Racism is 'endemic' in sector
Higher education is "institutionally racist", according to the United Kingdom's first professor of social justice, writes Phil Baty. Hull University's Gary Craig said in his inaugural lecture this...
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Analysis: What keeps a student home?
Claire Sanders reports on how fear of debt has forced more students to live at home, and THES correspondents (below) explore support schemes outside the UK. Between 1997 and 1999, there was a 40 per...
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Whistleblowers
Senior don leaves LIPA 'This week Paul Kleiman told staff he was no longer able to respect the "abilities, qualities and values of those who purport to lead" LIPA' Another senior figure has quit the...
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Glittering prizes
Birkbeck College, London , has awarded fellowships to: Richard Evans , professor of modern history at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Gonville and Caius College; Peter Mortimore , a former...
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And God had no funding
Old Testament expert Alastair Hunter of Glasgow University's divinity faculty gave scripture a new spin at last week's Association of University Teachers' Scottish council. He described how Adam's...
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V-cs' feast turns famine
Vice-chancellors were tempted to consider such cannibalism at this week's meeting of the International Universities Presidents' Forum in Cardiff. After a drinks reception, they sat down to dinner but...
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Driven to drink by QAA
The Quality Assurance Agency might claim to represent the interests of students when it inspects the quality of teaching in the country's universities. An incident last week, however, demonstrated...
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High-rise washing line
Possibly the most distressing Comic Relief fundraising event last week was that organised by the University of Wolverhampton. It took pairs of pants from local people and hoisted them from the crane...
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Don's Diary
Monday Earlier start to feed sheep, allowing for the ritual of disinfecting and showering. Leave foot-and-mouth epicentre of the South-west to hear second reading of hunting bill in the Lords. Attend...
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In the news: Helen Aspell
Helen Aspell, who is challenging the incumbent Owain James for the National Union of Students presidency, looks set to put up a tough fight. Next week's national conference in Blackpool will be the...
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On the move
The University of Wales Institute, Cardiff , has promoted the following to professorship: David Botterill , director of research and enterprise at the Welsh School of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure...
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World View: Support frontline scholars
As violence again racks the Balkans, academics in Macedonia and the former Soviet bloc need our intellectual and scientific aid, writes Tim Unwin. Tension in the air was palpable as my flight from...
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World watch
Brussels Macedonia's unofficial Albanian-taught University of Tetovo is to receive an additional e5 million (£3.1 million) from the European Union. EU foreign ministers called on ethnic-Albanian...
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Eyewitness: Putin forces pace in new spy mania
The chill of Russia's new information security doctrine is being felt in a regional capital outside Moscow, where Igor Sutyagin, a researcher who specialised in arms control issues at Moscow's USA-...
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Quality control agency delayed
Delays in appointments to the governing board of Australia's new University Quality Agency have put back the timetable for audits to begin by several months. The first audits were due to start this...