Cosmic newcomers
Tense moments at the International Astronomical Union general assembly in Manchester this week when three planet hunters revealed their hands after a round of cosmic poker. First to the table was...
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Country curiosities
Tim Relf, writing in Farmers Weekly, has produced a handy guide to avoid misunderstandings between farmers and students seeking vacation work. What students say and what they mean: "I've a wide range...
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Diggers get dirty
The irritation that archaeologists feel at Channel 4's Time Team has spilled onto the net. A website hosted by Edinburgh com-pany, Backtrack Archaeology, urges action. "You are the Upper Chigley...
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Eyewitness
Organised crime in the former Soviet Union has moved into archaeology - excavating sites in Crimea. Gold looted from Scythian graves is being sold illicitly to antique dealers in the local capital,...
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Moscow
About 200 students from the Central African Republic, who held their country's Moscow embassy staff hostage in protest against the failure to honour a promise of air tickets home for the summer...
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Bogota
Jaime Nino Diez, rector of the Universidad Aut"noma de Colombia, announced a switch next year to a new system of evaluation based on "qualitative assessment". But he said the autonomous status of the...
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Beijing
Universities from China's richer eastern regions are sending thousands of volunteer graduates to help develop the country's poorer western provinces. Rich universities such as Nankai and Tianjin are...
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Courses-for-all principle is failing
More than 3,000 students who passed their baccalaureat in the Ile-de-France region will not find a university place until September. A lack of space has yet again created bottlenecks for popular...
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Minister says UK tarred by Derby affair
Mismanagement of a multimillion-pound Israeli operation by the University of Derby has damaged the reputation and interests of United Kingdom higher education, a minister has declared after a...
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Paper pulp is defended
The British Library has defended its decision to dispose of nearly 10 per cent of its historic newspaper collection, after opponents described the space-saving plan as vandalism. Approximately 60,000...
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Principal and academic director suspended in college inquiry
The investigation into financial irregularities at Bretton Hall moved up a gear this week with the suspension of principal and chief executive Gordon Bell and academic director Ron George. The...
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Rewrite demanded for Viz-style guide to survival
Liverpool University's Guild of Students has been asked to amend a Viz-style information leaflet for freshers, after local councillors complained that it did not reflect the city's real issues,...
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Scots in spin over delay to results
Scottish higher education admissions staff were facing turmoil this week as a result of the Scottish Qualifications Authority's delay in issuing applicants' Higher examination results. This year's...
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Subjects and benefits
It is a sad state of affairs that Madsen Pirie feels it necessary to explain that 5 per cent means "one in 20". Or was this an interpolation by a copy editor with an accurate assessment of The THES...
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Talk of funding recall
Funding chiefs are debating whether to launch an investigation into claims that the University of Sheffield's School of East Asian studies unjustly improved its rating in the 1996 research assessment...