Don's diary
Wednesday Programme three of the BBC television series on the Royal College of Art went out last night. Emails and faxes, exchanges with staff who saw themselves in the background and wished they'd...
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The THES Diary
Big people, small talk Stars of the academic industrial complex were out in force in Cambridge for Monday's SmithKline Beecham lecture in the Judge Institute. The lecture was followed by dinner in...
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In the news
News that higher education quality expert Geoffrey Alderman is leaving for the United States early next year will spark conflicting emotions in the sector. The historian and head of quality assurance...
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On the move
David Caldwell, secretary of Robert Gordon University, has been appointed to the new title of director of the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals. He replaces Ronald Crawford, the...
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Glittering prizes
University College Chichester has awarded an honorary doctorate of science to Christine Keltel-Kreidt, a professor at the Freie Universitat Berlin and chair of the International Mathematics...
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Eyewitness
As Romano Prodi's "wise men" prepared to release their report on a strengthened and enlarged European Union, a less-publicised forum gathered in Weimar, Germany. Weimar was chosen for the most recent...
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World watch
Canada's universities have been given enough funds to create 1,200 research posts and an additional 800 research chairs to stem the brain drain across all disciplines.
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Bruce Charlton argued academics should sabotage the Teaching Quality Assessment exercise Aidan Foster-Carter Hon senior research fellow in sociology and modern Korea Leeds...
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Gower tower
(Photograph) - The new Gower building on the Highfield campus of Southampton University, which was opened officially this week. It contains three banks, a bookshop, a computer specialist store and 22...
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Get hip
David Torgeson of the University of York's health sciences department and research nurse Ruth Hildreth with their shock-absorbing underwear designed for people who have had hip replacements....
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World watch
An Iranian-born, Swedish-naturalised student at Halmstad University College is wanted by Sweden's security police for smuggling nuclear weapons components to Iran. The student bought a thyratron,...
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World watch
The Italian parliament has approved a bill recognising the country's 19,090 "researchers" as full university lecturers. Researchers perform ancillary teaching duties in the lowest category of tenured...
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World watch
Freiburg University in Germany has joined Universitas 21, the international network of 17 research-led universities. Lund University in Sweden is also understood to be finalising its membership. U21...
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Kosovo conflict
(Photograph) - A K-for armoured personnel carrier stands by as Albanian students in Kosovska Mitrovica threaten to cross a bridge separating them from Serb-controlled university buildings in the...
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Engineers clash with minister
PARIS. French education minister Claude Allegre is refusing to reappoint the director of the Ecole Centrale de Paris, one of France's prestigious state engineering schools. The governors voted...