A booming business
Higher education in the UK was earning more four years ago than the British computer manufacturing, plastics or office equipment industries. A report that the vice-chancellors will use to back their...
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Strings on pay cash angers Oz
Greek Cypriot students wave Greek flags at a checkpoint dividing the island during a protest to mark the anniversary of the declaration of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The island has been...
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Spanish rector's power struggle splits his staff
A Spanish university is considering amending its statutes to allow its rector to seek a third term of office. Staff at La Coruna University are divided over the campaign to allow Jose Luis Meilan to...
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Knowledge is strength
"In the next century, the engine of growth will be the process through which can economy creates, applies and extracts value from knowledge." So said Charles Leadbeater of Demos, allegedly Tony Blair...
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Don's diary
Saturday Several key staff come in to make final preparations for their teaching quality assessment. Seek final statistics on 1999 student entry. Secretary asks: "Do you want sex?" then collapses...
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Mayor be not
One wonders who is responsible for strategic decision-making at the Association of MBAs, which recently announced a new speaker for its annual dinner. The event, usually held this month, had to be...
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Religion of two halves
The Scottish football team's defeat at Hampden Park, compounded by a victory at Wembley that still excluded it from the European cup, could leave many distraught supporters turning to God. So it was...
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A shadowy presence
Sharp diary eyes were alerted by a press release from "Liberal Democrat shadow department for education and employment secretary Phil Willis". Surely the term "shadow" can only apply to Conservative...
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Some talk ain't cheap
Glasgow University's John Dunn, reporting in the staff newsletter on the latest senate meeting, reveals that senators "levelled the most fearsome of accusations with a courtesy, a graciousness and a...
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On the move
Gordon Marshall, fellow in sociology at Nuffield College, Oxford, has been appointed chief executive and deputy chairman of the Economic and Social Research Council. He will succeed Ronald Amann on...
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Glittering prizes
The Wiener Library, London, has awarded Robert Moeller the 1999 Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History for his work War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany. Till...
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Eyewitness
Ten years ago, the Berlin Wall was breached. A week later came the Czech and Slovak "Velvet Revolution". Central and Eastern Europe, soon joined by states of the defunct Soviet Union, embarked on...
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Coimbra
The main library and archives of Portugal's Coimbra University were closed after library staff complained of headaches, difficulty breathing and fatigue at work. Toxic substances used during a...
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Perth
The jailing of two students in Singapore for consuming cannabis at an end-of-exams party in Perth could damage Australia's image in Asia, according to Curtin University deputy vice-chancellor John...
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IT 'underclass' fears
The boom in multimedia-based training may be creating an underclass of workers who cannot cope with technology-based training, according to a survey. The survey of 180 personnel directors working in...