On the move
Sir Alan Budd, 61, former chief economic adviser to the Treasury, has been elected provost of Queen's College, Oxford. He will succeed Geoffrey Marshall, who retires next July. Newscaster Trevor...
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Glittering prizes
The poet and former curate R. S. Thomas, 85, has been appointed to an honorary professorship in the Welsh department, University of Wales, Bangor. Cherie Booth QC has been elected an honorary fellow...
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The THES Diary
Union drive at FEFC There has been an outbreak of militancy at the Further Education Funding Council, where staff have been flocking to join a trade union. Public Commercial Services has signed up 60...
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In the news
He is an opera-loving law lord, renowned for his braininess, who cycles to work and spends holidays cycling round Europe. Often hailed as a liberal lawyer and now in trouble for failing to declare...
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Eye witness
A rash of mergers has broken out on the face of Europe's pharmaceutical industry, with London again the likely home base of two of the three largest companies in the world. The likely merger of the...
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World watch
Religious organisations at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, have embarked on a week of prayers and fasting imploring God to drive away what they called the "spirit of demons" visiting the campus....
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World watch
Australia will have its 37th public university in 1999 following a decision by the Federal and Queensland governments to give the Sunshine Coast University College full status as a member of the...
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Polish president backs return of Prussian art
Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski has suggested that collections from the Prussian State Library, held by the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, be returned to Germany. His suggestion, made in...
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Senegal government 'sold' diplomas
Western embassies in Dakar are insisting that Senegalese citizens seeking university places overseas sit qualifying tests before they can be issued student visas. The action follows the discovery of...
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Britain is tops for US students
The number of Americans studying overseas increased dramatically last year to more than 100,000, and the United Kingdom continued to attract most of them. But increasing competition from non-...
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LA teaching assistants strike
In what seems a measure of growing discontent among United States graduate students, particularly in the humanities, teaching assistants at the University of California have walked off the job at...
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MLAlienation and my part in it
No British experience can compare with the MLA, says Diane Purkiss I tried to join the Modern Language Association in 1991. The association swallowed up a big fat money order and never replied. So I...
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Canadian students deeper in debt
Evidence of rapidly growing debt among Canadian students has been confirmed by a survey commissioned by Statistics Canada. Based on a 15 per cent sample of 1995 university and college graduates, the...
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All together a loan
Project Pride wants to simplify the process of getting information from the world's libraries. Mike Holderness reports. While the International Workers of the World sang about One Big Union,...
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Peter Mandelson
(Photograph) - Peter Mandelson, secretary of state for trade and industry, takes the controls of a Pounds 1 million-plus virtual reality simulator at the opening of the University of Teesside's...