No O level, lots of nous
Lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks was in confessional mood at Natfhe's annual conference last week, admitting that he had reached his elevated government post in spite of failing an O level in...
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The elitists exposed
Recent performance indicators published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England show Oxford and Cambridge clearly lagging behind in the proportion of young full-time first-degree entrants...
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Bristol's Dimmock MA
Charlie Dimmock has a lot to answer for. The University of Bristol has seized on the television-fuelled public demand for everything greenfingered by offering a new master of arts in garden history....
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On the move
Michael Grade, chief executive of First Leisure Corporation and former chief executive of Channel Four, is to hold the first chair of television production at the National Film and Television School...
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Glittering prizes
Golfers Seve Ballesteros and Colin Montgomerie will receive honorary degrees of doctor of laws from the University of St Andrews in July. Warwick University is to award honorary degrees to: Baroness...
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In the news
Change is afoot in the post-16 inspection regime - always a worrying time for those involved. But Stephen Grix, 43, the man responsible, recently appointed head of Ofsted's post-compulsory education...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Enjoy catching up on the week's newspapers - they are full of scandal on the selling of exam scripts in the law faculty at Charles. As a colleague points out, on an average salary of Pounds...
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Paris
Philippe Meirieu has resigned as head of France's National Institute of Pedagogical Research. Mr Meirieu was appointed by former minister for education and research Claude All gre to renovate the...
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Turin
The rector of Turin University, the dean of its medical school and a hospital doctor have been accused of a breach of professional secrecy and of violation of privacy after a student with HIV and...
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Lome
The vice-chancellor of the Universite de Lome has been ordered to expel 50 Angolan students said by the Angolan government to be diamond dealers acting for Jonas Savimbi's Unita opposition group....
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A poor way forward for SA
South Africa's v-cs have good cause to reject a proposed restructuring of higher education, writes David Woods South Africa's vice-chancellors have unanimously rejected proposals from the Council on...
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Eye witness
Australian prime minister John Howard's refusal to apologise to the indigenous community for injustices caused during more than 200 years of white occupation has triggered demands from academic and...
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Jobless PhD-holders threaten to go on hunger strike
More than 200 unemployed PhD-holders have held a protest outside the office of the Jordanian prime minister for more than a month. They say they will go on hunger strike soon if there is no...
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Wealthy Harvard to lose president
Harvard president Neil Rudenstine has announced his resignation after helping America's top university to raise $2.6 billion (Pounds 1.7 billion) during an otherwise largely uneventful nine years as...
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Tax raises fears about student debt
Australia's goods and services tax, due to be implemented on July 1, will add A$300 million (Pounds 115 million) a year to the debt that university students incur under the Higher Education...