Will a merger enable Guildhall and North London universities to prosper? Alison Goddard assesses the state of the union. On August 1, London Metropolitan University is set to rise from the ashes of...
THES reporters examine appointment systems worldwide: Legislation is radically changing the way Spanish universities select their staff. Under a law that came into force on January 14, would-be...
THES reporters examine appointment systems worldwide: Italy's academic recruitment system has been the object of controversy for decades. A job in the state university system is a job for life with...
Six Dutch hogescholen (polytechnics) have come under scrutiny from the auditors after allegedly claiming government subsidies for foreign students who were registered but never attended lectures....
German students are to be given a guarantee of no fees for a first degree under a government reform of the national framework law on higher education. But the reform leaves the door open for...
Turkish universities are to help in the reconstruction process for Afghanistan. Hacettepe, Bilkent and Istanbul universities have said they will provide training programmes in medicine and education...
The Vatican says it will open its secret archives from 1922 to 1939 with priority given to relations between the Holy See and Germany. So far, only documents up to 1922 have been made available to...
When David Begg called for the satellite tracking of motorists in order to levy road tolls, he showed characteristic confidence in the face of potential outrage. Such imaginative solutions to the...
Monday A self-employed academic needs project management skills. I am my own secretary, too, and the morning is spent arranging research meetings and coping with the gale-disrupted travels of an...
Stephen Schwartz, former vice-chancellor of Murdoch University in Australia, arrives in London this week to take up his new job as head of Brunel University. Pilloried last year for taking a 65 per...
Expectations were running high at a Guildhall banquet in London last week when vice-chancellors rubbed shoulders with bankers at the Institute of Financial Services' president's dinner. Education...
Congratulations to John Beaumont, who has been appointed chief executive of the e-University. Mr Beaumont joins UK e-Universities Worldwide from troubled telecoms group Energis, where he was a board...
The Diary is relieved to hear that it's not just us with a schoolboy sense of humour. Apparently, several of the research councils's press officers suggested to their chief executives that the name...
The British women's curling team, who last week collected gold at the Winter Olympics, were given their winning edge by a team of academics from the University of Edinburgh. Led by Jane Blackford,...
Images of Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears and Eminem have joined the Beatles and other 1960s icons on the walls of the London Institute's new headquarters, the former Royal Army Medical College in...