Outrage at axing of classics
Queen's University Belfast should beware the ides of August - classics scholars across the UK and Ireland have mobilised to protest against its decision to axe teaching in Latin, Greek and classical...
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Caution on Pimlott ignored
The governing council at Goldsmiths College awarded Ben Pimlott a second five-year term as warden against the recommendation of its own reappointment committee, it emerged this week. The THES has...
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Union bids to improve access
Scotland should jettison postcodes as a means of determining whether students come from disadvantaged areas, the Association of University Teachers Scotland has said. Instead, it has come up with an...
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Five-star rhyme
Staff in the University of Birmingham's Research Support and Business Development Unit have attempted to lighten the gloom of the latest round of redundancies, which were brought about by the failure...
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Robbing the bank
The Diary is intrigued that York University Students' Union has placed an "essay bank" on its website. Along with physics, politics, health and other topics are five offerings on criminology,...
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Scissors for a snip
Student poverty being what it is these days, institutions have their work cut out trying to prevent students pilfering items such as stationery - no doubt to sell on the black market to raise a few...
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Mucky proposal
The small but growing Institute for Learning and Teaching is rebranding itself following protests that it has stolen the registered ILT trademark of the Institute of Logistics and Transport. From now...
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Man or mistress?
A perplexing tip-off arrives for The Diary. Girton College, Cambridge, has elected a new deputy head. Is this an entry for the dearly departed "On the move" column? Or an amusing anecdote, given that...
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Tourist trap
Tourists are being targeted as potential students by the University of Wales, Bangor. It is distributing leaflets showing Snowdonia and the Menai Strait to tourist information centres, shops, hotels...
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I've got mail
Monica Seeley, a visiting fellow at the management school at Imperial College, London, has written a book on email and the difference between the sexes. Dr Seeley believes that email messages from...
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Don's diary: ILT Madness
Monday Pressure building: applications pour in to beat the deadline for the Institute for Learning and Teaching initial entry route for experienced staff. Quick discussions about whether we will...
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In the news: Paul Black & Dylan Wiliam
Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam, the King's College London academics at the centre of this year's row over A levels, are used to exam controversies. Both are architects of the national curriculum...
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A fairer system must replace this mad rush
As university telephone switchboards cope with their busiest week of the year, this is an opportune moment to promote an admissions system that avoids the annual mad clearing scramble. It is time to...
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Boycotting Israel would constrain forces for peace
The academic boycott of Israel was a one-week wonder for most of the national media. Once it had become clear that other journals and institutions were not going to follow Mona Baker's lead in...
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Medical school leads way to a new third age
By 2021 there will be 12 million people aged over 65 in the UK, matched by a corresponding decrease in the number of young people. In this light, the decision by the University of East Anglia's new...