College leavers untaxed by jobs
More than half of Northern Ireland graduates feel that their skills and talents are underused in the province's business and industry and that local employers do not help develop their skills,...
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Promotion farrago
How does Cambridge University decide who to promote to one of the tiny number of esteemed personal professorships each year? Judging by a transcript of a taped formal feedback session given to a now-...
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Footprints show UK is trailing US
British chemical engineers are falling behind their US counterparts in carrying out leading-edge work, according to a new method of analysing citations of papers. And it seems the research assessment...
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Good practice makes perfect
High-profile blunders and a wary public have led to calls for more guidance for professionals. Claire Sanders reports Professionals are under fire from the public and the government. The bodies that...
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Dentists open for lifelong lessons
The General Dental Council is the statutory regulatory body of the UK dental profession. It is responsible for overseeing educational and professional standards. Dentists who fail to meet these can...
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Don's Diary
Monday After ten years of lecturing, spending a year as a Bar student was always going to be an odd experience. The course has certainly provided the insight into legal practice, life outside academe...
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Birds and the baroness
When Baroness Blackstone agreed to swap jobs for the morning with Joyce Taylor, chief executive of the Discovery Channel, to mark yesterday's Learning at Work Day, she was probably unaware of a song...
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New page 3 figures
Thanks to the students' news-paper in Sheffield for drawing our attention to an interesting innovation by their counterparts in Cambridge. The Cambridge Student, recently started by the Cambridge...
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Cereal branders
Frank Pignatelli, chief executive of the Scottish University for Industry, has been outlining to the Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee the difference between the SUfI...
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Another new arrival
How sweet. The Quality Support Centre announced this week it had changed its name. From now on it will be known as the more "neutral" Centre for Higher Education Research and Information. Neutral...
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In the news
Steve Martin knows how important his new job as chief executive of the Welsh further and higher education funding councils is, and he thinks everyone else should know too. He is struck by how little...
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On the move
David Bridges, pro vice-chancellor and professor of education at the University of East Anglia, has been appointed the first executive director of the new Association of Universities of the Eastern...
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Glittering prizes
Astronomer Patrick Moore is to receive a special millennial award from the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society in recognition of his unique contribution to astronomy. Sam Beer, Eaton professor...
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Eyewitness
More than 50 years after the second world war, bitter arguments over the facts and distortions of the history of Nazi Germany continue. In Moscow, the first public exhibition of documents and relics...
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Florence
A professor arrested in 1997 for passing students in exchange for luxury household goods has received a two-year suspended sentence on condition that he returns silver, crystal and porcelain valued...