Israel fears Iraqi Scuds
Israeli academics fear Iraq may yet launch a missile attack and are sceptical about the prospects for postwar democracy in the region. Amatsia Bar-Am of Haifa University, who is an expert on Iraq,...
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Mugabe attacks follow funeral
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe used the funeral of the late minister of higher education to order the police and military to crush political opposition to his ruling Zanu-PF party - unleashing a...
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EU and US pool research resources
Although discord tarnishes many aspects of Europe's relationship with the US, cooperation is still being pursued in research. Both sides have agreed a series of deals to pool research expertise in...
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New quango is not right formula for UK science
The idea of a UK Science Foundation, floated this week by the Centre for Policy Studies, a group closely linked to the Conservative Party, is an adventurous one. Like their 2001 general election...
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Few of you would even get an interview here
Our universities are sinking into nationalised mediocrity and students could soon be joining academics fleeing to the US, says Michael Burleigh Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now begins with the...
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Alison Wolf
The government wants higher education to learn from business - Jits first lesson should be stick to core functions. In the excitement over the access regulator, another key theme of the recent white...
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Face-off
Tensions were high at the National Union of Students' annual conference in Blackpool this week. The chair received a complaint that the national executive was "intimidating" speakers by "pulling...
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Become king of the jungle
The Diary was excited by the prospect of an "attractive six-figure salary" on reading last week's advert for a director-general of higher education based in the Department for Education and Skills....
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Good news is the only news
An oversight of stupendous proportions this week from the University of Bristol. Its April newsletter notes: "The university is constantly in the media locally, nationally and internationally. Here...
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Who are the berks now?
Congratulations to the students of Birkbeck College, London, who beat postgraduates from Cranfield University to take the University Challenge 2003 title this week. The team of adult part-time...
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Frosty the student
A snowman is due to enrol as a student at the Berlin Polytechnic College. The sculpture, Yesterday's Snow , was created by artist Joerg Jozwiak. The classic three-ball snowman sports a red hat and...
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Don's diary: Military manoeuvres with US marines
Tuesday Amajuba: Zulu for "the mount of doves". An hour of making steady progress uphill, but the steepest section looms ahead. Below is the road to Laing's Nek, marking the positions from which the...
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Why I think universities should prepare for the greater rights of disabled students
Recent legislation has targeted universities in an attempt to tackle possible discrimination against disabled people. Since last September, after the Disability Discrimination Act was significantly...
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Liberate the labs
The UKresearch establishment hobbles its scientists. We must set them free, says Stuart Lyons Britain's science is in a poor state. This is not because our scientists lack talent - they are among the...
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Colleges need a guiding hand
Peer evaluation can raise quality in colleges and build trust in foundation degrees, David Robertson says The expansion of higher education is to be achieved largely in colleges, with incentives...