Tribunal to hear from sacked lecturer
A senior lecturer was unfairly sacked for complaining about inaccuracies in his colleague's books, a tribunal was due to hear this week. As Whistleblowers revealed last November, Rob Slack, a senior...
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Instant readings on river pollution
A cheap, hand-held device that gives almost instant readings for pollution levels in rivers has been designed by scientists at the University of the West of England. Researchers in the university's...
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World watch
Dakar Cheik Anta Diop University has been closed indefinitely on the orders of Senegal education minister Andre Sonko after demonstrations in support of demands for extra refectories, halls of...
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World watch
Bonn Germany is to set up a "Forum for Education" to work out a blueprint for important reforms in schools, higher education and research. It will present its conclusions at the end of 2001. The...
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Trials for DNA vaccines
A PhD student at a London hospital is developing a vaccine that she hopes will cut the risk of chicken pox in developing countries and may slash the cases of shingles here and abroad. Uzma Hasan, a...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Six days to go. Thirteen senior police officers from five northern constabularies and six academics will be meeting for a day of consultation on ethical leadership in the police service....
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The THES Diary
Fostering ambitions Lib Dem education spokesman Don Foster is stepping down from the Commons education subcommittee after three years to "think about the future of the party". Could this be connected...
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On the move
Sir John Arbuthnot, 60, principal of Strathclyde University, is to retire at the end of next year after ten years' service. Roderick Floud, vice-chancellor of London Guildhall University, and Howard...
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Glittering prizes
Ronald Barnett, dean of professional development at the Institute of Education, University of London, has been awarded a DLitt (Ed) by the University of London in recognition of his contribution to...
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Eye witness
Turkey's universities are an important political barometer - in the 1970s they were the scene of some of the worst clashes between left and right in a period of social unrest that claimed the lives...
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An energetic quantum leap
The pace of life has quickened up so much that Sheldon Rothblatt asks how academics will cope next century The ultimate Don's Diary belongs to Joseph Romilly, an Anglican clergyman and registrary of...
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Kampala Ugandan education minister Francis Babu is to try to take a postgraduate course through distance education with a British university after he was expelled from Makerere University when...
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World watch
Boston The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has publicly acknowledged that it has been discriminating against women scientists for years. A five-year study published last week revealed that the...
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World watch
Wellington New Zealand's university staff union has challenged moves by Waikato University vice-chancellor Bryan Gould to restructure the university from eight schools into four faculties. An...
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Fehmi Agani
(Photograph) - Fehmi Agani (centre), the Kosovo sociology professor whom Nato reported executed on Sunday, pictured taking a break from the Rambouillet peace talks in February. With president...