Gary Day
Intellectual battles should mean stimulating encounters with students rather than colleagues cutting one another in corridors It used to be quite common for people in English departments not to talk...
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Don's diary: Electrifying elections
Monday I'm here in Moscow as an international observer at the Russian parliamentary elections. My hotel is the Rossiya, just off Red Square. My room overlooks the river, and beyond it is the power...
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Gong but not forgotten
As the latest batch of gongs are conferred on the great and the good, former rector of the London Institute John McKenzie, who recently stood down as chairman of Leeds United Football Club, received...
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Bubbling over with flavour
As the Diary welcomes in the New Year there comes scientific proof of the wine tasters' adage that the best champagne has small bubbles and lots of them. Researchers at the University of Reims...
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Short-lived success
Those popular and successful types who were elected class president in medical school may not be so fortunate after all. A University of Toronto study found that they will die 2.4 years sooner than...
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Model students wanted
A model agency has launched a recruitment drive targeted at students. MOT Models is searching for hopefuls aged between 18 and 22, with a poster and flier campaign bearing the slogan "Are you model...
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Why I think top-up fees are irrelevant to the future of higher education
The government's policy for variable university fees is not relevant to the real problems of higher education in the UK. Vice-chancellors have persuaded government that they are seriously short of...
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Come on, celebrate!
Rugby got us dancing in the streets, so why can't we revel in science? asks Peter Cotgreave If the Beagle 2 lander had worked as planned after reaching Mars last week, it would have had to calibrate...
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More than a branch of UKHE plc
Diversity, not corporate bureaucracy, is essential in university management, says Ian McNay Academics committed to developing the government's e-learning strategy have complained about being...
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'Gang of four' run away with research lead
A “gang of four” super-elite UK universities is exerting an ever-tightening stranglehold on research, according to an exclusive analysis for The THES . Imperial College London tops the group with a...
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Forsooth! Computers share a Bard Joke
Shakespeare’s comedies may have failed to amuse generations of schoolchildren, but it seems computers could be more open to appreciating the wit of the Bard. Software developed by US scholars can...
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Flat-rate plan gains support
Vice-chancellors should support a flat-rate top-up fee along the lines suggested by Labour MPs Peter Bradley and Alan Whitehead, the chair of the Coalition of Modern Universities said this week. The...
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Students are ostrich-like when it comes to debt
The main reason tuition fees have failed to put students off university is because of their head-in-the-sand approach to finances, a study suggests. Research by academics at Heriot-Watt University,...
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Yeo predicts Labour fees victory
Shadow education secretary Tim Yeo has denied that the Conservatives are preparing to drop their opposition to top-up fees, despite splits in the party over the issue. Mr Yeo told The THES that there...
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Minister sets sights on Beagle 3
Scientists struggling to contact the UK’s Mars probe were this week assured of life after Beagle 2 by a government commitment to future exploration of the solar system. Lord Sainsbury, the science...