'Chase up loans to stop unrest'
Business leaders in Swaziland are calling on the Government to pursue the repayment of student loans from graduates to fund bursaries for new students and prevent more unrest. Lindiwe Dlamini, an...
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Australia set to blaze new trail
Australia's Government hopes that its new research quality framework will be a worldwide pioneer in the measurement of research impact. The framework, announced late last month by Julie...
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Talent hunt to target minorities
A federal chairs programme that helped reverse Canada's brain drain has to change the way it recruits its "world leaders". The Canada Research Chairs programme, which since its inception in 2000 has...
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Grande école staff quit in protest over director
The Ecole Normale Superieure, one of France's most prestigious grandes écoles , is in turmoil after about 15 senior academics resigned as a protest against the school's director. The resignations,...
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Colleges in Israel see rise
Some of Israel's colleges are experiencing a dramatic increase in the number of students registering this year while university enrolments have fallen 1.3 per cent, according to the country's chief...
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'Let us drive development'
ACU to tell ministers how universities can lead revival in Africa, writes David Jobbins Commonwealth education ministers will later this month hear how universities can drive economic and social...
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Don't downgrade solid foundations for success
Allowing colleges to award two-year degrees could harm a still maturing qualification, says Drummond Bone The Further Education and Training Bill, which receives its second reading in the House of...
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst: it's glasshouse party season
Four Seasons Festival - winter Oxford University Botanic Garden One of the many pleasures of the BBC's Planet Earth series has been each episode's coda, which sets out to explain how particular...
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Not such a clean sheet after all
Sir David King, the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser and climate-change guru, left an almost indelible mark on Imperial College London, Sir Richard Sykes, the rector, told the audience of the...
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Can't keep collegiality down
John Hood, Oxford University's beleaguered vice-chancellor, failed to push ahead with his plans to expand the number of external members of the university's Council last week. And it appears...
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Is this list a liability?
Attentive readers of Peep's Diary may recall that when Elly Rothnie, events manager at Aberdeen University, was listed as 30th most eligible woman in Scotland last year, she said that ranking would...
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We're a Triumph
If we are to hold our own in the 21st century, we should take a lesson from Google and YouTube, argues Stephen Heppell The UK has a knack of losing wonderful assets. No sooner do we have something...
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Answers to planet's ills are out of this world
As Earth struggles with climate change and overcrowding, Charles Cockell recommends we look to the final frontier The ongoing exploits of two tiny rovers on the surface of Mars seem like an...
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Just can't tune out Irritate FM
The train doesn't always take the strain, finds Kevin Fong, after enduring an ear-splitting mobile conversation all the way home I'm on the train, on the way back from Liverpool. I got to the station...
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Don't let a bald pate throw you
Harriet Swain says employers must tread carefully as the new discrimination regulations kick in, especially when it comes to making assumptions about people's age based solely on what they look like...