Cash boost to widen access
Scottish higher education institutions have won a 3 per cent cash increase for teaching and a 1.5 per cent cash increase for formula grant research in the Scottish ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council's...
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Don's diary
Friday: East Jerusalem Wake disoriented, but recall I am due on a week's trip to Israel/Palestine to carry out fieldwork near Bethlehem and give a paper at the annual conference of the Israeli...
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On the move
John Hogan, 37, academic registrar at the University of Durham has been appointed Durham's registrar and secretary from August 1. He succeeds John Hayward, who has been appointed provost of the...
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Let me not answer that
Every good civil servant knows there is always a way of avoiding a direct answer to a direct question, and when this principle is put into practice it doesn't matter much what the question is....
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Correction
Stephen Holt, rector of the Roehampton Institute, who is leaving in September, has been in the post since 1988 and not 1998 as stated in The THES.
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Beijing
China's college entrance exam system is to be made "more democratic and flexible", with a greater emphasis on developing creativity. The education ministry said it will soon start collecting...
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Rome
A group of architecture professors has launched an appeal against plans to rebuild the protective structure over Emperor Augustus's Altar of Peace in Rome. The project, called "the petrol pump"...
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Correction
Jill Macleod Clark, professor of nursing at King's College London, has been appointed deputy dean of the faculty of medicine, health and biological sciences, professor and head of the school of...
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In the news
Tim Brighouse is not a nutter. He won a rumoured Pounds 90,000 in an out-of-court settlement from former education secretary John Patten to prove it. And the present government clearly thinks he has...
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Glittering prizes
The University of the West of England has awarded honorary doctorates of engineering to John Taylor, director-general of research councils in the Department of Trade and Industry's Office of Science...
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Moscow
Russia may end relations between its leading nuclear research institutes and Iran in return for a lifting of United States sanctions imposed last month, nuclear power minister Yevgeni Adamov said...
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Athens
More than 12,000 extra students will be admitted to Greek universities and higher education colleges in September, bringing the total to 74,000, a rise of 18.8 per cent. The plan is for a student...
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Bamako
Police in Mali used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a student march on the office of president Alpha Omar Kanare after he rejected an amnesty for five students condemned to six years' hard...
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Stockholm
A $.5 million donation by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation will help establish global learning and research centres at the Stanford Learning...
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Builders bond a friendship
Uganda needs more primary schools. So Patrick Kelly and students from Britain and Ireland went out to help Last summer, 12 university students from Britain and Ireland rendezvoused at Gatwick Airport...