Nouakchott
Several students suspected of complicity in an attempted military coup in Mauritania have been arrested and face trial.
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Kuala Lumpur
Deputy prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has denied that a new university admissions system designed to ensure a fairer representation of Malaysia's Chinese and Indian population has had the...
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Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan president Saparmurat Niazov is trying to prevent students from travelling abroad for their education, fearing that foreign universities could become a hotbed of Turkmen dissent. A new...
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Inspire your students to blow their own trumpet
Ever questioned why some undergraduates fail? It's all down to a lack of confidence, insists Christopher Ball Most students get degrees. A few fail. Why? The question arises even more insistently in...
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Alison Wolf
Male-female differences will influence success in certain degrees. We should look deeper than statistics to examine bias Back in the late 1980s, I nearly fell out permanently with a close friend and...
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Today's news
Aids vaccine hope as scientists map antibody The search for an Aids vaccine took an important step forward yesterday when scientists said that they had mapped the structure of an antibody that can...
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Och aye the morn
An international conference at St Andrews University this weekend on "Violence, Culture and Identity" seems determined to go beyond the academic into the realm of the practical. On both Saturday and...
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Making a clean sweep of Harry
With the latest Harry Potter initially selling at 500 copies a second, it's a comfort to know that the English funding council cannot be far behind. Its latest publication is a 100-page tome on...
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Bottoms up, Christine!
Spotted in Yorkshire last week were Christine and Neil Hamilton, attending a University of York Wine Society reception, after Christine - who graduated from York - agreed to be patron of the society...
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Randall does himself justice
After policing standards in higher education and enforcing rough justice, former quality boss John Randall has moved on to a fitting new role. He has been appointed chair of the Justice Sector Skills...
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OU scores an own goal
The Open University is cashing in on David Beckham's transfer to Real Madrid by offering free places for him and his wife on its new beginners' Spanish course. The Diary wonders whether this is wise...
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Thoroughly modernized
Who says Cambridge University is stuck in the past, unable to shake off hundreds of years of good old British tradition? Oh no, the university has put all that behind it and is embracing the 21st...
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Don's diary: Forging a tradition, Not following in one
March: Monday First day on the job as principal of Queen Margaret University College. Why am I here? My career has been spent in large, research-intensive, well-endowed, self-confident and...
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Don't pulp the past
The British Library may be short of space but destroying rare material is untenable, says Richard Grove This story begins in the Australian National Library in Canberra in March 2002. "No," the...
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EU grass greener and cleaner
Andrew Jordan says the green lobby should push the environmental virtues of the EU Of all the main political groupings in Britain today, the environmental movement has one of the strongest reasons to...