Analysis: Arts and design put on a good RAE show
Creative subjects have started to focus on research. Caroline Davis reports. Funding chiefs have already revealed that half the staff returned in this year's research assessment exercise work in...
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Analysis: You've got to be loud and proud
In an era of increased competition, image is everything and the university that rests on its laurels is destined to lose out. Alison Utley reports. Image is all in the modern university. Parents,...
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Vintage Tuscans blend skill
Wine and wine-making are an inalienable part of Tuscan culture and the three largest universities in the region - Florence, Siena and Pisa - have joined forces to set up a "wine university". The...
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OECD finds it pays to graduate
An objective measure of the economic and social value of a degree across the developed world has been devised by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. It is to publish a...
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EU researcher mobility scheme had 'conflicts of interest'
The European Union's financial watchdog has criticised the EU's Training and Mobility of Researchers Programme. It claims that procedures for the awarding of grants have been too lax, risking "...
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Oz aids remote learners
A project involving the University of Papua New Guinea and Charles Sturt University in New South Wales has received a A$770,000 (£282,000) federal contract to provide distance-education courses for...
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News in brief
Beijing Universities and colleges in China enrolled more than 2.6 million freshmen this year, 800,000 more than last year. The most popular fields of study were science and engineering and liberal...
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Russia in row over reheated 'secrets'
A treason case brought against a physicist who signed a 10 million rouble (£240,000) contract to sell satellite technology to the Chinese has highlighted the risks impoverished Russian scientists run...
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Berlin woos young spooks
Prospects for graduate employment in Germany may be bleak as the economy slides into recession, but one employer is busy hiring: the German spy service. The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is trawling...
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Students find gold in dropouts
Enterprising students have turned a failure of the German higher education system into an e-business success: they have set up a website to help student dropouts. The site offers more than sympathy...
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In the news: Bob Fryer
Bob Fryer's appointment as chief executive designate of the National Health Service University this week seems appropriate. Professor Fryer, director of the University of Southampton New College, has...
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Just £332m to raise
The Diary extends a warm welcome to Sir Anthony Cleaver, who has been appointed chairman of UK e-Universities Worldwide, the new name for the e-University. Sir Anthony, a major collector of public...
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A first kiss with Laurie
Poet Roger McGough last week revealed the identity of the person with whom he shared his first kiss. Step forward Laurie Taylor, the man who brought you Professor Lapping, his long-suffering...
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Better than Beckham
Congratulations to the 13 new Royal Society Wolfson research merit award winners, announced yesterday. Launching the scheme to boost the pay of top researchers, Bob May, then chief scientific adviser...
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Memory of Maggie
Sir Alan Langlands, principal of Dundee University and former chief executive of the National Health Service in England, told last week's Scottish knowledge transfer conference that former prime...