All-year study is 'inevitable'
Universities can no longer afford to stay semi-closed for 22 weeks a year, according to Tessa Blackstone, master of Birkbeck College and former Labour spokesperson on education in the House of Lords...
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Pan pipes
(Photograph) - An orchestral composition called "Scenes from a Glasgow Kitchen" involving frying pans and other kitchen utensils was premiered by the University of Plymouth Orchestra last month. The...
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Big bucks go to bigger chiefs
Huw Richards reports from the annual conference of the Royal Economic Society in Swansea on take-overs, pay and satisfaction. Despite the huge controversy that has attended the pay rises of managers...
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Greens help consumers beat the meat habit
Slowly but surely Britain is becoming a nation of vegetarians. According to a new study from the University of Manchester, the greatest decline in meat buying has been among women, who were the...
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Takeovers are bad for health
Huw Richards reports from the annual conference of the Royal Economic Society in Swansea on take-overs, pay and satisfaction. Nothing excites the City of London or the financial media more than a big...
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Best footnote forward
Signs of erudition or academic machismo? Sarah Nelson objects to the Triffid- like mushrooming of references. I am appalled by academics. If many are appalled in return, we can initiate a rigorous...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Here I am in berserkly Berkeley. After two sabbatical months, I can find my way around at least geographically. My office in the Center for Studies in 糖心Vlog is at the heart of the...
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Doctors in waiting . . . for rockets
It is springtime in Afghanistan where Kabul University has been de-mined and is ready to open. Christine Aziz reports At the medical faculty, one of the few campus buildings that has remained...
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Kabul campus countdown
It is springtime in Afghanistan where Kabul University has been de-mined and is ready to open. Christine Aziz reports There is very little left of Kabul University. Destroyed and mutilated buildings...
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Lily-whites under fire
The shock waves continue to spread from the decision by a United States appeals court to throw out the University of Texas's affirmative action programmes, designed to boost the enrolment of minority...
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Universities feed religious divide
The Lebanese government, under pressure from powerful religious lobbies, is licensing six new universities, three of them directly run by religious organisations. The decision has led to fierce...
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Fake degrees are a boom industry in Italy
Bogus universities are worrying the Italian university ministry and agencies that advise home and foreign students. Advertising in the press, the universities promise, for a hefty fee, "a degree for...
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V-cs tell faculties to fend for themselves
Australian universities have begun a desperate search for alternative sources of funding from federal government. The incoming conservative administration in Canberra has vowed to slash spending by...
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Exploding the myth of a PFI panacea
The Government's plans to involve the private sector in the construction and operation of large projects through the Private Finance Initiative has made little impact in higher education. Despite the...
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The battle for quality
If news of plans emerging from the joint planning group for Britain's new higher education quality agency are correct - and if wiser counsels do not prevail before they are finalised - a hard-won...