Don's Diary
Monday To the Netherlands, with good friend and colleague Dr Donna, to speak at the "Global Conference on Language and Literacy" at the University of Utrecht. Travel in the university car - a 2-litre...
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Over there and over everything
(Photograph) - English plastered over a hoarding in east Berlin. Some academics think such linguistic colonisation betrays a lack of confidence in German
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Sting RAE
In the last few months of the year, publishers tend to put next year's date on new books. Academics mindful of the need for 2000 publications for the research assessment exercise might like to check...
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A double dose of digital drivel
Internet scholars are stuck in the past while the public plays with the future, argues David Gauntlett Before the mid-1990s, academics knew everything about the internet. No wonder: they ran it. It...
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Warwick opens door for grants
Labour peer and vice-chancellors' chief Diana Warwick admitted this week that the abolition of maintenance grants had damaged efforts to widen participation in higher education by the poor. She made...
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Scholarship students arrive from Malaysia
* Sixty Malaysians will arrive at British universities next month, mostly for postgraduate studies, under the Chevening programme. A further 16 will continue in their second or third year of study...
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Shefc celebrates funding boost
Scottish finance minister Jack McConnell has increased the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's budget from Pounds 609.4 million in 2000-01 to Pounds 697.6 million in 2003-04 - an increase in...
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V-c's widow wins damages from ICI
(Photograph) - The widow of Sir Gordon Beveridge (pictured), former vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, has won Pounds 295,000 damages following Sir Gordon's death from the incurable...
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AUT president loses battle with cancer
David Green, president of the Association of University Teachers, has died, aged 48, of cancer just 14 days into his presidency. Dr Green studied mathematics at Imperial College and completed his MSc...
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Bank funds bursaries for Edinburgh students
Edinburgh University has won almost Pounds 250,000 from the Royal Bank of Scotland to help support entrants from state schools or colleges. The private-public partnership allows Edinburgh to offer 50...
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Artists start inaugural MRC residency
Artists Nicola Perry and Zarina Bhimji are spending a month as the first artists in residence at the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research. The scheme is intended to...
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Collaboration leads to marine science degree
The Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory at Oban has strengthened its links with the University of the Highlands and Islands project and the Scottish Association for Marine Science by collaborating on the...
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Further education comes under review
Further education leaders have joined forces with lecturers' unions and an independent research company to conduct the sector's first national review of staffing and pay. The project, supported by...
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HK conglomerate funds cancer research unit
Cambridge University has accepted a Pounds 16.5 million donation from Hong Kong multinational conglomerate Hutchinson Whampoa. The money will be used to build a cancer research centre on the...
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Natfhe seeks peace talks with Derby
Leaders of lecturers' union Natfhe have called for an "away-day" meeting with Derby University managers in an effort to patch up relations damaged by fresh disputes over management style. Natfhe has...