UK 'responsive and alive'
Tony Blair (right) is backing a four-pronged plan to raise the UK's share of the overseas higher education market from 17 per cent to 25 per cent and to double the number of overseas students in...
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Don's diary
Saturday Finish exam marking and fly to Boston. Met by Bill Gardner, New Hampshire's secretary of state. It is snowing heavily. Stop for pizza at Mamma Luci's. The primary is three days away. Bill's...
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Saving a princely sum?
Rumours that Prince William is heading north to study the history of art are "well-founded on speculation", according to Edinburgh University's press office, which stresses that all applications are...
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Making an impact
Ron Thomson, a Glasgow University expert in mechanical engineering's ballistics and impact group, has been campaigning for improved campus road safety for years. Now the inevitable has happened - he...
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The right moment
Conservatives have cancelled a long-awaited announcement on higher education policy because it would have been "premature". How, one wonders, can an announcement scheduled weeks ago for next Tuesday...
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Lavly way to spend time
Student activists at Warwick University have been celebrating a high turnout to their three-and-a- half-hour annual general meeting. But the unexpected enthusiasm appeared due less to the topics...
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Lynne Brindley
Twenty-five years ago, studying for a diploma in library and information studies at University College London, Lynne Brindley won the Sir John MacAlister award for best student on the course. Now she...
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On the move
Bob Nelson, controller, BBC Training and Development, has taken over as chair of the board of directors at the national training organisation for broadcast, film, video and multimedia, Skillset. He...
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Glittering prizes
J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series of books, is to receive an honorary degree from the University of St Andrews. Sir Martin Rees, astronomer royal for the Royal Observatories of England...
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Austria's right dismays academics
As Austria faces economic sanctions after the inclusion of Jorg Haider's Freedom Party in the ruling coalition, academic contacts are already suffering in the international reaction. Canada and the...
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A case of quality control
British universities are delivering education overseas and must ensure a service of a high standard, says Michael Brown. Many British universities are successfully delivering quality programmes...
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Mexico City
More than 2,200 police ended the 291-day strike at the National Autonomous University of Mexico on Sunday, arresting a total of 632 strikers. The strike began in April in protest at plans to raise...
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Current sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY www.esrf.fr/useroff/...
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Prince George, British Columbia
An exchange programme between the University of Northern British Columbia and the Yakutsk State University in Siberia is in doubt following a Russian exchange student's suicide, according to the...
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Rome
Giuseppe D'Ascenzo, rector of La Sapienza University, has signed a new statute for the promotion of some 700 graduate technicians in medicine to fully tenured university researchers. The legislation...