Dark side answers call
Pity poor Owen Davies, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Hertfordshire. After advertising on his website that he "would be happy to hear from anyone interested in the academic study...
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City's publicity blitz
The fire that destroyed a third of City University's century-old campus in May this year also ravaged the university's reputation. "Fire destroys City University" trumpeted reports around the globe....
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Good selling pints
Good news for Lancashire - the 2002 Good Pub Guide has found that it offers the cheapest beer in the land. Beer costs an average £1.68 in Lancashire, 24p below the national average. At the University...
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No time for pleasantries
The staff at the Institute for Learning and Teaching are a friendly lot - if a bit misguided. The institute's publications officer recently contacted more than 550 people on its mailing list,...
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The world did not change
Lessons that might have been learnt from September 11 have been lost on the US, writes Tom Palaima
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Don's Diary
Week one I fly to Dublin for the annual Political Marketing Conference of the Academy of Marketing at the Dublin City University Business School. We find out that the Californian referendum business...
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Eyewitness
As part of the process of European Union accession, the Slovak Roma's stake in European society is being reinforced by non-governmental agencies that want them to play a more central role in Slovakia...
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Flexible friend for when time is not on our side
When we set up the Advisory Centre for Education in a room in a Cambridge backstreet, I was naive enough to think that Cambridge University would be happy to foster the world's first Open University...
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Why I... think the bombing should stop and the talking should commence
I have met the man who helped open the latest tragic chapter in Afghanistan's history. Osama bin Laden used to come to my office in Peshawar in the late 1980s to ask me if I could help him import...
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Tongues truly tied
Freedom of speech is being eroded and academics are complicit in its demise, argues Dennis Hayes. The university is the institutional embodiment of faith in the power of reason. It is a place set...
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It's a no-knowledge economy
In its pursuit of UK plc, the government is undermining intellectual endeavour, writes Paul Taylor. While politicians struggle to deal with the problems caused by the threats of anthrax and the...
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For the record
Gloucestershire joins the university ranks England's first new university in a decade was created this week as the Privy Council confirmed that it had awarded the title to Cheltenham and Gloucester...
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Ireland braces itself for skills dearth as number of school-leavers falls
Ireland's universities and technical institutes face a 25 per cent drop in the number of school-leavers over the next 15 years, an expert has said. Don Thornhill, chairman of the Higher Education...
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Women behaving badly for the good
Lisa Jardine chairs a discussion between Fay Weldon and Elaine Showalter on the women's movement - past, present and future. Karen Gold listens in Lisa Jardine: Can you remember, Fay, when you...
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How to make the old dinosaurs sing and dance to the tune and dance to the tune of the new-girl network
Gender barriers are denying many women promotion in academia. Helen Hague asks what is being done? It is really quite touching. A 56-year-old male professor is exasperated by atalented female staff...