical languages department. But a u-turn could upset vice...
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Protest may prevent cuts to library hours
Growing student protests have forced Edinburgh University to rethink plans to save money by cutting library hours. Edinburgh has almost 20 libraries scattered across the city. It wanted to save £25,...
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Standard learning entitlement mooted
The Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee is next week expected to call for a standard learning entitlement for everyone. Tom Kelly, chief executive of the Association of...
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Search for maths tutor to star in video tutorials
The search is on for Britain's most engaging maths tutors to help students making the switch from school to university. Those selected will star in video tutorials on a DVD-Rom aimed at giving...
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York College plans to build campus
York College - created three years ago by the merger of the York College of Further and Higher Education and York Sixth Form College - is planning to build a £35 million campus. College...