Historians row over Tasmanian invasion
Australian historians are gearing up for a legal battle arising from claims that Tasmanian Aborigines and early British settlers did not engage in a war that ended with the near-extinction of the...
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Colombia is loaned $200m to boost HE
The World Bank has approved a $200 million loan (£125 million) to help the Colombian higher education system. The money should boost student numbers, especially from poorer social groups, and improve...
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UN inspectors investigate Iraqi universities
United Nations weapons inspectors are investigating the nature and extent of links between Iraqi universities and Saddam Hussein's alleged continued development of banned weapons of mass destruction...
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The poor don't buy flimsy money-back guarantees
The economic returns of a degree often quoted by ministers are misleading and liable to be disbelieved, says Libby Aston The higher income that graduates earn through their working lives is...
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Alison Wolf
Sixth-form and undergraduate studies have always been symbiotic, so whay are they not more integrated? For much of 2002, the front pages were dominated by two stories: A-level marking and university...
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Dakar
More than 500 Gabonese students who have not been paid government allowances for five months occupied their country's embassy in Senegal's capital and held four diplomats hostage.
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New York
Stephen Greenblatt, professor of the humanities at Harvard University and outgoing president of the Modern Language Association of America, wants academics to buy more of each others' books and set...
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Don's diary: child migrants' search for justice
Saturday New Orleans is a city waiting for night. It is not only the streetcars that are named desire - the entire French Quarter dissolves into jazz, blues and sex. Sit on the balcony. Below a...
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Pipe dream or pear-shaped future?
Tradition demands that The Diary's new year message outlines the shape of higher education for the coming year. This year, given the imminent release of the government's strategy paper, we are...
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Why I think the RAE review needs to go back to basics
Former research director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and member of the social policy and social work panel for the 2001 research assessment exercise The research assessment exercise in its...
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Free up our enterprise
Want strong, solvent universities? Cut their dependence on the public purse, says Patrick Dowling The government wishes to establish a sound financial framework for our universities. Lowering the...
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Banda Aceh
Imprisoned Scottish-born academic Lesley McCulloch has begun a hunger strike after her US friend Joy Lee Sadler was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
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Your course can be a real corker
When it comes to constructing a course, universities should chuck out the chintz and make the design clear, stimulating and satisfying, writes Paul Kleiman. Universities are idiosyncratic...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching in higher education? Our new column asks teachers how they manage . Name: Frank Griffith Age: 43 Job title: Jazz and popular music lecturer Job description: I...
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Top teachers go private
A cycle of educational advantage whereby privately taught pupils go to top universities, gain good degrees and return to teach in independent schools has been revealed in a survey. The survey,...