Head to head on the hustings
Take a snarling audience, add politicians and stir it up with a chairman who half-jokingly compares himself to Jerry Springer, and you have a recipe for a US chatshow. Although the accents were...
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'We have an active role to play'
Higher education may not come under the Welsh Assembly's remit, but institutions are regarding its advent with a mix of optimism and worry. "It will be an opportunity and a challenge," said Adrian...
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'If we do not make our mark now...'
Joan Stringer, principal of Queen Margaret University College and vice-convenor of the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals, served on the constitutional steering group on the Scottish...
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Glittering prizes
Robert Hawley, chairman of the Engineering Council, has been awarded the Order of Diplomatic Merit, Kwang-ha Medal (First Degree) by the Republic of Korea for his promotion of friendly ties between...
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Heard but unsaid
Surprise all round at Senate House last week at the inaugural lecture of one of Britain's best-known historians. With the bold words "I have never been afraid to speak my mind", David Cannadine...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Start of the second and final week of a course I am delivering to 12 hardened CID men who now have to struggle with the academic demands of essays and group presentations. Most claim the last...
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On the move
Jacqui Johnson, a lecturer in communications and media studies at Bracknell and Wokingham College, has been elected vice-president of university and college lecturers' union Natfhe. She will take up...
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Mirjana Markovic
The name Mirjana means peace. But Mirjana Markovic, wife of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, has never really known any. She was born in 1942 in a forest when her teenage mother, Vera, was a...
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UK inventors not cashing in
Of 371 US patents citing UK neuroscience papers, 13.1 per cent of the inventors named are from the UK but only 3.4 per cent of the owners are UK-based companies and individuals. Wellcome said: "There...
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Ivy League cleans up fraternities
Boston A small, select New England college's decision to end traditional fraternities and sororities has fanned a smouldering debate across the United States about how much colleges should regulate...
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V-cs fear copyright loophole
MELBOURNE Australian vice-chancellors fear their universities will become involved in costly legal battles because the current law on copyright does not cover electronic copying and transmission. The...
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From Rome's reformer
Rome When Ortensio Zecchino took over as university and research minister last October with the creation of the latest Italian government, pundits expected him to take the wind out of his predecessor...
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German students rate east the best
Hamburg Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, students rate universities in the former communist east among the best in reunified Germany, according to a league table compiled by the news...
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Don's diary
On Vesting Day St Andrew's College merged with the University of Glasgow to form a faculty of education. Four days to Vesting Day Draft a bid for the Economic and Social Research Council's Teaching...
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Sofia
Bulgarians see corruption as less of a problem in universities than in other state sectors. A survey put university professors and administration staff 18th out of 21 professions in a corruption...