EU Greek Presidency provides food for thought on ERA
Brussels, 26 Jun 2003 As the Greek EU Presidency comes to a close, the General Secretariat for Research and Technology has published a report outlining a series of guidelines to further the...
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Strasbourg
Stanislas Gosse, an academic at a Strasbourg engineering school who admitted using a secret passage to steal 1,100 books, including a 15th-century incunabulum from the Mont-Sainte-Odile monastery at...
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Brussels
The European Commission has launched an online glossary explaining jargon used in documents for Sixth Framework Programme grant applications. fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/glossary.cfm A European Brain Council...
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Minsk
Graduates will serve in the army for one year, compared with 18 months for young men without higher education, under Belarus' new law on military service.
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Nouakchott
Several students suspected of complicity in an attempted military coup in Mauritania have been arrested and face trial.
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Kuala Lumpur
Deputy prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has denied that a new university admissions system designed to ensure a fairer representation of Malaysia's Chinese and Indian population has had the...
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Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan president Saparmurat Niazov is trying to prevent students from travelling abroad for their education, fearing that foreign universities could become a hotbed of Turkmen dissent. A new...
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Inspire your students to blow their own trumpet
Ever questioned why some undergraduates fail? It's all down to a lack of confidence, insists Christopher Ball Most students get degrees. A few fail. Why? The question arises even more insistently in...
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Alison Wolf
Male-female differences will influence success in certain degrees. We should look deeper than statistics to examine bias Back in the late 1980s, I nearly fell out permanently with a close friend and...
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Today's news
Aids vaccine hope as scientists map antibody The search for an Aids vaccine took an important step forward yesterday when scientists said that they had mapped the structure of an antibody that can...
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Och aye the morn
An international conference at St Andrews University this weekend on "Violence, Culture and Identity" seems determined to go beyond the academic into the realm of the practical. On both Saturday and...
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Making a clean sweep of Harry
With the latest Harry Potter initially selling at 500 copies a second, it's a comfort to know that the English funding council cannot be far behind. Its latest publication is a 100-page tome on...
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Bottoms up, Christine!
Spotted in Yorkshire last week were Christine and Neil Hamilton, attending a University of York Wine Society reception, after Christine - who graduated from York - agreed to be patron of the society...
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Randall does himself justice
After policing standards in higher education and enforcing rough justice, former quality boss John Randall has moved on to a fitting new role. He has been appointed chair of the Justice Sector Skills...
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OU scores an own goal
The Open University is cashing in on David Beckham's transfer to Real Madrid by offering free places for him and his wife on its new beginners' Spanish course. The Diary wonders whether this is wise...