Analysis: The survival of the well-endowed?
With talk of 'privatisation' forced on to the education agenda, Claire Sanders asks if universities could raise enough money to stay afloat The very mention of the word privatise sends vice-...
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Whistleblowers: Unwelcome criticism
Woe betide any academics who question the received wisdom at Surrey University's European Management School. It would seem from a memo obtained by The THES that the school's director, Paul Gamble,...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Finalise details for a workshop I have organised at Montford Bridge near Shrewsbury on the ecology and conservation of an endangered species, floating-leaved water plantain, or Luronium to her...
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Glittering prizes
De Montfort University has awarded honorary degrees to Christopher Bruce , artistic director of Rambert Dance Company, (doctor of art) and Maggie Semple , director of the learning experience for the...
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On the move
Sam Leinster , director of medical studies and professor of surgery at the University of Liverpool, is inaugural dean of the new medical school at the University of East Anglia . Robert Fraser has...
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In the news
As floodwater seeps over the country, Sir John Harman, chairman of the Environment Agency, has often followed in its wake, insisting "it's no good pontificating from an office in London". He has...
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Sticky wicket
The dedication of some university chancellors knows no bounds. Lord MacLaurin, England and Wales cricket board chairman and chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire, has blamed his university...
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High flood-level talks
When York University vice-chancellor Ron Cooke wanted a word this week with the city's MP, Hugh Bayley, who lives on the same street, he found a neighbourly chat harder than he thought. Sixteen feet...
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Nineties' brain power
There is nothing like first-hand experience for informing high-level research. Hence the decision by Michael Denham, 92, a consultant and lecturer at Northwick Park Hospital, to take time out for a...
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On a baby-kissing trail
Strathclyde University press officer Judith Fryer is on the campaign trail as Liberal Democrat candidate for the Scottish Parliament in the late Donald Dewar's Glasgow Anniesland seat. Kissing babies...
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Identity search
The marketing director for the University for Industry demonstrated refreshing honesty when challenged over the title of his organisation by university administrators at their conference last week. "...
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Eyewitness: Lifeline for South Asia's child labourers
Nepal's carpet industry has been a lucrative source of foreign earnings for one of the world's poorest countries, but its reliance on child labour has been heavily criticised. Children toil for hours...
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Paris
The director of the Ecole Centrale Paris, whose reappointment was blocked by former education minister Claude Allegre, has got his old job back. Daniel Gourisse has been head of the engineering...
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Lagos
The vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos has resigned over his failure to secure senate approval for a Nigerian satellite centre at the University of Seoul, South Korea, and to supply detailed...
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The Higher Institute of Art in Gualeguaychu is offering Argentina's first diploma in carnival studies. The five-year course requires would-be carnival specialists to attend lectures on the history of...