Oz unis prepare for 2000
MELBOURNE Despite taking every precaution, Australian universities are still worried by what might happen at midnight on December 31. One institution has banned staff and students from its campuses...
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Virtual universities
A sneak preview of next year's news stories University employers agreed to meet with unions this week after discovering that staff have been refusing to carry out administration, research or teaching...
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Beijing
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has admitted 55 new members. Five Hong Kong scholars were included but the new members included only two women, one the physicist Zhang Zongyie. The academy's...
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Jewel support
(Photograph) - Jewel support: student David Patch 'chases' a design in copper at the new Sir John Cass Centre for Silversmithing and Jewellery at London Guildhall University, funded by the Worshipful...
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Paris
The Presses Universitaires de France, one of the major cultural and intellectual landmarks of Paris's university district, has been saved from being turned into a dress shop. After months of protest...
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Library joins Keele criticism
The British Library has joined academics in condemning Keele University for clearing itself of improper behaviour over its sale of rare mathematics books to a private dealer for Pounds 1 million last...
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'Eminently duplicable' collection is sold off to the highest bidder
The Turner books were "under-conserved" and "under-used" and "where they end up is irrelevant", said the collection's purchaser, international dealer Simon Finch, this week. Mr Finch slammed concerns...
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Bill gives sector power in schools
Universities and colleges are to be given powers to provide secondary-level education independently of local education authorities. The Learning and Skills Bill, published last week, will allow...
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Don's diary
Wednesday I spend the whole day driving, passing through Boni and Hombori, two tiny African villages to the east of Bamako in Mali. Along the way, we pick up a soldier who has an AK-47. His weapon-...
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Ministerial models
A sneak preview of next year's news stories Education ministers are enrolling as mature students as part of education secretary David Blunkett's plans to set a good lifelong learning example. Further...
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Can't eat, won't eat
A sneak preview of next year's news stories The campaign against genetically modified crops is to be extended to all food. Protesters launched the "Don't eat dinner" action after receiving documents...
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Poems and photos offer insights into physics
Strathclyde University has unleashed two radical weapons - poetry and photography - in the battle to improve public understanding of science. Dino Jaroszynski and Brian McNeil of Strathclyde's...
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Study finds heads 'out of touch'
Universities are becoming "fractured" communities, thanks to the emergence of a cadre of senior manager-academics who have lost touch with teaching and research, a national study has found, writes...
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Give us Pounds 5 billion and we'll give back more
The CVCP aims to persuade the government that higher education is vital to wealth creation and social inclusion. Tony Tysome reports Vice-chancellors conjured scenes from Oliver Twist last week, when...
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Richard Baker
By all accounts Richard Baker, leader of the National Union of Students in Scotland, is the very model of a modern student leader. Once criticised by some for backing the formation of the Cubie...