Odds are on millions watching Euro 96
England will win the European Football Championships. And the final will be watched by an audience of around 500 million people, writes Huw Richards. The odds are that the second of those statements...
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Africa seeks research genie
Top African academics are hoping to raise cash for a research university for the continent in order to cut the brain drain and reliance on foreign staff, as well as providing a safe haven for...
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Exam conspiracies
There is nothing like a test to concentrate the mind, but what if you never fail? Alex Millmow looks at Australian policy Examinations. The very word arouses fear and rank uncertainty. The fear is...
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Don's Diary
Friday. Arrive Jan Smuts, Johannesburg at breakfast time to 70 degrees of sunshine, quickly blighted by the realisation I am short of one bag. Relieved to say that at least the suitcase carrying the...
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Dismissal of one in five staff attacked as 'illegal'
The legality of dismissals of one in five of Hungary's academics and other higher education staff is escalating into a constitutional crisis after conflicting findings by the courts and the ombudsman...
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Dean resigns
The dean of the troubled Southampton Solent campus based in Athens, Veroni Papatzimou, has resigned. Her decision precedes a ballot of all staff working for Southampton Institute, which runs the...
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VAT shock for staff vacancy ads
Universities and colleges are facing a bill for millions of pounds following the removal of VAT exemption on the cost of staff recruitment adverts. City financial consultants estimate that some large...
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Wales set for EU techno drive
Europe's first regional blueprint for technological development was unveiled in Wales this week by the principality's secretary of state William Hague. Wales is one of four European regions (the...
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...Years of work go up in smoke
Aisling Irwin looks at the aftermath of the Ariane V explosion. Space scientists and plasma physicists were yesterday counting the cost of the exploded Cluster mission in terms of seriously damaged...
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Cold war thaw fuels Arctic study
The thaw in the cold war has led to pioneering glaciology research in the Russian Arctic that aims to produce better predictions of the effects of global warming. The centre for glaciology at the...
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Anti-cuts strike closes campuses
Universities across Australia faced their worst collective disruption in memory last week as thousands of staff and students went on strike for 24 hours over the prospect of savage cuts in federal...
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Labour'spoor plan
I write in response to Bryan Davies's recent letter (THES, May 31) responding to your comments on Labour's proposals for the "reform" of student maintenance. It is interesting that he objects to your...
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Nolan report tale contains a sting
"Nothing in this report points to any fundamental malaise in any of the sectors we have examined. But there is, and will continue to be, a tension between the management-driven and output-related...
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Over-reaction is the right reaction to risky business
The correct reaction to the controversy over potentially contaminated baby milk is over-reaction, such as the withdrawal of all relevant products from sale, a risk expert said this week, writes...
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Vote on BAT chair
Cambridge University's decision to accept Pounds 1.6 million from tobacco giant BAT Industries for an international relations professorship is to be put to the vote of the 3,000 dons. The vice...