Don's Diary
Sunday New year's resolution: work less, relax more. But what else do you do if you wake at 7.00am on a winter Sunday and V is still asleep? I'm reading Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, which I have never...
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Glittering prizes
Businessman and philanthropist Sir Sigmund Sternberg, awarded last year's Templeton prize for progress in religion, has become the first non-head of state to receive the Rotary International Award of...
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Taking a title role
Just when you thought he was about to retire, Lord Dearing steps into the breach once more, with impeccable civil service tact, to take on all those difficult education jobs that no one else seems to...
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Florence
Students at Florence University have accused academics of "callousness" and "indifference" when they continued with oral examinations after a 23-year-old student died of heart failure while waiting...
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San Francisco
Eight students from minority background are suing the University of California at Berkeley for discriminatory admissions procedures. They were turned down despite very high scores on standardised...
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Palermo
A court decision annulling more than 25 statutes at the University of Palermo has been strongly criticised as a major potential setback to single university autonomy. The Sicilian regional...
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Why academic life is sweet
An extended family, secret societies and camaraderie I Harvey J. Kaye extols the professorial career These days American academics rarely speak publicly about the delights of donnish life. No doubt...
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Historian's election opposed for questioning 'Armenian genocide'
Paris The appointment of a prominent historian to one of France's most celebrated higher education institutions has provoked claims that he has questioned whether the deaths of hundreds of thousands...
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People's University challenge to regime
Belarus, where higher education is coming under increasing pressure from the authoritarian regime of president Alaksandr Lukashenka, has become the latest country in Europe to launch an alternative...
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Clinton turns from colleges to schools
The Clinton administration has firmly shifted its priorities away from widening access to colleges in favour of school improvements. Education secretary Richard Riley confirmed the priority following...
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Smart to be simple
Harold Thimbleby challenges the view that lifelong learning should equip people to cope with an ever more complex world Each person now consumes more energy, travels faster and is able to consume...
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Welsh wizardry gives managers the edge
A management information system based on one devised in Wales has been adopted by eight technical colleges in Victoria under an Aus$8 million upgrade which promises to revolutionise many aspects of...
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Novel appointments
Nottingham Trent University's trAce online writing community (trace.ntu.ac.uk) has signed up three virtual writers-in-residence for six-month stints, beginning with Florida-based Christy Sheffield...
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Grove for academe
The Combined ÌÇÐÄVlog Software Team and publishers Macmillan have announced an academic licence for the Grove Dictionary of Art Online. Subscribing institutions gain access to text articles...
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Star quiz
Test your knowledge of space, the Spice Girls or the Teletubbies at the University of Portsmouth astronomy site, meat.csm.port.ac.uk. Set up with funding from the Particle Physics and Astronomy...