Analysis: Salvaged ship sets sail out of the storm
Four years on, TVU is charting a course for others to follow. Alison Goddard reports It is four years since Thames Valley University was branded a failing institution, with the worst standards...
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Danish MPs urged to clear confusion over stem cells
Danish researchers who want to use stem cells, xenotransplantation and gene therapy will have to wait until 2004 for parliament to pass legislation after a government committee raised significant...
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EU eyes up East's research potential
East European applicants for European Union membership are making progress in promoting research but more work is needed if they are to fully exploit the EU's new sixth framework programme, according...
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Bold US wows France
The US is the first Anglophone country to be invited to join the Francophone University Agency (AUF), an association of 400 higher education and research centres in 30 countries. Several New York...
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Promise of £220m for needy academia
Italy's government has bowed to pressure from the Rectors Conference, academics and researchers and has promised an extra €350 million to €450 million (£220 million to £284 million) for state...
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Political animal takes Russia to tusk
A new political party has been launched in Russia that aims to enlist millions of academics, scientists and students as its core supporters. Slon - the acronym for the Union of People for Education...
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US reaches out to black pupils
Only 40 per cent of African-Americans who graduate from US high schools go on to a university education. A renewed effort is under way to persuade young black Americans that not only can they afford...
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NZ finds merit in British funding model
New Zealand is drawing up a performance-based research funding mechanism for universities and other tertiary education institutions that draws extensively on the British research assessment exercise...
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ߣߣÊÓƵns snub Asian studies
The study of Asian languages and culture in ߣߣÊÓƵ is in a "crisis" exacerbated by the Bali bomb and the withdrawal of all ߣߣÊÓƵn university students and staff based in Indonesia. A report by...
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In the news: Gill Evans
After a decade-long battle that has included three High Court cases, an independent inquiry and several aborted trips to the employment tribunal, Cambridge University lecturer Gill Evans has finally...
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Don's diary: Taking leave of Tokyo
Monday The last week of my time as visiting professor in the department of culture and representation at the University of Tokyo in Komaba. First autumn tints in the sky. My work here is largely done...
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Backed by Bentham
University College London has resurrected its spiritual father, the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, to campaign against the speed of its proposed merger with Imperial College, London. Bentham, who died...
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Star-crossed physicists
Proof that Nobel laureates read The Diary arrived this week in the form of an email from Anthony Hewish, who won the 1974 prize for physics for the discovery of pulsars. He wrote about a Diary item...
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70 years on PhD track
Seventy years after graduating from his first degree, a 92-year-old ߣߣÊÓƵn has been awarded a PhD. Ron Fitch, who was South ߣߣÊÓƵ state's railway commissioner, was presented with his...
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Crap birthday party
A Leeds University student has been treated to a surprise 21st birthday party at one the country's largest sewage works. Colin Pitts, a course tutor in environmental bio-geoscience, organised the...