Army enters into row with rectors
The army has entered the escalating row between Turkey's government and university rectors over plans to reform higher education. Eight rectors have met the head of land forces, General Aytac Yalman...
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Big panel split delays reforms in Norway
A committee looking into the future of higher education in Norway is so split that it has delayed giving its report to the minister of education by a month. The ten-member committee, which is chaired...
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Toronto rating falls with markets
The weakened stock market that has hit university pension and endowment funds in Canada has been cited as the principal reason for the reduction in the credit rating of the University of Toronto....
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Read our lips: top-up fees simply won't work
Labour's conference has convinced Ian Gibson that the government won't listen to reason There may have been some inspired rhetoric that set off a few feel-good sparks at last week's Labour Party...
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Harry Kroto
Plain English was a bigcasualty of the Kelly affair. The secret service and Blair's advisers need to be taught a lesson I seem to remember that when I was a kid the primary aim of English lessons in...
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Text Tories for a fee-free year
As the Conservatives gathered in Blackpool for their party conference, they indulged in an incentive scheme to win the student vote. Shadow education secretary Damian Green encouraged students to...
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UUK retires to the fringes
Meanwhile, at last week's Labour Party Conference, vice-chancellors flaunting the fact they were no longer pushovers suffered something of a setback at their fringe meeting. Universities UK delegates...
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V-c runs on mystery bubbly
The Diary can disclose what fuels Alison Richard, the new vice-chancellor of Cambridge University. A sneaky peak in the premier's fridge revealed an industrial-sized box of chocolate bars and two...
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Cuppa for Karzai? No problem
The Wills effect has given the citizens of St Andrews, where the prince is studying, an unflappable attitude to dignitaries. Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan, last week visited the university...
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Don's diary: Cape Town and gown
April 2001 I am summonsed to my tailor in a back street in Cape Town to pick up my robe. As I squeeze past the choristers of an African Pentecostal church, I suspect I am in for a treat. So it proves...
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Why I... think postgraduates need more support to take on teaching roles
Amid the drive to widen participation and increase the number of young people receiving a university education, the small matter of actually teaching them deserves more attention. There has been a...
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Chance to advance ....
Geoffrey Copland says employers have moved towards a fair pay deal for staff, but Sally Hunt thinks they have done just the opposite and have engaged in mudslinging to obscure the real issues...
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.... or vicious gamesmanship?
Geoffrey Copland says employers have moved towards a fair pay deal for staff, but Sally Hunt thinks they have done just the opposite and have engaged in mudslinging to obscure the real issues In last...
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Be rigorous at the start and the marriage will survive
The relationship between a PhD student and their supervisor can be a tricky one. Susan Bassnett has a recipe for success. Sooner or later, most academics find themselves examining a doctoral thesis....
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Jobwatch: Business Studies is booming
Aston and Central England universities, Imperial College London and Templeton College, Oxford, are all battling it out to attract top business academics. Pat Leon reports. University business schools...