Glittering prizes
Birkbeck College, London , has awarded fellowships to: Richard Evans , professor of modern history at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Gonville and Caius College; Peter Mortimore , a former...
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And God had no funding
Old Testament expert Alastair Hunter of Glasgow University's divinity faculty gave scripture a new spin at last week's Association of University Teachers' Scottish council. He described how Adam's...
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V-cs' feast turns famine
Vice-chancellors were tempted to consider such cannibalism at this week's meeting of the International Universities Presidents' Forum in Cardiff. After a drinks reception, they sat down to dinner but...
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Driven to drink by QAA
The Quality Assurance Agency might claim to represent the interests of students when it inspects the quality of teaching in the country's universities. An incident last week, however, demonstrated...
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High-rise washing line
Possibly the most distressing Comic Relief fundraising event last week was that organised by the University of Wolverhampton. It took pairs of pants from local people and hoisted them from the crane...
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Don's Diary
Monday Earlier start to feed sheep, allowing for the ritual of disinfecting and showering. Leave foot-and-mouth epicentre of the South-west to hear second reading of hunting bill in the Lords. Attend...
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In the news: Helen Aspell
Helen Aspell, who is challenging the incumbent Owain James for the National Union of Students presidency, looks set to put up a tough fight. Next week's national conference in Blackpool will be the...
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On the move
The University of Wales Institute, Cardiff , has promoted the following to professorship: David Botterill , director of research and enterprise at the Welsh School of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure...
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World View: Support frontline scholars
As violence again racks the Balkans, academics in Macedonia and the former Soviet bloc need our intellectual and scientific aid, writes Tim Unwin. Tension in the air was palpable as my flight from...
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World watch
Brussels Macedonia's unofficial Albanian-taught University of Tetovo is to receive an additional e5 million (£3.1 million) from the European Union. EU foreign ministers called on ethnic-Albanian...
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Eyewitness: Putin forces pace in new spy mania
The chill of Russia's new information security doctrine is being felt in a regional capital outside Moscow, where Igor Sutyagin, a researcher who specialised in arms control issues at Moscow's USA-...
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Quality control agency delayed
Delays in appointments to the governing board of Australia's new University Quality Agency have put back the timetable for audits to begin by several months. The first audits were due to start this...
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New Zealand's radical rethink wins over critics
Universities have given a cautious welcome to a watershed report on the future of New Zealand's higher education institutions. The Tertiary Education Advisory Commission has advised the government to...
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Nigerian dons back legal action in US against junta
Nigeria's university community has welcomed legal action in the United States against three of the country's former military rulers. Generals Ibrahim Babangida, Muhammadu Buhari and Abdulsalaami...
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Asmal to overhaul study aid scheme
South Africa's student financial aid scheme, which this year will spend R600 million (£26 million) supporting more than 81,000 needy scholars, is to be reviewed under education minister Kader Asmal's...