Leicester row escalates
'Professor Colley, a protagonist in Dr Colman's dispute, has issued him with a formal disciplinary warning on a charge colleagues claim is trumped up' A whistleblower involved in an acrimonious...
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15-minute minister in a land of limbo
Three months ago, Northern Ireland had its first minister for higher and further education - for about 15 minutes. Brid Rodgers, a veteran of John Hume's Social, Democratic and Labour Party, was...
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Adult divide disturbs Natfhe
Lecturers' union Natfhe welcomed the white paper but is concerned about its focus on the needs of employment and employers rather than the needs of academic staff. It criticises the paper for failing...
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David (D. E. N.) Davies
Cool heads were not easy to find last week through the tragedy of the Paddington rail crash - until, that is, the appointment of Sir David Davies to head the inquiry on advanced automatic train...
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Nobel prizes
Gunter Blobel, 63, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at The Rockefeller University, has won the 1999 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine. He was awarded the prize for his discovery...
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Communication is all
Liberal Democrat activists in Scotland had been expected to inundate tomorrow's annual conference at Dunfermline with motions criticising their leaders' failure to abolish tuition fees. The Lib Dem...
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Unlucky for some
Poor British Council. No sooner does it secure the services of someone with a close ear to government, than he joins it. Peter Mandelson's appointment as council vice-chair last month will prove...
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Eyewitness
In Kuwait last week, Ahmad Al-Baghdadi, a university academic and newspaper columnist, was arrested and imprisoned for blasphemy. The four-week court sentence on Professor Al-Baghdadi, a professor of...
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World watch
The Dutch government is to make ¤4 million (Pounds 2.5 million) available to encourage foreign students to study in the Netherlands. Education minister Loek Hermans wants to collaborate with...
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World watch
Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has abolished the 10 per cent discretion on student admissions given to vice-chancellors, who have attacked the move as the usurpation of their powers. Students...
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Japanese unis are cut loose
TOKYO Japan's national universities are to be converted into independent agencies, education minister Akito Arima has announced. The minister's plan is intended to give the 99 universities greater...
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Kenya tells thousands to go to private sector
NAIROBI More than 21,000 students who qualified for higher education last year will not be admitted to Kenya's public universities. They have been officially advised to enter private universities....
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Serbs stay away from Pristina
PRISTINA A new term starts at the University of Pristina in the Kosovar capital on Monday but it is unlikely that Serbian academics and students will return, despite efforts by the international...
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World watch
Maurice Druon, the 81-year-old permanent secretary of the Academie Francaise, the body that guards the purity of the French language, has unprecedently announced he will retire at the end of the year...
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Academy tells Milosevic to go
Forty-five members of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences have called for a change of regime in Serbia and Yugoslavia. The academics issued an open letter warning that if Mr Milosevic remained...