Any advance on Pounds 22.5 billion?
Paul Klemperer tells Karl Sabbagh how academics made the government a lot of cash by devising a telecoms auction. For me, economics has always seemed a bit like meteorology. When economists get it...
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I have a good mind to help
Can a philosopher help you decide whether to buy a car or get divorced? Ayala Ochert reports on the professors who, for a small fee, will help sort out your problems. Do you have a problem at work?...
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Gambling studies
Michael Cain of Salford University set up his degree in business economics with gambling studies three years ago "because a consortium of people from the gambling industry came to see us and...
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Perfumery
Tony Curtis spent 25 years as a research chemist in the perfume industry, but now teaches a BA in the business of perfumery at Plymouth University. The business-based course includes such specialised...
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It's Homer... but not as we know it
The Simpsons, Star Trek and surfing - universities have come under fire for teaching unconventional subjects. But, as Anne Sebba reports, employers are snapping up graduates from these courses. Come...
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Double your money
Review books, write obituaries and get yourself an agent.John Sutherland tells low-paid arts academics how to earn an extra few thousand by moonlighting. I have often thought that instead of name-...
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Stone Age discovery
Marine archaeologists have discovered a Stone Age realm sunk beneath the Solent. Evidence of human habitation was excavated last week from under a drowned oak forest of fallen tree trunks and stumps...
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V-cs want to show visitors the door
Vice-chancellors have suggested scrapping the ancient visitor system in favour of a higher education ombudsman. This would usher in a uniform system of dealing with student complaints and appeals in...
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Labour MPs turn on the chancellor
Members of the education select committee have condemned Treasury plans for substantial cuts to university spending in the week in which the government promised "opportunity for all". Gordon Marsden...
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Don's diary
Monday. Saba looms into view, rising like a jagged green shark's tooth from the deep blue of the Caribbean. Our tiny Windward Island Air- ways plane bounces through a steep descent, its wingtips...
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Chimbote
Several hundred Peruvian students were arrested after they held the campus at the Universidad Nacional del Santa in Chimbote under siege for a day in protest at the re-election of president Alberto...
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Petaling Jaya
Ethnic groups in Malaysia have again questioned the fairness of quotas that favour Malay students' entry to local universities over Chinese and Indian students with better A-level grades.
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26 on shortlist for new humanities centres
The Arts and Humanities Research Board has announced a shortlist of 26 applications for its new scheme of research centres. It will fund new or existing centres to undertake strategically important...
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Quebec
Twenty-seven students were injured after they drank vending machine coffee laced with arsenic at Laval University in Quebec City. Animal rights extremists are suspected, because the machine is...
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Cash incentive boosts trainee teachers
Teacher training applications have increased by 32 per cent since last year, following the government's announcement that postgraduate trainees will be paid Pounds 6,000 from September. Estelle...