Don's Diary
Saturday Johannesburg airport. The plane is packed with community health workers jaunting off to consider poverty issues. If it fell, most of Southern Africa's leading brains on community health...
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Glittering prizes
Jonathon Porritt is to receive an honorary degree of doctor of science from the University of the West of England in recognition of his contribution to environmental science and to the public...
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On the move
Leszek (Les) Borysiewicz , head of medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine, has been appointed principal of Imperial College School of Medicine from February, succeeding Christopher...
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Iron lady breaks mould
Murmurs of dissent are expected next Tuesday at the Political Studies Association's 50th Anniversary Awards Ceremony, when a special "Breaking the Mould" award is made to Baroness Thatcher. Indeed,...
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Latest UK news
Blair stands up for science Tony Blair made an “unashamedly pro-science” speech to the Biotechnology Industry Conference in London today. He declared that he would not let the United Kingdom slip...
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Solving vote farce
Absentee postal votes are still eligible to be counted until today in Florida, the state that has proved crucial in the race for the US presidency, even though the election was held almost two weeks...
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Clothing firm taken to the cleaners
The Ivy League group of American universities has won a trademark dispute with a New Zealand company over the use of the term for a line of clothing. In January, Patent Office New Zealand ruled that...
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Japanese firm links with Scot spin-off
A leading Japanese drugs company has signed a £5.2 million deal with Scottish Biomedical, the company set up by leading Scottish universities to promote research in the medical sciences. Kyorin...
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Tool to catch net copycats
Student coursework will soon be subjected to routine electronic screening in an effort by universities to stamp out plagiarism. Software from the United States, which claims to be able to detect work...
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A tale of hard times that is worthy of Dickens
Changes to subject reviews will see institutions ceding academic autonomy to the QAA, warns Stephen Court Hard times have fallen on higher education. No, this is not a whinge about money. It is to...
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Funds must help people go further - not just higher
A short while ago, by the standards of human history, a degree would have been useless for the bulk of the population. The economy, and the jobs in it, could use only a few people with the high-level...
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Readers' reactions: email snooping
Last week in The THES .... Simon Davies argued that email snooping would turn universities into wired Dickensian workhouses I am surprised that Simon Davies regards the Regulation of Investigatory...
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Rising debt hits access efforts
Government plans to widen participation in higher education suffered a blow this week as figures showed that spiralling student debt is deterring the poor and disadvantaged. For the second year...
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Tehran: students support reforms
More than 1,000 students demonstrated at Tehran University this week in support of pro-democracy reforms. Despite attempts by non-student hardliners to disrupt the gathering, it ended without...
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Ann Arbor: student dies on birthday bash
A University of Michigan engineering student died after celebrating his 21st birthday with 20 shots of scotch in ten minutes, police said.