In the news: Gordon McVie
Canvassing cancer research staff at the University of Nottingham, which last year accepted funding from British American Tobacco, has placed Gordon McVie, director general of the Cancer Research...
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On the move
Colin Bell , vice-chancellor of the University of Bradford, has been appointed principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Stirling from September. Roger Brown , principal of the Southampton...
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Don's Diary
Monday Fly to Luxor: goodbye cold, wet Britain. Tuesday Final preparations for the Eastern Desert survey. As always, Ancient World Tours have the logistics well in hand. Our team of volunteers -...
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Net speaks your speak
The language of the internet generation has entered Ulster-Scots. Earlier this month, the University of Ulster and the Ulster-Scots Agency opened the world's first Institute of Ulster-Scots Studies....
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Moooving achievement
Scottish nursing degrees appear to be taking an increasingly specialist approach to potential health crises. A suburban Glasgow paper reports that a former local pupil "has graduated with a BSE in...
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Reflected glory
Make way, philosopher-footballer Eric Cantona, for rugby legend Francois Pienaar. Receiving an honorary degree from the University of Herfordshire last month, Pienaar marked the occasion by quoting...
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Sensitive issues
Pop star Michael Jackson has accepted his long-standing invitation to address the Oxford Union. Mr Jackson will use the occasion, on March 6, to launch Heal the Kids with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach,...
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Of babies and bathwater
Europe's rush to mass education has not been matched with money or clear policies, Sheldon Rothblatt writes. I recently asked some European colleagues, all in the social sciences and mostly...
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World watch
Toronto Universities in Ontario are facing problems in recruiting enough academics to accommodate a double cohort of high-school graduates in 2003-04 despite an injection of C$660 million (£300...
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Eyewitness: Galapagos giant tortoise kidnap
A dramatic confrontation between conservationists and fishing interests in one of the world's most sensitive environments ended last month. The Ecuadorean government effectively traded an increased...
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Oz turns its back on cyber institute
A former Hawaii-based distance education provider that claimed to be Australia's third private university has failed a federal education department assessment. Greenwich University was established on...
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Campus aides in union victory
After a 30-year battle, graduate students who work as teaching assistants at private American universities have won the right to unionise. Their win has vast ramifications for higher education. The...
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Police close in on alleged $2m loan fraud
A man arrested by Canadian police in connection with an alleged C$2 million (£893,000) student loan fraud is to appear in court later this month. More arrests are expected in connection with the...
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Legacy of racist South mars Georgia's civil rights birthday
This month marks the anniversary of a civil rights milestone at the University of Georgia. Forty years ago, a student slipped into the administration building of a United States university to...
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Fear for Italy's tenure reform
Rectors fear that much-needed university reform legislation before the Italian parliament will fall victim to May's general elections. In particular, rectors are keen to see changes to academic...