Don's Diary
Monday Answer call for vets to help with foot-and-mouth outbreak. At the Staffordshire operations centre, I am briefed on our area. The county is not a foot-and-mouth hotspot, but is a growing cause...
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Glittering prizes
The Open University 's honorary graduates for this year are: Jude Kelly , artistic director and chief executive of the West Yorkshire Playhouse; journalist Jon Snow ; clockwork radio inventor Trevor...
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On the move
Frances Cairncross , management editor of The Economist, will take over from Bruce Smith as chair of the Economic and Social Research Council . John Doidge , former head of the Centre for Staff and...
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Investing in the name
Plymouth University has blown thousands of pounds on redesigning its logo. The logo - a terracotta circle with three stripes across its upper half - now sports a background water effect and an...
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UN steps up to the mike
Luton University has much to be proud of. Not only are its graduates apparently more employable than those with Oxbridge degrees, but last week it was chosen to host a poetry event on behalf of the...
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Have a snooze on us
Admissions officers at the University of Surrey can expect a deluge of applications from chain-smoking layabouts. The university's human psychopharmacology research unit is looking for volunteers to...
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Bowled over by speech
Two members of the Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee clashed last week - not over policies, but ancient Greek pronunciation. Liberal Democrat MSP George Lyon accused...
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In the news: Dianna Bowles
In the space of a few hours this week, Dianna Bowles managed to raise £60,000 to establish a gene bank in an 11th-hour bid to save the rare Herdwick sheep from extinction due to foot-and-mouth...
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World watch
Algiers Two hundred teachers from the National University of Algeria have signed a statement condemning what they call the orchestrated campaign against the Algerian army in a book, La Sale Guerre (...
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World view: When we are what we do
Is the shrinking gap between work and play creating psychologically weaker workers? asks Dorothy Zinberg. When a frigid wind blew me into the atrium of New York's Museum of Modern Art, the first...
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Eyewitness: Austrian scientists come to terms with Nazi legacy
The image of Austrian universities as victims of Nazi terror during Hitler's seven-year occupation was dealt a blow at an academic symposium in Vienna last month. Many scientists stayed in Austria...
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Vision of lifelong learning put at the heart of OECD target
Governments must step up their efforts to encourage lifelong learning, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The conclusions of the latest edition of the...
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Degree unity sparks friction
The move towards a common European higher education system is happening faster than many people realise, delegates to Salamanca 2001, the Convention of European Higher Education Institutions, heard...
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Oman opens private option
Oman has turned to private universities to plug the yawning gap between school-leavers' demand for higher education and the supply of places at the sultanate's elite university. But it is determined...
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Survey queries clinical ethics
Nearly half the medical students questioned in a recently released survey have performed procedures they felt were unethical. The 1997 survey of University of Toronto medical students has revealed...