UK astronomers join exclusive Euro club
UK astronomers were welcomed into the European Southern Observatory at a meeting held in London on Monday. The £80 million initial membership fee will give British astronomers access to some of the...
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Fellowships 'show government's esteem'
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge has praised lecturers for having "survived" a generation of underfunding. Presenting the third national teaching fellowships in London, on Tuesday, she said...
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Call for better library research resources
The UK must develop a national electronic research library and a strategy for research library provision to ensure researchers have access to world-class information resources, the education and...
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Nashville
Tennessee has resolved its budget deadlock, allowing its public colleges to reopen after a week. Spending on higher education will rise 3.2 per cent.
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Ottawa
Twenty-nine engineering students at Carleton University have received marks of zero for cheating on an assignment. The students admitted they lifted the essays from the internet.
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Moscow
School-leavers in flood-hit areas of southern Russia will not have to take university entrance examinations but will be admitted on school graduation diplomas instead.
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Degrees of certainty?
Does the University of Edinburgh know something the rest of us do not? At 5pm today, it is due to award chancellor Gordon Brown an honorary degree. Meanwhile, the rest of us await the results of the...
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Pota-toe blight
Following on from our Diary item of June 7, judges in Holland have found guilty Teunis Teun, 39, the man accused of breaching the peace after baring his feet in public. Mr Teun was last week fined €...
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Dynamic response
Alfred Nobel made his name - and his money - as the man who invented dynamite. Key to the invention was the method he developed for stabilising nitroglycerine, a highly explosive and unpredictable...
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Prizewinning excuse
The fragrant Mary Archer has been given the opportunity to correct two errors she made in the obituary of Max Perutz that she wrote for Chemistry in Britain . In a letter to this month's issue, she...
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Pole position
The Diary receives word that Plymouth University's student union is in dire financial straits and has resorted to holding pole-dancing evenings to generate cash. Great story - but a phone call to...
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Trains of thought
Entries have been arriving for the competition to name the train on which vice-chancellors will travel to the annual Universities UK residential meeting, which will be held in Aberystwyth in...
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Screen test
Following last year's fire at City University, vice-chancellor David Rhind has become one of the select band of university bosses who toil in an open-plan office, coping without his now-vanished...
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Rik's top of the profs
The Diary is looking forward to a new television series staring Rik Mayall as a scheming university professor. He will play Adonis Cnut - pronounced "Canute" - in a follow-up to his role as sleazy...
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In the news: Wendy Piatt
Wendy Piatt is owed much of the credit for the proposals for student support unveiled this week by the Commons' education select committee. Dr Piatt, a senior research fellow at the Institute for...