Anxious experts survey Silbury
A seismic survey of Silbury Hill is to be carried out to reveal the pits and tunnels that threaten Wiltshire's giant enigmatic neolithic monument. Archaeologists concerned by the prospect of Europe's...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Cars flow over the brow of the hill like Indians heading for General Custer. Visitor numbers for the Eden Project are more than double planned for - as one of the last millennium projects we...
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Giddy about Giddens
A whole new area of academic research has emerged - the study of Anthony Giddens, director of the London School of Economics. This month sees the launch of a third book edited by Christopher Bryant,...
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Toon meets gown
Oxford University has invited the cream of the Northeast's teenagers to a special conference at Newcastle United's ground with a free lunch and a chance to meet footballers, in an attempt to boost...
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A lovable boss
Congratulations to Simon Lee, rector and chief executive of Liverpool Hope University College. He has been shortlisted for the accolade of Britain's best boss in a competition sponsored by Lloyds TSB...
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Massage while-U-work
Edinburgh University recently hosted an interdisciplinary conference, organised by its Metamorphosis student society, on how to make work more interesting, creative, healthy, inspiring, fun and...
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On the move
Jocelyn Bell Burnell , professor of physics at the Open University, has been appointed dean of science at the University of Bath . Charles Bodman Rae , director of studies at the Royal Northern...
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Glittering prizes
City University will award honorary degrees to: Sir Richard Wilson , cabinet secretary and head of the home civil service; Clive Leyman , former chief aerodynamicist on Concorde; journalist Simon...
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In the news: David Currie
The new dean of the City University Business School plans to haul it from the lower ranks of the business school league tables to become one of the world's premier clubs. Months after defecting from...
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World view: A nation's search for self
C. W. Watson examines the steps Indonesia is taking to ensure that identity does not become a crisis. Well aware of the fragility of the unity of the Indonesian state, successive governments have...
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World Watch
Princeton Princeton University's trustees have chosen its first female president. Shirley Tilghman, a senior molecular biology professor, will take over from Harold Shapiro in June. Arlington The...
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Eyewitness: Universal education targets hit snags
As the world economy slows and the Bush administration displays a degree of ambiguity over its aid policies, targets set last year in Dakar for gender equity in schools by 2005 and universal primary...
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Books left behind in race to be modern
Earlier this year, Vietnam unveiled its first learning resource centre, at the University of Danang. The only thing missing was books. Such contradictions are not uncommon in Vietnam. The clamour to...
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Germany uses test to raise its appeal
Germany has launched a standardised test of German as a foreign language as part of its drive to make its universities more attractive to foreign students. The Deutsch als Fremdsprache Test (TestDaF...
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Mexico's elite recovers from rocky ride
A seismic shift in the organisation of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Unam) is planned by its rector, Juan Ramon de la Fuente. The former government health secretary and Unam academic...