A late substitution
The scheduling of last month's Spurs versus Man. United match proved rather irksome to senior figures at the London School of Economics, who were due to attend an away weekend in Kent. The previous...
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Hodge meets her match
Despite being carefully hand-picked by the University of Cambridge, the theology students who met higher education minister Margaret Hodge this week were not pulling any punches. After the minister...
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Graduates cost
A delegate at this week's Conservative Party conference made an interesting economic point about the merits of employing British graduates. Universities UK had organised a fringe meeting where the...
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On the move
Gill Tucker , of the University of East London, has been appointed vice-principal of Napier University. Recent appointments at the University of Leeds include: Louise Ackers , formerly of the...
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Glittering prizes
The Institution of Chemical Engineers has presented the Brennan Medal to Frank Crawley , of the University of Strathclyde, for his book on best practice for the process and chemical industries. Mike...
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In the news: Paul Nurse
On Tuesday, Sir Paul Nurse received the phone call that all scientists dream of. The 52-year-old pioneer of cell biology had won the Nobel prize for medicine. It is deserved recognition for the man...
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Vive the open PhD viva!
Ruth Morse advocates the French system of appraising doctoral students and appointing new lecturers All over France, doctoral students are struggling with their last revisions because they know they...
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World watch
Jakarta Hundreds of Islamic fundamentalist students attempted to storm Indonesia's parliament building, chanting their support for terrorist Osama bin Laden and holy war against the West. Riot police...
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Eyewitness: Qumran manuscripts enrich the Testaments
A new edition of the prestigious Jerusalem Bible, with changes in text and commentaries, is being prepared on the basis of recent studies of the Qumran manuscripts (Dead Sea Scrolls). The...
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Austria revamps
The European Investment Bank has announced that it will lend €100 million (£62.8 million) to an Austrian government construction agency to build and renovate university and school buildings. The...
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Minority wrangle ends in deadlock
The long-running dispute over university education for Romania's ethnic Hungarian minority is damaging diplomatic relations between Romania and Hungary, according to Romanian prime minister Adrian...
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Rise in salt levels sparks disaster fears in Turkey
The University of Dicle in southeast Anatolia is to work with the government to try to prevent environmental catastrophe in Turkey. Dicle's Bahattin Gumgum said the university had joined with the...
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Make out to make marks
More than a quarter (28 per cent) of students in Germany say they would have sex with a professor or lecturer if they thought it would improve their grades, according to a Playboy magazine survey of...
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Plans for £200m radiation-source centre under review
Researchers at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire are waiting to discover whether plans for a £200 million centre for radiation-source technology will be given the go-ahead. The original bid for...
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Scotland eyes US in major overhaul
Wendy Alexander, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, this week launched a review of higher education and pledged it would be put at the top of the Scottish Parliament's agenda....