Frugal forecast for ERC prompts budget fears
The European Research Council will start life next year with annual funding of just fi300 million (£209 million). Although draft figures indicate this should rise to €1.8 billion a year by 2013, the...
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Rebel forces target campus recruits
Colombian police have warned that the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) plans to regain its influence in universities across the country, writes Anastasia Moloney in Bogot ....
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Indians exploit Aussie skills gap
Indian students choose ߣߣÊÓƵn universities less for their reputation and more because they aim to become permanent residents, according to new research. Writing in the Monash University journal...
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Will big spenders desert campus for city lights?
As city academies offer donors more bang for their benefaction, universities could lose out, says Mike Smithson A university development officer scans the City pages for news of alumni and discovers...
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Gary Day
Have you seen that TV programme called Grumpy Old Men ? If not, it consists of showbiz personalities griping about modern life. But what exactly have they got to complain about? They're all rich,...
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Keep abreast with Edinburgh
Edinburgh University must have been delighted to find itself namechecked in the Daily Sport on Saturday. And before you start assuming it was for its discoveries in animal diseases, think again. Its...
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'Saxpence' and the city
Aberdeen University's physics department has decided to balance the "serious stuff" on its website with some traditional 1920s jokes about the legendary meanness of Aberdonians. Here's a sample: a...
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A striking resemblance
Relations between academic staff and the management at Sheffield University must be pretty bad. It appears that non-union members could be taking part in the boycott of student exams and assessments...
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First the North, then the world
A healthy dose of ambition has infected the University of Central Lancashire. A paper setting out the university's goals for the next ten years states that one aspiration is "to be ranked alongside...
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Sarcasm comes to grief
Which sympathetic academic, when told that a student had lost a parent and could therefore not hand in an essay, gave this reply: "Where has she lost her - in the supermarket?" diary@thes.co.uk
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Laugh online and the world laughs with you
Outrageous and contagious Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, until May 8 Anyone on campus over the age of 30 is likely to think that the word "viral" could refer only to some kind of nasty...
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Marx and Darwin's legacy to the BNP
The far Right trades on racism and xenophobia, but it also draws on an intellectual tradition that can't be dismissed, says Steve Fuller Does the British National Party represent the 21st-century...
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Love it or hate it, it really is another country
The Times Higher asks academics what inspires and irritates them about Oxbridge and notes a certain shyness about being identified * "What I find most annoying about Oxbridge is the assumption that...
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Buck the trend, dare to be nasty
A buyers' market is causing universities to be soft on students, but it's time to rebel, argues Frank Furedi Higher education faces a formidable dilemma as it completes its transition from operating...
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Open your arms - or they'll leg it
If you don't want to lose students, make sure that you are recruiting honestly. Let freshers know what to expect - and what support is available - from the very beginning, advises Harriet Swain...