ICT brokerage event: Trieste, Italy
Brussels, 19 Jun 2003 An international brokerage event on information and communications technology (ICT) will take place on 15 July in Trieste, Italy. 'TriCo Trieste 2003' is aimed at fostering...
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Brokerage event showcases R&D achievements of ACP countries
Brussels, 19 Jun 2003 A brokerage event to promote the research achievements of the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP), will take on 11 and 12 July in Osoppo, Italy. The event is part of...
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New Man lives on Planet Beckham
Footballing icon David Beckham has dramatically redefined the working-class man's sense of identity, a worldwide meeting of sociologists heard this week. And his life on what lecturer John Harris has...
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Today's papers
Oxford's superiority over 'poly' is history Oxford University is reforming its history department after inspectors ranked it beneath its rival at the city's former polytechnic, Oxford Brookes...
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Camerino
Ezio Capizzano, 67, a former law professor at the University of Camerino, is to stand trial for rape, corruption and embezzlement after allegedly awarding female students high marks in exchange for...
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Abuja
Nigeria's federal ministry of education will not take up a$101 million (£60.6 million) World Bank loan negotiated ten years ago to connect universities on the internet after the bank refused a...
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Tehran
Students in the Iranian capital are seeking permission to mark next month's anniversary of the 1999 riots with a "free speech" march from Tehran University to the parliament. The state news agency...
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Too many graduates? The market disagrees
As higher education has expanded, so has demand for degree holders, say Peter Elias and Kate Purcell Are graduates taking over areas of work that were previously the domain of non-graduates? If so,...
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Harry Kroto
With access to inspirational science and maths teachers restricted, the internet could make quality instruction into a universal currency The "developed" nations are easily recognised. They are the...
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Hot talent and creative cool
It's that time of year when design students nationwide unveil their weird and wonderful inventions. Coventry University student Jane Aukim has devised a pie holder that protects football fans from...
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Pedal for your porridge
Southampton's higher education institutions this week clubbed together to encourage more people to cycle to work. To induce the change, they are today offering cycling staff a free breakfast with...
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Making a meal of maths
For those of you who have spent the past week counting sheep - or, rather, trying to find the answer to the maths problem posed to school pupils in this year's UK maths challenge - The Diary has the...
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Honour with operatic overtones
Congratulations to Bryan Davies, ex-chairman of the defunct Further Education Funding Council and a former Labour Party spokesman on higher education. Mr Davies was appointed "Commander of the Queen'...
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Don's diary: reading the scars of last ice age
Tuesday I am sitting in a tiny submarine at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico peering out at a menagerie of deep-sea creatures. Aboard the research ship 650m above me are a dozen students on a deep-...
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A violent reaction
Coverage offers former National Front member undue public standing, argues Paul Mackney I am frankly astonished that The THES should have given front-page coverage with a colour photo to Patrick...