Mr Blair’s former breathless lover will form the fully staffed Gordon and Sarah Brown Foundation, paid for by lucrative speaking engagements, which the Spectator revealed some weeks ago. He has accepted three pro-bono appointments - joining Queen Rania of Jordan’s Global Campaign for Education, working on a new programme to bring the internet to Africa and joining the board of Tim Bern...

This week I am working from our offices at the High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa – job shadowing. I am working with Russ Dixon and his team. Just one day in the Pretoria office gives you an idea of just how hard these guys work. The amount of work they do and the number of programmes they whizz through in a day make you realise just how much work we in Harare would be able to do if we we...

contribution by Michael Collins There are three vital points to make on Lord Browne’s report on higher education. First, there is a growing sense of unease in academic circles about what the Browne report’s plans to increase undergraduate tuition fees by almost six thousand pounds per year will mean. More specifically, how will a marketised

You know, the way that it’s all done over the internet from Australia? PICS PLEASE New dinosaur discovered in South Africa Scientists in South Africa have hailed the discovery of a huge new dinosaur, Aardonyx celestae, that predates the giants of the Jurassic period. Hmm, still a few teething problems, eh?

The A-Level pass rate has risen for the 28th successive year. Debasing the coinage. It's what governments do....

Gordon Brown is to devote time to unpaid education and internet projects, his spokesman says.

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George Monbiot begins a banker-bashing article in the Guardian with these words, If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. Inevitable result? That is a lot to ask, in Africa or anywhere. If in most of Africa in the last half-century the probable, or, Dear God, the permitted, result of the hard work and enterprise of women - or me...

Outline of CISCO work on Higher Education

Leaders of the "real" and "virtual" worlds will meet, en masse, for the first time in northern France today. At the G8 world economic summit in Deauville in Normandy, the future of the internet will join the Arab Spring, Africa and nuclear safety as an official "problem" on the agenda of the most powerful men, and women, on earth.