Don's diary
Monday 6am flight from Glasgow to London. Arrive early. By 9am I am watching a band drilling in the crisp, bright air at Horse Guards Parade. Retreat into the Royal Society for the Aventis science...
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A game of three terms
At the end of the day, the delights of the Northeast and the prospect of studying at one of its seats of learning may not be enough for prospective MA students from Indonesia. So, along with the...
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Returns to Oxbridge
Just months after its arrival in power, Labour was threatening to slash Oxbridge college fees and muttering about the unfairness of institutions with richer-than-average alumni. Now, as Oxford has...
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A serious honour
After her ordeal at the hands of an alleged stalker last week, Germaine Greer will perhaps find comfort in the fact that she is the only academic to appear in a list of "women we admire most"...
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In the news
Describing Labour's selection procedure to choose its candidate for London mayor, Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at the London School of Economics, said it was "messy and...
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On the move
Chris Ham, director of the health services management centre at Birmingham University, is joining a new strategy unit set up to advise ministers on the future direction of the National Health Service...
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Glittering prizes
The English Association today inaugurates the Fellowship of the English Association, honouring service to English in education.Founding fellows: Eric Anderson, Lincoln College, Oxford; Malcom Andrew...
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Eyewitness
London's new mayor will be able to look to a variety of European cities as he considers his approach to the post. One obvious example is Italy, which opted for directly-elected mayors in 1993. Simon...
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The challenges of change
Morocco is attempting to reform its education system to pull the country into the global economy. Hassan Bouzidi considers the hurdles Consider the following. More than half of Morocco's population...
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Quito
Representatives of the national federation of university students at Quito's Universidad Central del Ecuador have handed over 11 buses seized by student demonstrators on condition that local police...
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Kara
The director-general of Unesco, Koichiro Matsuura, has laid the foundation stone of a new university in the northern town of Kara about 500 kilometres from Lome, capital of Togo. Ampa Johnson, vice-...
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Overhaul awakens 'apartheid' anxieties
South Africa's undergraduate degrees are to be lengthened to four years and split into two sets of two-year courses under radical proposals drafted by the Council on Higher Education. Universities...
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Every beat of her heart
(Photograph) - Gladys Knight, whose three children attended the University of San Diego, is to be awarded an honorary doctorate by the university later this month. But she will appear minus the Pips...
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NZ cools to market forces
New Zealand's new Labour/Alliance coalition government has fulfilled its pre-election promise to set up a commission to advise on a strategic direction for higher education, but it has moved to block...
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Tenure challenged by private university
Four years after publishing a book that stoked debate on Canadian universities, Peter Emberley has further fanned the flames by accepting a private university job, where he is speaking out against...