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Dundee University researcher Nigel Brockton last week broke the British speed skiing record in the Red Rock French ski championships in Les Arc. Dr Brockton, who achieved a speed of 235.19kph (146....
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Councils' new blood
New blood was injected into the research councils last week. Science minister Lord Sainbury appointed to the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council: Howard Dalton, chief scientific...
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Detour for auditors
A reader has contacted The Diary to report that staff at Coventry University have been asked not to submit travel claims where the mileage ends in a zero. Apparently, the auditors assume that if you...
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Who's sex bomb don?
A guessing game was under way at Lincoln University this week after an article appeared in FHM magazine featuring a female student in a series of raunchy poses. "Do you fancy any of your university...
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Bruce for Scots college
Congratulations Vicki Bruce, deputy principal for research at Stirling University, who was this week appointed head of the first of the University of Edinburgh's three new American-style colleges....
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Academic world should be smart and boycott
European scholars need to act now to support Zimbabwean academic freedom, says Karen MacGregor Events in the Middle East have pushed Zimbabwe from the consciousness of the world. But, as the regime...
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A crime not to unlock potential
Offenders are not of low academic ability, argues Joe Baden, and deserve more than basic skills training
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Autopsy of a scandal
The crisis over retained organs has had a devastating effect on pathology, says John Lilleyman The retained organs affair began with the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry and the discovery that...
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Why I... think we need to help students read those long novels
Colleagues often say they despair of getting students to read an entire novel in a foreign language. Germinal in the original? Forget it. In English and history too, it seems, students are now more...
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Today's news
UK academic plays key role in Middle East peace deal Dr Andrew Coyle, director of the International Centre for Prison Studies at King's College, London, is overseeing the detention of six...
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Update: 12:30
Wendy Alexander resigns Scottish cabinet post Enterprise, transport and lifelong-learning minister Wendy Alexander resigned from the Scottish cabinet today. In a letter to first minister Jack...
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Treasury set to grab back £90 million
Higher education will be stung for an extra £90 million next year because of chancellor Gordon Brown's hike in employers' national insurance contributions, it emerged this week. The Department for...
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Blair blasted for broken promises
The Labour government has "totally ignored" further and higher education in its first five years in power, the Liberal Democrats said this week, writes Alan Thomson. Education spokesman Phil Willis...
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Next week
News Cutting edge: training surgeons in the new National Health Service. Features Richard Weight discusses the changing face of patriotism in Britain, Alex Haslam answers critics of The Experiment...
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Enrolment figures recover
Some 1,700 school-leavers entered higher education this year along with 64,800 21 to 24-year-olds, according to data published this week by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. It marks the...