Nuisance caller
John Hutton was reminiscing on his appointment as health minister as he launched the University of the National Health Service's development plan last week. He was visiting a secure psychiatric...
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Blistering price of work
The following is a cautionary tale for male academics working long hours on their laptops. A letter to The Lancet last week told of how a 50-year-old scientist burnt his penis after spending an hour...
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Dead funny
Graveyards have become a recurring theme at presentations attended by The Diary of late. Jon Baldwin, registrar of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, told delegates at...
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Price of fame
Is BBC1's Fame Academy seeking to trade on the image of London Metropolitan University? The talent show's logo bears a remarkable similarity to the university's one. Moreover, the series, which has...
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Why I...believe Gordon Brown is right to criticise university management
University top dogs have been scolded. Barbara Woodhouse-like fingers are being pointed at vice-chancellors, who stand accused of bad planning and bad management. Some will counterattack by pointing...
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Payment on results
The Australian model of learn now, pay later, could be the UK's ideal solution, says Bruce Chapman In Australia in the late 1980s, university students were not required to pay for tuition. But this...
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Make way for the 'multiversity'
The future of post-16 learning lies in a hybrid mix of further and higher education, argues David Melville Universities and further education colleges have much in common. Their agendas include...
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Bid to get women back into science
One in five science, engineering and technology posts should be held by a woman by 2005. At present, fewer than one in eight SET professors is female and in some engineering disciplines the figure...
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New Cambridge v-c faces reforms storm
Yale University provost Alison Richard was on the verge of accepting the vice-chancellor's job at Cambridge University this week, although plans to beef up the prestigious post with executive-style...
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Brown announces cash boost for science and innovation
There is to be a major review of government support for innovation, designed to boost British science, skills and entrepreneurship. The announcement, made in chancellor Gordon Brown's pre-budget...
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Whistleblowers: Trent withdraws from ESE validation deal
Nottingham Trent University has decided to end its partnership with the European School of Economics, almost six months after an investigation by The THES found that staff at the private business...
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Go-ahead for corporate degrees
Private businesses would be encouraged to award their own degrees in direct competition with traditional universities under a government shake-up to be announced in the new year. A senior source at...
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In the news: Gaston Caperton
If higher education minister Margaret Hodge was expecting a bureaucrat of the type that habitually heads British exam boards when she met the chief executive of America's College Board this week, she...
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Refuseniks snub call to vet foreign students
A hard core of academics is resisting attempts to recruit their help in vetting and monitoring foreign scientists. Twenty-four students from "countries of concern" have been turned away by UK...
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Appointments
Adrian Smith , principal of Queen Mary, University of London, has been named chairman of a government inquiry into mathematics from the age of 14. Professor Smith, a recent president of the Royal...