Unidentified fellows
Another senior academic has made false claims about prestigious academic qualifications. Kurt Ziebeck, former head of physics at Loughborough University, has been falsely describing himself as a...
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Cricklade College chief sacked
Cricklade College has sacked its principal Richard Evans for "bringing the college into disrepute". But the troubled Hampshire college stands by its decision to dismiss the whistleblower who brought...
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Middlesex unfair dismissal claim settled
Suzi Clark, the communications chief sacked by Middlesex University after a row over freedom of speech, has settled her claim for unfair dismissal. Ms Clark fell foul of vice-chancellor Michael...
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In the news
Helena Kennedy's trip to Macedonia this week in advance of the Sarajevo stability pact conference will have been a good challenge for the QC's celebrated sense of fairness. Ensuring that the British...
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Don's diary
Sunday It is not every day that a Swiss mountain-resort hotel becomes home to Iranian ayatollahs, mullahs and members of the judiciary and prison services. Heads turn as the ayatollahs and mullahs...
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On the move
Sir Robin McLaren, former ambassador to China, becomes chairman of the college council of Royal Holloway, University of London, in August. He succeeds Sir Robert Andrew. Stephen O'Brien, chief...
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Glittering prizes
The Royal Academy of Engineering has given fellowships to: Anthony Ball, director of materials engineering, University of Cape Town; Yvonne Barton, chairman of British Gas Asia Pacific Pte Limited;...
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The THES diary
Old verbs gotta go We seem to be losing something of our sense of obligation, according to research on changes in grammar since 1961. A database being compiled at Lancaster University shows striking...
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Eyewitness
Next month the Rising Sun, indelibly associated with Japan, is likely to be finally recognised as the country's flag despite anxiety that it smacks of 1930s' nationalism, which peaked in the second...
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Rabat
African students at the universities of Rabat and Casablanca in Morocco protested to the university authorities that they became the victims of racist propaganda after a private television station...
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Tehran
Iran's state television has reported that a detained student leader admitted exiled dissidents were behind the violence during the worst unrest in the country since the 1979 revolution. Several taped...
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Sydney
A United States company that planned to bring in 1,500 US and Japanese students for the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games is suing the organisers and Australian Olympics minister Michael...
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Misuse of Kazakh capital
Kazakhstan is spending $1 billion on its new capital city while education is in decline, writes Ruth Cherrington It is just over a year since the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan officially...
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EC tells Greece to open jobs
The Greek government is facing stiff fines for failing to comply fully with a European Court of Justice ruling ordering it to abolish national discrimination restrictions that stop non-Greeks gaining...
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Entry exams abolished
Entry exams for would-be Greek university students have been controversially abolished in favour of the combined grades of the last two classes in secondary school, writes Makki Marseilles. The...