EU to fast-track visas for non-European scholars
The European Commission is about to issue a directive to introduce accelerated visa clearance for researchers from countries outside the European Union and from the candidate states that will join...
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Harvard waives the fees for low earners
Harvard University has announced that families with incomes below $40,000 (£21,400) will no longer have to contribute towards their children's tuition, as middle-class anger over the cost of...
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Why we should welcome an influx from overseas
Don't be alarmed by a big rise in the number of EU students coming to Britain. The benefits far outweigh the costs, says Libby Aston The UK is by far the most popular study destination for European...
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Martin Ince
'Blair, Schroder, Chirac and their lesser kin seem to do deals in a manner that Louis XIV or Charles II would have understood immediately' The Baroque era can teach us a thing or two about how to...
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Striking ideas
Descriptions of various forms of picket line have been reaching The Diary after last week's strike by the Association of University Teachers. Plans by three Heriot-Watt academics to picket a small...
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A dress me as professor
Germany's most famous drag queen has been made an honorary professor at the University of Hamburg. Oliver Knöbel, better known in Germany as drag queen Olivia Jones, will teach queer theory in the...
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The root of all happiness
Each month, the Annals of Improbable Research selects a report worthy of closer scrutiny. The Diary is pleased to bring you this month's choice: Does Money Matter? Older People's Views of their...
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Students take a dim view
Following the recent update on how many students it takes to change a light bulb comes evidence that some don't undertake such tasks. Students at the University of Bristol last week issued a press...
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Don's diary: Knocking some Cents into US Education
Nowadays, serving as a dean in a US public university is rapidly becoming less about working within a community of scholars and more of a constant attempt to attract additional fiscal support. Sounds...
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Why I...think France has given up on culture
Bruce Begout - Philosophy lecturer University of Picardie Amiens, France Is the government of French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin leading a war against culture or intelligence in France, as...
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Virtue from necessity
Worried about cuts in your grant allocations? It may be no bad thing, says David Wallace It all used to seem so simple. The university got a block grant for teaching and research, and distributed it...
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Wide of mark on participation
The HE bill must strengthen non-traditional routes into higher education, says Geoff Layer Whatever finally happens with the government's higher education bill, it is in danger of missing an...
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Correction
The number of staff earning between £70,000 and £99,999 at Anglia Polytechnic University (Vice-chancellor and top academic pay 2002-03 table, February 20) was four, not 36.
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Today's news
Call for full retraction of study linking MMR to autism MPs are to demand that the editor of The Lancet explain why he issued only a "partial" retraction of the paper that implied a link between MMR...
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"I/A" Item Note: Adoption of a Council Decision Concerning the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (link)
Brussels, 04 Mar 2004 Full text of Document 5870/04 Suite of documents 5870/04 No. Cion prop.: 13692/03 Subject: Adoption of a Council Decision concerning the conclusion, on behalf of the European...