Rector gets ministry
If the new centre-left coalition in Italy lasts longer than recent governments it will fall to Luigi Berlinguer, 63, former rector of Siena University, to oversee in-depth reform of universities....
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Longer loans from Labour
Your anonymous author ("A Doctorate in McMarking?", Research Opportunities, May 17) illustrates a common view of what it is like to be a PhD student. However, for the majority, a PhD is a hugely...
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Soeur passing her limits
Stella Hughes talks to Helene Cixous, a feminist theorist who finds the label far too constricting to describe her numerous activities. The name of Helene Cixous means different things to different...
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'Genocide' row over Princeton job
Princeton University has become ensnared in the bitter enmity over the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during the first world war. The prestigious private university, which celebrates its 250th...
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Scots funders shun English quality union
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has underlined its arm's-length approach to a single United Kingdom quality agency by vetoing the transfer of its quality assessment responsibilities to...
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Robins in the wing
Endsleigh Insurance's extension of its business from looking after students to sponsoring the Football League is clearly having an impact on terrace discourse. Overheard during last weekend's Crystal...
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Is there an A-level doctor in house?
The quest to predict which A-level students will make good doctors could be helped by the discovery of a link between how they study when they are 18 and their later clinical abilities, writes...
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Fillip for Clinton voluntary work
President Bill Clinton has scored a small victory in his long-running tug of war with the United States Congress over Americorps, his prized civilian national service programme. Evidence released...
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Ortelius caught in the Net
The limitations of the Italian telecommunications system are frustrating efforts to make a sophisticated database of higher education in Europe speedily available worldwide. Ortelius, named after the...
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A PhD code of practice
Your editorial (THES, May 24) erroneously maintains that our proposals for reform of student maintenance are "highly regressive". You also misunderstand the important role of public-private...
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Oxford may lose its Liberty
The future of Oxford University's business venture with Liberty was in the balance this week following the upmarket retailers' announcement that all its branches outside London are to close to stem...
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Registers of interests become the norm
Eight out of ten further education colleges have registers of governors' and senior staff's interests, or plan to have them soon, according to a Further Education Funding Council survey. Three...
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Salford beefs up bully boys to tag rogues
A beef "police force" is to be trained by University College, Salford, which has been asked by the ministry of agriculture to help catch farmers trying to avoid the compulsory slaughtering of older...
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Le winning streak
Students in Paris have found a new answer to exam nerves. The first-ever examinations mass, organised by a Paris church last week, offered consolation to 400 jittery students and numbers of anguished...
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Touch-up
Yannick Minivielle-Debat, a specialist conservator at Bradford University, applies an all-over coating of wax to Rodin's "The Age of Bronze" in the entrance to the City Art Gallery, Leeds. A public...