Tomorrow's man downgrades graduates
Juergen Ruettgers, Germany's new "minister for tomorrow", has warned that graduates will have to expect lower salaries in future and accept jobs that will not necessarily match their qualifications....
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Cheques and balances
Peter Knight looks at the winners and losers in university teaching Which university wins and which loses when it comes to funding teaching? Or is the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England...
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Geography looks for its place on the map
Huw Richards takes new directions from a conference in Northumbria John Osborne may have died just before the turn of the year, but the most famous invention attributed to him appeared to be out in...
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Michael proves he can do
Last summer Michael Little was a conventional sixth-former, sitting his A levels. This winter, he is an unconventional undergraduate, reading for an external London University management degree while...
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Plight of the forgotten prisoners
When Roger Matthews visited a Spanish prison and found that 70 per cent of the inhabitants were HIV positive, and that the seven British prisoners incarcerated there were unsure of their rights,...
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Wagner'swish for 'inner life'
Leeds Metropolitan University vice chancellor Leslie Wagner says elitism is the major cause of the "tensions and dysfunctions" afflicting higher education. Delivering his inaugural lecture yesterday...
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Hygiene dean joins World Bank
Richard Feachem, dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is moving in April to a newly created senior post with the World Bank, over-seeing its health sector work. Professor...
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Oxford medical department Pounds 400,000 in red
Oxford University's department of medicine has a Pounds 400,000 deficit despite attracting outside research grants worth more than Pounds 10 million, ministers heard last week. The debt means that...
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Literal lament
Sideswipe no 99, spotted by Guy Judge of the department of economics at Portsmouth University, comes from Louis de Berni res' Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994): "Philosophers who have only one idea...
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Love letter
Officials at the Department of Environment have put in a spirited bid for the title of most inaccurately addressed letter in higher education history with their missive apologising to Liverpool John...
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Trusthouse college
While the newer of Leicester's two universities is known to be expanding exponentially in all directions, it still came as a shock to one Midlands academic to discover that they have gone into the...
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Knight moves
Will Glasgow University's management group have to sit at a round table in future? The university scooped no fewer than three knighthoods in the New Year honours list, with "Sir" now to be added to...
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Pole apart
The Royal Geographic Society may have merged with the Institute of British Geographers, but the new joint body clearly has no intention of submerging its tradition of travel to the far-flung quarters...
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I spy
Stella Rimington, who recently became Edinburgh University's alumna of the year, claimed in her acceptance speech that she had never planned her career, and certainly never thought that she would...
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Candid corpse
Liz Crossan, obituaries editor of the British Medical Journal, has been bemoaning the fact that many obituaries present a less than accurate picture of the late lamented. The BMJ at one point asked...