Paris
Unesco has funded a chair in the political economy of education, to be held by John Morgan, director of Nottingham University's Centre for Comparative Education Research.
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Baghdad
Deteriorating security in Iraq may delay the start of the academic year if the constitutional drafting process is upset by an increase in terrorist attacks, according to local government officials.
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Correction
Comments by John Mullarvey, chief executive of the ߣߣÊÓƵn Vice-chancellors' Committee, were incorrectly attributed to Peter Høj, chief executive of the ߣߣÊÓƵn Research Council, in a report on...
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Making a pig's ear of an unscientific free-for-all
Arguments for open-access publishing are simplistic and need to be rethought, argues Rene Olivieri Why can't debates over science publishing be more like... well, science? Mr Jones had a farm. One...
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Gary Day
Why the fuss over new guidelines for style and presentation? They just update E.M. Forster's advice to 'only connect' There are some people in higher education who do nothing but grumble. You should...
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Behind the stuffed goat's penis lurks ambition
Taxidermy: Stuff the world BBC Two, August 22, 9pm A desire to examine the unsheathed tip of a goat's penis is probably best kept secret. But, as Morgan Matthews's quietly excellent film Taxidermy:...
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Whose side is she on?
Dame Patricia Hodgson's appointment to the board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England last week has raised eyebrows. Dame Patricia, who will take over as principal of Newnham College,...
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One man and his boat
We were envious to discover last week that vice-chancellors own more than flashy cars - some have yachts and others planes. But it appears we misrepresented Roland Levinsky, vice-chancellor of...
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Sitting pretty low
It seems that everyone wants to know what goes on behind closed doors in admissions interviews for Oxbridge. Newspapers report that tutors at Oxford University have been encouraged to sit on smaller...
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Waste matters
The Collins English Dictionary casts the new-look Department for Education and Skills in an interesting light. Apparently, a "rammel" in Northern English dialect refers to discarded or waste matter.
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Piped music hits wrong notes
It's not unusual for conference delegates to emerge from their rooms looking fragile and bleary-eyed on their first morning. But those attending the National Postgraduate Committee's annual event at...
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Why I believe the tuition-fee regime may force students out of the arts
"Choice" is the new buzzword in higher education. It would appear, however, that certain choices are more acceptable than others. One of the best choices I ever made was to study for a BA in English...
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Irrational response
Female staff should stop filling the emotional gaps left by poor male managers, writes Mary Evans As readers of Laurie Taylor's column in The Times Higher will know, the University of Poppleton is...
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Little room left for discretion
Over-regulation is likely to damage our traditional university culture, argues Graham Everest In recent months, I have sat on a committee whose aim was to agree a uniform system of penalties for late...
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Is vision blurred by global view?
Should UK universities concentrate on domestic students or should they switch their focus to wooing top international talent? asks Maria Misra In a few weeks I will pay a flying visit to Delhi,...