Unity urged to prevent another Alder Hey
Universities and their National Health Service partners in medical education and research must set up joint planning bodies and appraisal schemes if they are to avoid another body parts scandal such...
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Task force set to blitz regulation
Cabinet Office enforcers are likely to recommend sweeping reforms of the way universities are regulated. The Better Regulation Task Force is to investigate the cost and effectiveness of the...
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Don's Diary
Sunday A two-page spread in the Sunday Herald rehearses every cliché about the Mercury Music Prize known to rock criticism, dismissing Susheela Raman's Salt Rain as "tokenistic". Music writers, it...
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In the news: David Rendel
He was described by The Times 's political sketch writer as tall, dignified and faintly grand. If anything has held back David Rendel, Liberal Democrat spokesman on higher education, it is his...
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Moving time chez Colin
As new Oxford University students move in with their guitars, teddy bears and posters of Travis next month, vice-chancellor Colin Lucas will be doing something similar. The university has purchased a...
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At your service
While some students are making do with campbeds and sleeping bags, those attending the private Regent's College, which includes the European Business School and the British American College in London...
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Chiefly a student
Southampton geography student Daniel Brown went to the Volta region of Ghana to help an African village to build a library. Now he is about to become the village chief for a night. He is also booked...
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Sticky tribute
Kent Institute of Art and Design has presented a sculpture to Jemima Dury, daughter of the late frontman of Ian Dury and the Blockheads, as a gesture of thanks for agreeing to have one of its new...
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Glittering prizes
Umberto Eco , professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, has received an honorary doctorate from the Open University at a ceremony in Brussels. Wynne Harlen , retired director of the...
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On the move
Drummond Bone , principal of Royal Holloway, University of London, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool . He will succeed Philip Love next September. Derec Llwyd Morgan...
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Eyewitness: IMF bails out Argentina
Argentina's government this month obtained International Monetary Fund approval for $8 billion (£5.5 billion) in emergency funding to help service a mounting debt of $130 billion. It marks Argentina'...
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Six billion unheard voices
Whatever its failings, the racism conference in Durban should at least teach us to listen. Anybody who followed the proceedings of the Durban World Conference on racism was given serious cause to...
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Agony aunt
Q What are the advantages of throwing students in at the deep end with a problem to help them learn? A We are thrown in at the deep end of life and work with problems to solve. In higher education we...
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Rejected lecturer is suing Toronto
The British researcher whose firm job offer was rescinded after he alleged in a lecture there was a link between Prozac and suicide has issued a lawsuit against the University of Toronto and one of...
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Australia minus maths equals big problem
Australia will have no mathematicians working in its universities by 2012 if trends continue, a report by the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering suggests. The country is experiencing a...