Loose language
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: "Sars transmission: language and droplet production",...
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Reading expenses
A Montreal business has been busted for selling an illegal product popular with many students - illegally photocopied textbooks. Bailiffs swooped on bookshop U Compute, near Concordia University, and...
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Why I...believe university pay needs to reflect performance
Pay management in higher education is clinging to tradition. Sadly, tradition here means that men tend to be paid more than women, that long service is valued above ability and results, and that...
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Best not to kill bill
Labour's plan may not be perfect but it is the sector's best hope in years, says Robert Stevens We all know that over the past 20 years the average payment per student in English universities has...
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Only new breed will save planet
Conservationists must learn to work in concrete and equatorial jungles, says Richard Ladle. We are entering a critical period for life on our small blue planet. According to an international study...
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Lack of medical lecturers threatens NHS salvation
Government plans to improve healthcare in the UK are in jeopardy after the latest figures revealed that there may be too few medical lecturers to teach the next generation of doctors. The number of...
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Luton set to lay off 100 staff
Luton University will lose about 100 staff - more than 10 per cent of its total - through compulsory and voluntary redundancies, it emerged this week. Twenty-two academics and 12 support staff have...
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MRC pays to support youth
The Medical Research Council has made the first of a raft of potential changes to its much-criticised funding system. It has announced a commitment of almost £5 million for individual project grants...
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Are you a first aider or a last rites type of person?
Without petroleum jelly in your desk drawer, you're just not ready for that civil disaster at work, says Valerie Atkinson Now that the possibility of apocalyptic war has been so radically diminished...
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Jobwatch: Beating a retirement Bulge
As more staff reach their 60s, institutions face the dilemma of whether to replace old for promising new staff or to attract RAE point-scorers with professorships and salaries to match. Pat Leon...
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Who got that job?
Sarah Holmes , 33 Clinical Director for the School of Professionals Complementary to Dentistry Portsmouth Institute of Medicine, Health and Social Care £52,640 - £68,505 pro rata Job advertised in...
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Learn the lingo and let the net set you free
Students need a guiding hand to get the most out of cyberchat. Gwyneth Hughes and Lynda Lewis believe e-mentors are the way forward. Some students quickly become comfortable with learning in...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name : Jude Davies Age : 38 Job : Senior lecturer in the School of Cultural Studies, King Alfred's College, Winchester...
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Today's news
Top-up fees won't mean more cash, say dons Dons at Cambridge are urging a rethink of the university’s bursary scheme after calculating that it could end up absorbing almost all its income from top-up...
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Commission calls for a boost in basic research
Brussels, 15 January 2004 Today in Brussels European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin presented the EU blueprint on basic research. The Communication on "Europe and fundamental research"...