The THES Diary
Fostering ambitions Lib Dem education spokesman Don Foster is stepping down from the Commons education subcommittee after three years to "think about the future of the party". Could this be connected...
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On the move
Sir John Arbuthnot, 60, principal of Strathclyde University, is to retire at the end of next year after ten years' service. Roderick Floud, vice-chancellor of London Guildhall University, and Howard...
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Glittering prizes
Ronald Barnett, dean of professional development at the Institute of Education, University of London, has been awarded a DLitt (Ed) by the University of London in recognition of his contribution to...
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Eye witness
Turkey's universities are an important political barometer - in the 1970s they were the scene of some of the worst clashes between left and right in a period of social unrest that claimed the lives...
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An energetic quantum leap
The pace of life has quickened up so much that Sheldon Rothblatt asks how academics will cope next century The ultimate Don's Diary belongs to Joseph Romilly, an Anglican clergyman and registrary of...
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World watch
Kampala Ugandan education minister Francis Babu is to try to take a postgraduate course through distance education with a British university after he was expelled from Makerere University when...
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World watch
Boston The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has publicly acknowledged that it has been discriminating against women scientists for years. A five-year study published last week revealed that the...
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World watch
Wellington New Zealand's university staff union has challenged moves by Waikato University vice-chancellor Bryan Gould to restructure the university from eight schools into four faculties. An...
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Fehmi Agani
(Photograph) - Fehmi Agani (centre), the Kosovo sociology professor whom Nato reported executed on Sunday, pictured taking a break from the Rambouillet peace talks in February. With president...
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Botanist sends out an SOS for risotto, lentils and rye
Future generations may never savour the manifold pleasures of a "real" saffron risotto, one of the pillars of Italian gastronomic tradition. They may also never experience the delights of eating the...
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Dumpling diet clue to poverty
Students in Ekaterinburg are the poorest in Russia, a survey by financial magazine Kommersant Dengi claims. Based on a survey of monthly student incomes and expenditure on a range of necessities -...
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Pretoria crackdown on university financial bungling
Six former all-black universities in South Africa are under government investigation in an effort to "stabilise" their finances and administration, as well as restore confidence. The audits were...
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'Melancholy' v-c faces pay strife
As Australian academics prepare for industrial action over a 19 per cent pay claim, the federal government ruled out extra cash for universities to cover the cost. Education minister David Kemp told...
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Survival on cold comfort campus
One of the most important subjects Amy Stiffler says she has learnt as a student at Bemidji State University was not from a book or a lecturer. It was how to survive severe cold. When Ms Stiffler's...
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Forest sale fires activists
Kenya's high court has temporarily stopped the University of Nairobi from disciplining 68 students who joined demonstrations against the allocation of a Nairobi forest for real estate development to...