It is business as usual for robust global winner
THES reporters find out how enrolments on MBA courses around the world have fared in the face of slowing economies and the aftermath of September 11. Michael Vitale, dean of the Australian Graduate...
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Merit is victor as Japan says sayonara to hierarchy
THES reporters find out how enrolments on MBA courses around the world have fared in the face of slowing economies and the aftermath of September 11. Five years ago a Japanese student wishing to...
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A qualification to provide shelter from recession
THES reporters find out how enrolments on MBA courses around the world have fared in the face of slowing economies and the aftermath of September 11. International MBAs would be particularly...
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Alarm at narrow focus of funding
The Australian government has generated alarm across the nation's higher education sector by specifying that A$170 million (£61 million) of research funding must go to four priority areas. Federal...
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Texas dean in Enron role
The University of Texas law school, whose dean is leading Enron's own inquiry into its corporate collapse, received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company, university officials confirmed...
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Thai bank to tackle student debtors
Executives from the state-run Krung Thai Bank, which oversees Thailand's student loan programme, are recommending legal action against thousands of graduates who default on payments and squander...
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University challenge
Private tutor Mike Stein has written to education secretary Estelle Morris warning her that he intends to commit an act of civil disobedience after his complaint that British higher education...
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Crack code for entry
The University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, has hit on a novel way to attract students. It aims to strengthen its computer science department by raising the number of students with excellent...
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Prepared for the worst
The London ÌÇÐÄVlog Consortium, a grouping of 40 university-like objects within the M25 motorway, is preparing a disaster recovery plan. The idea is that should something untoward befall an...
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Master has lot of bottle
The master of Birkbeck College, London, has a plan to raise the college's profile. Each time one of his staff features in the papers or on the airways, Tim O'Shea invites them to choose a bottle from...
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Norwich's dark arts site
Oh dear. Visitors to the Norwich School of Art and Design's website may well decide that if it's design they want, Norwich is not the place. Not only do the navigation buttons appear as black text on...
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A tale from Middle Earth
A reader points out that Frodo's story, as told in last week's diary, does not end with his departure from his native shores. In the new land, he misses being Gandalf's protégé, and the people he...
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Blair should restate his mission for universities
Nobody knows what Tony Blair meant when he made his now-famous commitment to 50 per cent participation in higher education. There is also doubt about where the percentage stood when he said it, and...
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Overpaid and toothless - fat cat v-cs must go
The amounts vice-chancellors are now being paid is outrageous - and most offensive of all is the practice of bumping up salaries in the year before retirement, thereby sticking a large bill on the...
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Money, money makes Labour's world go round
First university fees, next school and hospital fees? Tony Benn asks how much more Labour will make us pay for. One option is conspicuously lacking from the government's highly publicised review of...