Scots dons urged to criticise
Scotland's academics need to show greater intellectual courage in questioning the government's educational policy agenda, a Glasgow University expert has warned. Walter Humes, head of Glasgow's...
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Bid for Russian 'five-year plan'
The Scottish Parliament offers hope of a coherent long-term policy for modern-language learning, a Russian expert believes. Edinburgh University senior lecturer Mike Falchikov, who last weekend...
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LJMU panel discredited
Liverpool John Moores University has refused to release the report of an inquiry into complaints that students were given "totally incorrect" teaching material. But six months after Whistleblowers...
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Tashkent
Uzbekistan president Islam Karimov has decreed the establishment of a Council for Spirituality and Education to ensure that citizens, particularly "educated" young people, are "profoundly aware of...
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Princeton
Fourteen demonstrators were arrested as philosopher Peter Singer arrived for his first day as professor of bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values. Professor Singer has angered...
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Don's Diary
Thursday The conference season has begun with a vengeance. Having recovered from the International Marketing and Purchasing Conference at University College, Dublin, I am invited to attend the...
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Teesside just not sexy
Forget all those other league tables: make way for the Red Mole alternative ratings, based on the votes of more than 7,000 students from across the country. Top of the heap is Dundee, owing to the...
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On the move
Mike Spyer, former director of the Autonomic Neuroscience Institute and dean of the Royal Free Campus and University College Medical School, has been appointed principal and dean of the newly merged...
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Glittering Prizes
Goldsmiths College has awarded honorary DLits of the University of London to Harold Pinter, writer, poet, director and political activist, and Neil MacGregor, director of the National Gallery....
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Eyewitness
For years the world's poorest countries have paid more to service their international debts than they receive in overseas aid. But this week's revamp of the three-year-old Highly Indebted Poor...
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A place in the global village
Brenda Gourley argues that the communications revolution offers the chance to share ethics and morals Internationalising a university is a beneficial process to which South African universities...
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Valladolid
Jose Manuel Aroca, professor of algebra and geometry at Spain's Valladolid University, has received a six-month prison sentence and been suspended for a further six months for manipulating entrance...
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Pristina
The statue of Dositej Obradovic (1742-1822), the Serbian writer and philosopher, has been pulled down from outside the rector's office at Pristina University. Obradovic was one of the founders of...
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Kingston, Ontario
A study of Canadian census data puts the earning power of university graduates higher than graduates of vocational and other colleges. After several years' experience, postgraduates earn 50 per cent...
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Black v-c quits SA for World Bank job
Mamphela Ramphela, the first black vice-chancellor of a formerly white South African university, has quit her job at the University of Cape Town to become a managing director of the World Bank. The...