Fry's delight
Actor and entertainer Stephen Fry, who has been somewhat elusive in recent months, is appearing at Dundee University next week to be reinstalled for a further three years as university rector. The...
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Scout's outrage
As any Tom, Dick or Andrew Roberts can tell you, the way to get public and media attention for history is to lay into one of British history's traditional heroic figures. No surprise then that the...
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Listening banker
Suitable modesty last week on behalf of Terry Thomas, managing director of the Cooperative Bank, launching the business and ecology centre which the bank is funding at four Manchester universities (...
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Nobel divorce prize
Robert Lucas may have made a lot of money from the theory of rational expectations, but his former wife has just got half of it. Possibly the most conceited clause ever included in a divorce...
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A star in Labour's new shadow team
Ex-academic Stephen Byers joined the expanded shadow employment and education team this week as Labour completed its front bench appointments. Mr Byers, 42, has been employment whip for the past year...
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Prison vices
VACANCY: High profile public service post. Must be able to cope with chronic overcrowding, underfunding, grumpy staff, reams of paperwork, endless dubious performance indicators, meddling ministers...
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HEBE set to close
Higher Education Business Enterprises Ltd, the higher education information agency, is set for closure. Today's meeting of the council of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, joint...
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Balkan briefs: Albanian students
(Photograph) - Balkan briefs: high powered Albanian students including a judge and two "inspectors of law" set to work on the gruelling one-year common professional examination being offered by the...
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Patent battle over life
Academics have joined a campaign against the patenting of life forms in the lead up to two important European decisions on patents. The campaign, run by the Genetics Forum, involves the signing of a...
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Hepatitis B screening 'unfair to students'
Revised medical school guidelines on screening applicants for the hepatitis B virus continue to discriminate against students compared with health workers, according to medical student leaders. The...
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Internet news
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication. The New...
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Care centre urged
Ian Bouchier, chief scientist at the Scottish Office home and health department, said this week that Scotland should consider establishing an academic centre for research in primary care and general...
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Postgrad support
In the academic year 1993-94, there were 43,800 postgraduate award holders in the UK, 22 per cent of the postgraduate population. In England 9,267 postgraduate students received support from access...
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Cheltenham debut
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education launched a new centre of policy and health research yesterday. Helping people cope with motor neurone disease will be one of its main areas of...
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Safe sex for closet readers
The quality of the writing on the back of lavatory doors in Scottish seats of learning is about to improve dramatically. Posters bearing arresting extracts from contemporary fiction, including The...