Peter Mandelson
In a speech earlier this month Peter Mandelson, secretary of state for trade and industry, said that the promotion of enterprise must be at the heart of the government's approach to science, "turning...
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Promotions put on hold
Cambridge University has frozen its entire annual round of personal promotions to readerships and chairs next year because of objections to its proposed procedural reform. At a discussion in the...
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Does Korea hold the key to FE in the UK?
"Is this a proper use of public funds?" a college principal asked in an anonymous circular this week, referring to a Further Education Funding Council report on Korea's education system. Coming hot...
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Union men cut from Cricklade
Industrial negotiations broke down last week after managers at Cricklade College sacked three lecturers, including whistleblower and national Natfhe negotiator Andrew Murray. The sackings, the...
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Brought low by high ambitions
Under Mike Fitzgerald, staff relations and quality at Thames Valley University deteriorated. Phil Baty and Alan Thomson look at how his laudable goals led to a damning QAA report and his resignation...
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A Spiky passion
"Presumably, if you spend ****-all, you get absolutely perfect standards." Mike Fitzgerald is not a man to pull his punches. Perhaps the best illustration is this now notorious outburst, directed...
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Dirty way to skip jabs
Ready-to-eat sachets of genetically engineered soil bacteria may soon provide an easy and cheap way of vaccinating against some diseases, research suggests. Researchers at London University's Royal...
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Mums suffer in large family life
Mothers living in extended families, which may help children, suffer unusually high levels of depression and anxiety, research suggests. The research undertaken at Southampton University raises...
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Future looks rosy for Dutch inventor
Dutch inventor Wilhelmus Hofstede has come to the aid of partying romantics, developing a new method of creating multicolour roses. His method, for which he has applied for a European patent, means...
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Don's diary
Day 1. Eight hours bouncing about in an open truck and suddenly the silence of the desert. I am at the foot of the Brandberg: 30 kilometres wide, 2,600 metres high, a huge lump of granite in the...
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Women in white coats
"You do not have to be very intelligent or confident to be a scientist." University scientists were no doubt relieved that they failed to feature in a government poster campaign designed to get girls...
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On the move
Robert Burgess, senior pro vice-chancellor of the University of Warwick, will be the University of Leicester's vice-chancellor from next academic year. Professor Burgess will succeed Kenneth Edwards...
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Glittering prizes
Steve Gibson, the man who saved Middlesbrough Football Club when financial crisis plunged it into liquidation, is to receive an honorary master of science degree from the University of Teesside....
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Palermo
Students at the University of Palermo, Sicily, are pressing their rector to explain why a multimillion-pound building contract was awarded to a company controlled by the imprisoned Mafia "boss of...
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Oslo
Kirsti Koch Christensen has been elected rector of Bergen University. She is pro-rector of the university, professor at the university's department of linguistics and a member of the main board of...