What is the real cost when the user pays?
These are boom times worldwide for higher and further education. In most advanced countries, the old distinctions between compulsory education at primary and secondary levels and post-compulsory...
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Alison Wolf
Instead of worrying about tuition fees scaring off EU students, we should concentrate on attracting the best overseas students. A few weeks ago the British Council warned that higher tuition fees...
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The season for self-promotion
As Christmas carols ring out in the aisles, the Diary has received the first entry for this year's worst Christmas greeting competition. It's a calendar produced by Intellectual Partnerships...
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Cull makes St John's fair game
St John's College, Cambridge, is under fire for deciding to cull its Canada geese. The college said it had received complaints about the geese gathering in its grounds and disturbing the working life...
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Ubiquitous cheating
Students at Rensselaer Polytechnic University in New York State have been taking advantage of the use of laptops to cheat in exams, invigilators have discovered. A report on the virtues of "...
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A solo stand against the trend
As the trend for collaborative, interdisciplinary team-working sweeps the nation, Martin Kemp, professor of the history of art and a fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford, has his work - as...
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This laureate's a no-brainer
Why did the scarecrow win the Nobel prize? He was out standing in his field.
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Don's diary: Sites for lifelong unlearning and stamps
Thursday Anish Kapoor remains at the top of the hit list for the fifth month running. His name in a search string leads more internet users to my website than any other, which is a bit frustrating as...
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Why I... have no regrets about having left academe
Mark Kleinman. Head of the Housing and Homelessness Unit at the Greater London Authority The conference facilitator suggested introducing me as an "ex-academic". That didn't sound right. "I think it...
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Gridlocked by transfer
The lack of institutional lines of command can stall collaborative projects, says Peter Coveney. Academics today find themselves under considerable pressure from a number of different demands,...
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Why we're all theorists now
There was never a time 'before theory'; there can't be a time after, argues Alastair Renfrew. Theory, it seems, is dead. The eager obituaries, which began to appear in the late 1990s, roughly at the...
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Great expectations for postgrad literacy
Whatever the changes in higher education, grumpy old academics still crave the write stuff, says Tim Birkhead. One of my early PhD students was the most charming, highly motivated and sharpest...
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Jobwatch: Business savvy required
University College Northampton hopes to reposition itself with a post that bridges academia and the commercial world, while the University of East Anglia seeks 'deal-makers', Pat Leon reports....
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The man who brought teaching in from the cold
Graham Gibbs' extensive research into the theory of education has nowbeen rewarded with a prestigious appointment at the Oxford Institute. Pat Leon reports. In January 2004, Graham Gibbs, guru of the...
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Teaching:On the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Geraint Johnes Age : 45 Job : Professor of economics and director of the Graduate Management School, Lancaster...