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Perhaps booksellers should be advised to read some of the titles they sell. Amazon is currently offering the textbook Decision Analysis for Management Judgment - described as showing "how difficult...
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Trials of cheap Aids vaccine under way Scientists starting a new phase of trials on a revolutionary Aids vaccine have started injecting 26 British volunteers with the treatment. The Medical Research...
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Sign for the times
The University of North London and London Guildhall University are forking out thousands of pounds on a new logo. Fishburn Hedges, which has been appointed to "create an identity for the soon-to-be-...
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Admissions U-turn
The Pembroke College "cash for places" scandal has had an interesting effect on Oxford West MP Evan Harris. John Platt, the former college chaplain and a good friend of Dr Harris, resigned last week...
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Open any hours?
Is there anyone there? Far from being the business-minded institutions that universities like to be portrayed as, it transpires that many cannot even manage to answer the phone during normal working...
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Homework rules
Meanwhile, keeping to working hours threatens a mutinous response at the University of Central England. A new code of practice for working at home has been drawn up. More information must now be...
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New Reading v-c
Congratulations to Gordon Marshall, who has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Reading. Professor Marshall, who is currently chief executive of the Economic and Social Research...
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Female Scots principal
Joan Stringer, principal of Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University College, will become Scotland's first female university principal in January when she succeeds John Mavor at Napier University....
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Get label conscious
The UK must keep an eye on plans to establish global quality regimes, says Peter Williams Perhaps it was inevitable. Before the globalisation of higher education has got much beyond the experimental...
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Top talent does not come cheap
The key issue of v-cs' pay is not size but performance and accountability, according to Walter Greaves. Philip Love argued in The THES (March 22) that properly paid staff at all levels are necessary...
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Why I...think bad management, not lack of cash, puts off would-be science PhDs
There are many explanations as to why the number of science PhD students is declining in this country. The government has sought to bolster numbers by raising stipends to quite sizeable amounts, but...
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ESA's X-ray space telescope proves supernova can cause mysterious gamma-ray bursts
Paris, 04 April 2002 Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions ever detected in the Universe. They are also one of the greatest mysteries of modern astronomy, since so far no clear evidence...
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ESA workshop to examine space technology for robotics
Brussels, 04 April 2002 ASTRA 2002, the seventh European space agency (ESA) workshop on 'Advanced space technologies for robotics and automation,' will take place from 19 to 21 November 2002 at the...
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Donation flood in US set to turn to drought
Despite the recession and the diversion of philanthropy to post-September 11 relief efforts, universities and colleges in the United States managed to raise a record amount in donations last year....
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Peace activists get trapped in Ramallah
A British student was injured and up to 12 were trapped this week by Israeli forces in the West Bank town of Ramallah. The students were members of a group of activists who entered refugee camps in...