Politically active Montreal students managed to distract almost 200 freshers from the usually inebriating and unconcerned fresher activities for first-year students last week with an alternative...
Simon Lee has spent most of the past decade fighting to keep the word "university" in the title of his institution. Having recently won the battle to keep the name Liverpool Hope University College,...
Tuesday Setting off for an expert meeting on backpacking, I find, despite my supposed expertise in the subject, that I am overloaded. Every time I travel, I swear I will travel lighter next time. The...
The Diary is pleased to announce the results of the competition to name the train that Universities UK was due to charter to transport vice-chancellors to its conference next week. The winning entry...
More entries have arrived in the search for the most outstandingly obscure academic journal. Suggestions include the Journal of Memetics , which contains a paper titled "The six essentials? Minimal...
An interesting extra event is scheduled to take place at next week's science festival in Leicester. The British Association is advertising a talk called "The price of progress? Cashing in on the...
The Diary wonders how many essays former lecturer Elizabeth Hall had to write to raise the sum she paid to her former employer this week. Ms Hall, who runs a business selling essays to students, is...
Students in the US need never worry that someone is interfering with their wash after the launch of a cyberlaundry service. The eSuds system uses washers and dryers linked to the internet to allow...
Tory students at the University of Sheffield have an unusual approach to recruiting freshers. On the university's website, Richard Clough, the former president of Conservative Future Sheffield,...
Sherlock Holmes, Robin Hood and James Bond are among the best-known Britons in Russia, according to a poll of Russian students conducted by the British Council. While royalty and politicians...
As HIV/Aids sweeps through Africa, many universities are acting as if it is business as usual, writes Alan Whiteside. HIV is probably the most studied virus of all time. Since it was identified,...
We are cool, Conservatives to tell students Iain Duncan Smith is to lead the Conservative Party on a βlive and unplugged tourβ of Britainβs universities. Shadow ministers will try to persuade...
One of Oxford's top historians, who is poised to leave for the US, has criticised the "naive egalitarian assumptions" made about higher education funding in the UK. Niall Ferguson, professor of...
The most beautiful experiment in physics involves passing single electrons through a double slit in a demonstration of quantum mechanics. Readers of the magazine Physics World and the website...
The BP Conservation Programme, which supports student-led field projects around the world, is to treble the amount of funding it makes available, writes Steve Farrar. The scheme, which is inviting...