Business brothers 'beyond reproach'
There is a remarkably cosy family atmosphere at Cardiff Business School. Nigel Piercy, professor of marketing and strategy at the business school, works closely with his wife, senior research...
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Don's diary
Friday. The Marxism Today seminar is convening at the Rentokil Training Centre in Surrey. The facade is country house, but inside is decidedly postmodern. After supper we congregate in the large...
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Profile of the week
The shining morning face of schoolboy John Randall, now chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency, would have met from time to time Chris Woodhead, chief inspector of schools and fellow pupil...
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On the move
Sir Gareth Roberts, 58, vice-chancellor of the University of Sheffield, has been appointed president of the Institute of Physics for two years from October, succeeding Brian Manley. The following...
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Glittering prizes
Doreen Massey, 54, professor of geography at the Open University, has won the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize. She is the first female geographer to receive the honour since it was set up...
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The THES Diary
Addicted to the match Vice-chancellors and higher education minister Baroness Blackstone got a rare taste of student life when they stayed in halls of residence at Manchester University for their...
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Eye witness
Bangladesh's devastating floods may be receding, but they leave in their wake a greater problem - ensuring a safe water supply for the largely rural population. Health problems linked to polluted...
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Milan
ߣߣÊÓƵn physicist Sir Robert May has won a prize of 500,000 Swiss francs (Pounds 214,000) from the Italo-Swiss International Balzan Foundation. Sir Robert, chief scientific advisor to the British...
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Nairobi
University medical schools in eastern and southern Africa are in the process of revising their pharmacy degree programmes with assistance from the World Health Organisation. The new undergraduate...
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Angry minority withdraws support
Demands by ethnic Hungarians in Romania for an independent university have been fuelled by the new Hungarian government's emphasis on the needs of Hungarian communities beyond its frontier. Romania...
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Appeal for freedom from military administrators
Pressure is mounting on Nigeria's new military head of state to scrap the posts of sole administrator - the government appointees who have replaced vice-chancellors at five universities. Before...
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Labor is hailed as saviour of education
ߣߣÊÓƵ's academics, vice-chancellors and students have welcomed the Labor Party's education programme, calling it a marked contrast to the conservative government's record on education spending....
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Indian tribes given bones for reburial
When the University of Nebraska agreed to return remains it held of more than 1,700 American Indians to 15 tribes, the move received widespread public support. After all, the university had been...
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Parties promise cash bonanza
If politicians' promises were anything to go by, Germany's higher education and research institutions could expect to be swimming in funds after next Sunday's general election, whichever party or...
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European Academic Software Award 1998 winners
Cut! Cinema studies. University of Stockholm. Chemvisu. Chemistry. University of Fribourg, Switzerland. http://sgich1. unifr.ch/ CHEMvisu.html Elm-Art. Computer science.Padagogishe Hochschule...