Great idea, but what's in it for us?
The government says regional development agencies will be the engines of enterprise. However, as Tony Tysome explains, the advantages for higher education are unclear and rather unexciting Chancellor...
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Don's Diary
Monday A weekend in Potsdam at the Australien Zentrum. End with a mystical experience - climbing the ramp inside the transparent dome of Sir Norman Foster's reinvigorated Reichstag with the lights of...
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The short of it
The death of Grace Archer is nothing to this. Recent goings on in Ambridge have kept lecturers on tenterhooks. The radio soap has introduced a Canadian academic recently employed at the local...
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Clever enough for uni?
No one ever said choosing a university or college was easy. But things must be desperate. In a raid on a book distribution warehouse thieves ignored thousands of pounds worth of electronic equipment...
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Good cod! You're sexy
A queasy academic from the University of North London contacts the diary after dining in the university's training restaurant on "aphrodisiac day". On the menu: oysters, asparagus and cod. Cod? Not a...
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Lager rout
Serious research has been taking place at the University of Ulster into finding the perfect pint of Guinness and it seems a breakthrough is on the way. Helpfully the university provides details and...
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Officially broke
A nasty shock was in store for one student employed by Southampton University to ring up alumni and touch them for a tenner or two. After a polite greeting to one alumnus, the student launched into...
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Charles Vest
Charles Vest calls his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology "the room we rent from MGM". Its wood-panelled elegance with river view is just the setting a film-maker might expect for a...
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New Academicians
Founder academicians elected to the new Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences are: John Alderson, retired chief constable of Devon and Cornwall; Ron Amann, director general, Centre for...
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Eyewitness
An organic farm in Reading is practical teaching small groups of Ugandan students about sustainable agriculture, with the aim of weaning them off chemicals and re-introducing traditional methods. The...
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Wind of change in Aegean
Although there are now more university places and opportunities for mature students, Greek education still has a way to go, says Katharine Sarikakis Instead of fees, more free places for higher...
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Chechnya
Chechen fighters are demanding a ransom of $2 million for two Polish academics who disappeared while doing fieldwork in Dagestan in August. In a letter that reached Poland earlier this month, Zofia...
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Kuala Terengganu
Malaysia's student union has advised members to report teachers with anti-government sympathies to employers. Syed Anuar Syed Mohamad, leader of the Federation of Peninsula Malay Students, said...
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Victims of a killer storm
Most people with epilepsy live normal lives, controlling their condition with drugs. But for 400 a year death can occur suddenly and inexplicably. A Pounds 220,000 study will now try to discover why...
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Doctorates: why so many give up
Numbers of doctoral candidates are increasing - but so are drop-out rates. What factors determine success and failure at this level? Steve Dinham and Catherine Scott did a study to find out There has...