Taken at their word
Wags at the Quality Assurance Agency have discovered the worldwide web's anagram site and enjoyed a little wordplay. Hence "the research assessment exercise", becomes "cheers! merest existence...
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Just another statistic
Never let it be said that the National Union of Students has its finger off the pulse. In a week when he had to deal with the aftermath of Cubie and a submission to the government select committee on...
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On the move
Sir John Knebs, Royal Society research professor in the University of Oxford's zoology department, has been appointed chairman of the new Food Standards Agency. Chief executive will be Geoffrey...
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Glittering prizes
Bhikhu Parekh, professor of political theory at the University of Hull, was given the BBC's special lifetime achievement award in the Asian Success, Innovation and Achievement Awards for 1999. The...
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Correction
In the New Year's Honours, Andrew Wiles received a KBE not an OBE as we said last week. Omitted from our list were: Sally Kuenssberg, a part time lecturer at the University of Glasgow, who received a...
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Royal family feud delays democracy for Tonga
As a new millennium dawned over the small states of the western Pacific, King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga appointed a new prime minister - his younger son Prince Ulukalala Lavaka Ata. The king...
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Brussels
The European Commission is to spend E94.8 million (Pounds 59.7 million) on 753 employment training projects across the European Union and in eastern Europe under its Leonardo da Vinci programme. The...
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Berlin
German education minister Edelgard Bulmahn wants to double the number of women professors to 20 per cent by the year 2005. She has launched a E31 million (Pounds 20 million) project to increase the...
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Genoa
A professor of heart surgery has been awarded more than E1.3 million (Pounds 800,000) in damages by an appeal court in Genoa against the Tuscan hospital of Massa for unfair dismissal in 1976. Gaetano...
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Storm as project is refused funding
ZERMATT Researchers at five of Switzerland's top universities are furious that the Swiss research funding authority has refused support for an ambitious inter-university project to investigate links...
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A contribution to Kosovo's reconstruction
A return to Kosovo before Christmas for seminars on student union democratisation at the University of Pristina provided the opportunity to deliver a state-of-the-art computer, printer and...
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Tiny chips pose big problem
A Glasgow University expert in computer simulation could help to solve the semiconductor industry's predicted miniaturisation problems. Asen Asenov heads the world-ranking Device Modelling Group in...
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Consortium eyes up technology centres
NEW DELHI A private consortium has offered to take over India's five elite institutes of technology. The consortium has written to prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee suggesting that the future of...
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Scent of success
(Photograph) - Scent of success: sisters Shilipi and Payal Sangraika from Bombay, whose father owns a perfumery business, are taking a degree in the formulation of perfumery at the University of...
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French set up business masters by internet
PARIS A masters in international business management conducted entirely on the internet has been set up by the University of Picardy Jules-Verne in Amiens, France. The course in management of...