Trust resubmits genome site bid
The Wellcome Trust has resubmitted its failed application to extend its genome campus at Hinxton Hall, Cambridge. The scaled-down proposal would see a development just over half the size of the...
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Animators lack digital know-how
Universities' failure to train students in software packages used in the animation and special-effects industry is threatening their ability to find jobs when they graduate. The tension between...
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France reforms training of health professionals
Trainee nurses, midwives, physiotherapists and pharmacists will study alongside medical students following reforms that will progressively introduce a common first year of studies for all health...
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Research institute to probe rare diseases
France has a new institute to develop research into thousands of diseases, each of which affects only a few people, writes Jane Marshall. The institute "without walls" was launched by research...
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Calls for Turkish minister to resign
Turkey's education minister is to be the subject of a parliamentary inquiry over allegations of discrimination against religious students at the country's universities. A motion centres on a ban on...
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Germany 'needs graduates'
Germany is producing too few university graduates to manage the transition to a knowledge-based service economy, according to a report by the influential German Institute for Economics (IW). In 1998...
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Makerere denies Gaddafi a degree
A standoff between state and academia in Uganda over a proposed honorary degree for Muammar Gaddafi has ended with a rebuff for the Libyan president from Makerere University's senate. Ugandan...
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Germans bid to rebuild Kabul
Kabul University is beginning the difficult task of rebuilding after being destroyed, literally and figuratively, by decades of war, despite a lack of basic infrastructure, including water,...
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McGill forms venture company to fund spin-offs
McGill University has formed a private company with neighbouring universities and hospitals to get more discoveries out into the marketplace. McGill, Universite de Sherbrooke, their research...
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South Korea to boost female faculty numbers
South Korea's national and private universities will be expected to fill at least 20 per cent of faculty posts with female professors under equal employment policies to be implemented this July....
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In the news: Mike Dexter
Mike Dexter has turned down a two-year extension as director of the Wellcome Trust, and he will step down at the end of his five-year appointment next March. His directorship has been a busy time for...
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Don's diary: paddling in paradise
Saturday Having recently completed a Winston Churchill Fellowship, which involved travelling around the Pacific Rim researching the possibilities of including disabled people in Outrigger canoe...
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End of an unreal dream
A complaint from a woman featured in an advertising campaign for the New York lottery has forced the DDB Worldwide advertising agency to alter 58 billboards, The Wall Street Journal reported last...
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The obscure welcomed
The hunt for the world's least-read journal continues. Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research and co-sponsor with The THES of the search, reports that many people have sent him...
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Bollywood at Brunel
Anxious to inform, The Diary this week brings you three things you never knew about Brunel University. It was the film setting for Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange . It has been used in a number...