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When she retires this summer, Jenny Shackleton, 55, principal of troubled Wirral Metropolitan College, will have spent 26 years involved in further education. The past 12, in the politically charged...
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Don's Diary
Monday The week starts with a strange need - where to find a stuffed fox. We want to investigate maternal responsiveness in sows and need to acquire a predator. One phone call to a contact in the...
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On the move
Former governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten, 54, has been made chancellor of Newcastle University, where his eldest daughter Kate was an undergraduate. He hopes to promote the university abroad,...
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Glittering prizes
Wendy Bickmore, geneticist in the Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh, has been awarded a $1 million (Pounds 570,000) James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in human genetics...
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The THES Diary
The Net of temptation Temptation arrived this month at Imperial College, London, in the form of a cash-for-qualifications offer through a mass email shot to students. The scam traders offered...
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Eye witness
In April Canada creates a new territory - Nunavut - to give an official and semi-autonomous home to its Inuit population. No one disputes that it will be costly to implement the 1993 Land Claim...
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Washington
George Lundberg, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association for nearly 20 years, has been fired after publishing a study revealing that most university students agreed with President...
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Delivering the impossible
When other research councils cannot do something, they go to the CLRC. Martin Ince reports. Life in a government laboratory ought to be a calming experience, but Bert Westwood runs one that is as...
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Copenhagen
A hunt for the remains of a meteorite thought to have landed in south-west Greenland in December 1997 has resulted in two specks of dust. They were found after three tons of snow had been melted and...
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Ouagadougou
Protesting academics and students have rejected a request by Blaise Campaore, president of Burkina Faso and chairman of the Organisation of African Unity, to sit on an inquiry into the death of a...
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Rome
Tor Vergata, the second-largest university in Rome, has discovered that just before elections for university committees several hundred new students, mostly over 30, enrol, pay a first instalment of...
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Minister slams lazy lecturers
Italy's new university minister Ortensio Zecchino has told academics that they must work harder and reduce their outside interests. "Italian academics work too little, less than their European...
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Twente offers asylum seekers a study home
The University of Twente is planning to accommodate young asylum seekers on campus. The idea came from the student council which wanted to help ease the problems faced by refugees in the Netherlands...
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Internet insight into the party machine
The head of the Portuguese Association of Industrial Archaeology is leading an investigation into factory museums in Russia and other former socialist countries. Anthropologist Antonio Eduardo...
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Furry friends
(Photograph) - Furry friends: Steve Gray, a New Deal student, with a red ruffed Lemur at the Shaldon Wildlife Trust in south Devon. The trust, which specialises in small animals and primates, is...