A Spanish university is considering amending its statutes to allow its rector to seek a third term of office. Staff at La Coruna University are divided over the campaign to allow Jose Luis Meilan to...
"In the next century, the engine of growth will be the process through which can economy creates, applies and extracts value from knowledge." So said Charles Leadbeater of Demos, allegedly Tony Blair...
Saturday Several key staff come in to make final preparations for their teaching quality assessment. Seek final statistics on 1999 student entry. Secretary asks: "Do you want sex?" then collapses...
One wonders who is responsible for strategic decision-making at the Association of MBAs, which recently announced a new speaker for its annual dinner. The event, usually held this month, had to be...
The Scottish football team's defeat at Hampden Park, compounded by a victory at Wembley that still excluded it from the European cup, could leave many distraught supporters turning to God. So it was...
Sharp diary eyes were alerted by a press release from "Liberal Democrat shadow department for education and employment secretary Phil Willis". Surely the term "shadow" can only apply to Conservative...
Glasgow University's John Dunn, reporting in the staff newsletter on the latest senate meeting, reveals that senators "levelled the most fearsome of accusations with a courtesy, a graciousness and a...
Gordon Marshall, fellow in sociology at Nuffield College, Oxford, has been appointed chief executive and deputy chairman of the Economic and Social Research Council. He will succeed Ronald Amann on...
The Wiener Library, London, has awarded Robert Moeller the 1999 Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History for his work War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany. Till...
Ten years ago, the Berlin Wall was breached. A week later came the Czech and Slovak "Velvet Revolution". Central and Eastern Europe, soon joined by states of the defunct Soviet Union, embarked on...
The main library and archives of Portugal's Coimbra University were closed after library staff complained of headaches, difficulty breathing and fatigue at work. Toxic substances used during a...
The jailing of two students in Singapore for consuming cannabis at an end-of-exams party in Perth could damage Australia's image in Asia, according to Curtin University deputy vice-chancellor John...
The boom in multimedia-based training may be creating an underclass of workers who cannot cope with technology-based training, according to a survey. The survey of 180 personnel directors working in...
Lancaster University's computing department has been awarded Pounds 300,000 by Microsoft to fund research in communications and operating systems supporting distributed multimedia and mobile systems.
* The College of Ripon and York St John is basing itself in York after operating from two campuses since 1974. It says it is moving in order to retain its independence as a Christian seat of learning...