Don's Diary
Day One Land in Jamaica, 33 years to the week since my first visit. I am here to write a report on old building society documents; can they sustain a business history? I jostle with the crowds and...
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Hole truth
(Photograph) - Birkbeck College students struck gold - or at least ancient vessels for extracting silver and gold from ore - on an archaeological evaluation of a car park in Bermondsey for the London...
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Lottery rejects castle repairs
Cash and conservationists confound Durham University's plans for historic sites Durham University has accused the Heritage Lottery Fund of "scandalous discrimination" against higher education. Adrian...
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Female blonding
I am blonde, not bland, and an unashamedly committed feminist who does not judge a person's politics or intelligence by their hair colour - or any other physical feature. Amy Hale Research fellow in...
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Podgorica
One of the two Canadians held by the Serb military authorities along with two Britons arrested near the Montenegro-Kosovo border is a business student at the University of Victoria, British Columbia...
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Glittering prizes
King's College London has awarded honorary fellowships to: The Duke of Wellington, descendant of a college founder; Lady Wolfson, trustee of the Wolfson Foundation; and Jose Blanco, trustee and...
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On the move
Jeremy Peat, chief economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland and Alan Tripp, former managing director of Sykes Enterprises Inc, have been elected to the Scottish ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council....
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In the news
Peter Williams, who this week produced the damning report into Derby University's operations in Israel, is perhaps one of the least popular figures in higher education. The man who pioneered the "...
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Cosmic newcomers
Tense moments at the International Astronomical Union general assembly in Manchester this week when three planet hunters revealed their hands after a round of cosmic poker. First to the table was...
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Country curiosities
Tim Relf, writing in Farmers Weekly, has produced a handy guide to avoid misunderstandings between farmers and students seeking vacation work. What students say and what they mean: "I've a wide range...
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Diggers get dirty
The irritation that archaeologists feel at Channel 4's Time Team has spilled onto the net. A website hosted by Edinburgh com-pany, Backtrack Archaeology, urges action. "You are the Upper Chigley...
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Eyewitness
Organised crime in the former Soviet Union has moved into archaeology - excavating sites in Crimea. Gold looted from Scythian graves is being sold illicitly to antique dealers in the local capital,...
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Moscow
About 200 students from the Central African Republic, who held their country's Moscow embassy staff hostage in protest against the failure to honour a promise of air tickets home for the summer...
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Bogota
Jaime Nino Diez, rector of the Universidad Aut"noma de Colombia, announced a switch next year to a new system of evaluation based on "qualitative assessment". But he said the autonomous status of the...
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Beijing
Universities from China's richer eastern regions are sending thousands of volunteer graduates to help develop the country's poorer western provinces. Rich universities such as Nankai and Tianjin are...