Don's Diary
Friday. Arrive Jan Smuts, Johannesburg at breakfast time to 70 degrees of sunshine, quickly blighted by the realisation I am short of one bag. Relieved to say that at least the suitcase carrying the...
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Dismissal of one in five staff attacked as 'illegal'
The legality of dismissals of one in five of Hungary's academics and other higher education staff is escalating into a constitutional crisis after conflicting findings by the courts and the ombudsman...
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Dean resigns
The dean of the troubled Southampton Solent campus based in Athens, Veroni Papatzimou, has resigned. Her decision precedes a ballot of all staff working for Southampton Institute, which runs the...
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VAT shock for staff vacancy ads
Universities and colleges are facing a bill for millions of pounds following the removal of VAT exemption on the cost of staff recruitment adverts. City financial consultants estimate that some large...
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Wales set for EU techno drive
Europe's first regional blueprint for technological development was unveiled in Wales this week by the principality's secretary of state William Hague. Wales is one of four European regions (the...
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...Years of work go up in smoke
Aisling Irwin looks at the aftermath of the Ariane V explosion. Space scientists and plasma physicists were yesterday counting the cost of the exploded Cluster mission in terms of seriously damaged...
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Cold war thaw fuels Arctic study
The thaw in the cold war has led to pioneering glaciology research in the Russian Arctic that aims to produce better predictions of the effects of global warming. The centre for glaciology at the...
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Anti-cuts strike closes campuses
Universities across ߣߣÊÓƵ faced their worst collective disruption in memory last week as thousands of staff and students went on strike for 24 hours over the prospect of savage cuts in federal...
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Labour'spoor plan
I write in response to Bryan Davies's recent letter (THES, May 31) responding to your comments on Labour's proposals for the "reform" of student maintenance. It is interesting that he objects to your...
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Nolan report tale contains a sting
"Nothing in this report points to any fundamental malaise in any of the sectors we have examined. But there is, and will continue to be, a tension between the management-driven and output-related...
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Over-reaction is the right reaction to risky business
The correct reaction to the controversy over potentially contaminated baby milk is over-reaction, such as the withdrawal of all relevant products from sale, a risk expert said this week, writes...
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Vote on BAT chair
Cambridge University's decision to accept Pounds 1.6 million from tobacco giant BAT Industries for an international relations professorship is to be put to the vote of the 3,000 dons. The vice...
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Er... er... er ... choo!
The Antithesis prize ... well, er accolade ... for the most inventive and charming invitation to art and design degree shows this year so far goes to Camberwell College of Arts, part of the London...
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Peace studies: PLO leader Yasser Arafat
(Photograph) - Peace studies: PLO leader Yasser Arafat addressed the Oxford Union this week, attracting the biggest audience of the year so far. He reserved judgement on Binyamin Netanyahu, who won...
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'The feeling is one of great shock and disbelief and a lot of despair'
Four celebration cakes in honour of the four Cluster satellites lay uncut at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory's launch party in Oxford on Tuesday. The 200 guests had watched a live screening of the...