Media manipulation
(Photograph) - digital montage "Blessed are the peacemakers" by Mark Evans, a multimedia student from the University of Hertfordshire, on show at the New Designers Exhibition in London last week. www...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Andrew Pakes's article implies that Birkbeck College, London, is an example of worst practice in the way it deals with student complaints. Lucy Reed President Birkbeck...
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Genoa
A professor of surgical anatomy at the University of Genoa has been arrested for alleged Mafia involvement in money laundering and fraud. Erminio Cariati is accused of a money laundering operation...
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Sources for research funds
SIR ROBERT MENZIES CENTRE FOR AUSTRALIAN STUDIES www.austudies.org/menzies/ Northcote Graduate Scholarships Scholarships are to enable students resident in the United Kingdom to undertake a higher...
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What's up postdoc?
A survey shows that physics PhDs on short-term contracts get a raw deal. Alison Goddard reports Career Paths of Physics Postdoctoral Research Staff is published by the Institute of Physics. Postdocs...
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Agony aunt
Q A colleague proposes to award first-class honours to a borderline student with whom he is having an affair. I expect the decision to be challenged but I do not know if I should reveal what I know...
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Lifelong learners will profit from devolution
Devolution is opening up "a new and positive era" for Scottish further and higher education, according to Henry McLeish, Scotland's enterprise and lifelong learning minister, writes Olga Wojtas. Mr...
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Home rung
(Photograph) - Aberdeen University chaplain Gillean MacLean with the last surviving original bell from King's College Chapel. The 234-year-old bell is one of 13 that were sold during an 18th-century...
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Inquiry stalls Quigley report
Sir George Quigley has suspended his inquiry into the impact of fourth-year Scottish tuition fees because of a potential clash with Scotland's own investigation into student finance. The Quigley...
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Finance plan takes shape
Scotland's independent committee of inquiry into student finance is set to reveal its consultation priorities at the beginning of August. The 14-member committee held its first meeting last week,...
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In the news
In a collection of memoirs by alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, journalist Richard Gott recalls his first meeting with Roger Waterhouse, who was wearing "a garish blue sweater and no jacket...
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On the move
Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge, 65, chairman of British Airways, has been elected chairman of Chatham House. He will take up the appointment in late September, succeeding the present chairman, Lord...
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Don's diary
Thursday I am on my way to Abu Dhabi to deliver a five-day training package on police management skills for women to the city's policewomen. With little knowledge of the levels of educational...
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Warwick saga
The letter from the vice-chancellor of Newcastle University defending Diana Warwick was utterly perfect ("Warwick and conflict of interest", THES, July 16). Was it actually written by Laurie Taylor?...
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Warwick saga
Of course Warwick should resign. It is very worrying that the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals council could not see this: does it view universities as just another government department...