How the future began
Jonathan Weiner surveys the advances today's thinkers anticipate by 2099 Tibetan diviners emptied their minds and stared into lakes, mirrors, the flaming wicks of lamps, or the balls of their thumbs...
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I've got no energy, doctor
The public may fear nuclear power, but this week energy expert Ian Fells will demand new power stations in Britain. Kam Patel reports on the scientists ridiculing Labour's energy policy On the train...
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Multi-ethnic labour pangs
Kosovo is starting to build its own university system, but can it heal the wounds of war, asks Lynn Davies There is a feeling of rebirth amid the neglect and destruction of Kosovo, but the labour...
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World watch
Hundreds of University of Khartoum students have organised peaceful protests calling for talks between the Sudanese government and opposition groups to end the 20-year civil war in the south. Some...
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World watch
Moscow's brightest and best female students were urged to compete for the title "Miss Universitet" in a Moscow State University-backed beauty contest last week.
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World watch
Sixty thousand applications were received for polytechnic places in Malaysia this year. The government response was to expand the intake from 11,000 to 18,000 and to establish two new polytechnics in...
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What is a don for?
Dear smug Noel (Annan) ("A tale of cauliflower and King's", THES, October 15). I cannot forget being interviewed by him (and rejected) for a place at King's. I was pretty obviously an under-...
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Don's diary
Wednesday Programme three of the BBC television series on the Royal College of Art went out last night. Emails and faxes, exchanges with staff who saw themselves in the background and wished they'd...
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The THES Diary
Big people, small talk Stars of the academic industrial complex were out in force in Cambridge for Monday's SmithKline Beecham lecture in the Judge Institute. The lecture was followed by dinner in...
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In the news
News that higher education quality expert Geoffrey Alderman is leaving for the United States early next year will spark conflicting emotions in the sector. The historian and head of quality assurance...
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On the move
David Caldwell, secretary of Robert Gordon University, has been appointed to the new title of director of the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals. He replaces Ronald Crawford, the...
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Glittering prizes
University College Chichester has awarded an honorary doctorate of science to Christine Keltel-Kreidt, a professor at the Freie Universitat Berlin and chair of the International Mathematics...
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Eyewitness
As Romano Prodi's "wise men" prepared to release their report on a strengthened and enlarged European Union, a less-publicised forum gathered in Weimar, Germany. Weimar was chosen for the most recent...
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World watch
Canada's universities have been given enough funds to create 1,200 research posts and an additional 800 research chairs to stem the brain drain across all disciplines.
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Bruce Charlton argued academics should sabotage the Teaching Quality Assessment exercise Aidan Foster-Carter Hon senior research fellow in sociology and modern Korea Leeds...