At last the United Kingdom has the prospect of a research ethics committee system that works. That is the main message I take from the report of the inquiry led by Rod Griffiths, director of public...
Valentine Cunningham breathes a sigh of relief as Oxford finally scraps its compulsory Anglo-Saxon English course. Surely the walls of Jericho have fallen. Most sensationally, the Oxford University...
Universities clearly believe that football can reach the students a mere prospectus cannot touch. Last week, the diary reported Newcastle University's wheeze to attract Indonesian students by sending...
Is the University of Birmingham becoming a royalist enclave? Last month, it was the Princess Royal who paid a visit to the Midlands, to open the university's new sports pitches. Last week, 25 years...
Recent focus group research that called the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals "remote" and "pompous" seems not only to have bred an inferiority complex but a determination to bring in the...
Student rebels of the 1970s are hard to put down. One writes to the Warwick University student newspaper congratulating those who occupied Warwick's senate last term. Describing himself as a veteran...
Whoever the political winners and losers of the Greater London Assembly elections may be, one winning profession is academia. Five of the 25 members of the London Assembly have university links,...
Geoff Whitty, dean of research at London University's Institute of Education for the past two years, is to become the institute's director, beating more than 30 candidates from six countries. He will...
A plan to establish a Palestinian national distance learning centre has been initiated by the World Bank. The centre will be used for virtual discussions between politicians from different countries...
The University of Durham will award honorary degrees this year to: Alan Cowey, Medical Research Council research professor at the University of Oxford (DSc); Stuart Hall, former professor of...
The humanities faculty of the University of Bologna, which includes Umberto Eco's ground-breaking degree in communication sciences, is offering a cash reward of E854 (Pounds 500) to students who...
(Photograph) - A British artist has used an exhibition to highlight an environmental danger linked to the Vatican in Rome. Rose Frain, 1999-2000 Scottish Arts Council Scholar at the British School in...
Up to 70,000 students drop out of German universities each year without a diploma, and the numbers have doubled over the past 20 years, according to a study by the Hanover-based Higher Education...
The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen believes it will produce sought-after graduates with a pioneering course in artificial intelligence. In September, the first students will begin a four-year...
Can nuclear waste be disposed of safely? A group from Sheffield is looking at the alternatives. Over the past two decades, natural disasters, such as the recent storms in France and floods in...