Cupid's book of ciphers
By cracking the code of a PoW's wartime diary, a mathematician gave a woman a glimpse into her husband's torment and passion. Karen Gold reports In the dining room of the Savoy Hotel, still standing...
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A troubled history that began in 8,000 BC
In her new book, Marianne Elliott draws on her experiences of growing up a Catholic in Belfast to trace the forces that have fused the country's politics with religion. Anne McHardy reports For...
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Higher Channels
John Davies chooses some broadcasting highlights (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week While Channel 4 is still focusing on doctors' mistakes (see Sunday and Tuesday), BBC1 presents medicine...
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A lord with a rainbow notion
Author of the controversial report published this week on Britain's multi-ethnic future, Bhikhu Parekh argues that we should learn to value our cultural diversity and consign to history attitudes...
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Eye bath
(Photograph) - Tina Romanay has her eyes examined at City University's new optometry department, which has moved to Bath Street, next door to Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. Photograph by JOEL CHANT
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Peshawar
Police have closed the women's department of the Afghan University in Peshawar, Pakistan, claiming it is located in a residential district where commercial, business and higher education activities...
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Cochabamba
Bolivian undergraduate students on law, psychology, sociology and economics courses at the Universidad Mayor de San Sim"n have been granted equal say with their professors in appointing teaching...
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Mixed ratings for teachers
ߣߣÊÓƵ's new university graduates have mixed feelings about the quality of teaching they received. A survey of 1999 graduates found that only two in five rated their teaching as good. They were...
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Dribbling drivel
Administrative staff at the Association of University Teachers' headquarters clearly feared an outbreak of verbal diarrhoea when a fax machine jammed, blocking all incoming messages. A memo was...
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Kosice
Plans are under way for Slovakia's first Romany university, to be founded in Kosice. The university will have 11 faculties, with tuition conducted in Romany and English. The United Nations, European...
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Washington
The student loan default rate in the United States has fallen below 7 per cent for the first time since official records began. The proportion of borrowers who defaulted within 12 to 24 months after...
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Bucharest
Two university rectors were suspended in Romania after allegations that their institutions were awarding degrees illegally. The two are Dolphi Drimer of the Ecological University in Bucharest and...
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Virtual learning demands a harsher regime
Virtual universities built without redesigning the basic structures of institutions are doomed to failure, according to new research, writes Alison Utley. James Cornford, of Newcastle University's...
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Elite logs out of e-university
A complete rethink of the government's proposed e-university risks repeating the problems of the University for Industry. Plans for an elite core of institutions to lead the project - unveiled as...
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ILA message not getting through
* The government has been accused of baffling students and college heads over individual learning accounts after ministers admitted that there had been problems with the new service. Phil Willis, the...