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Female provost breaks mould at Cambridge King’s College, Cambridge, has appointed its new provost: the first non-King’s graduate for centuries and the first female provost in its 560-year history....
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Research elite want rethink of knowledge-transfer funding Top research-led universities want the government to revise plans to give new universities access to a £50 million fund to work more closely...
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Stalled reforms are not cause for celebration
Efforts to reform Cambridge show that if dons won't fight their corner, others will muscle in, says Gordon Johnson Normally, Cambridge University has a good press, which is appropriate for an...
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Harry Kroto
With all advances come some small drawbacks, but that doesn't mean technologies shouldn't be developed at all We are continually bombarded by emotive campaigns. You name it: for and against GM beans...
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Charges of light-bulb brigade
This week, The Diary brings you intelligence of what the country's academic registrars are doing when they're not shuffling papers - they're all exchanging puerile jokes about each others' students....
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Don's diary: Marketing Mannock, 'the ace with one eye'
January 1963 Wow, BBC schools broadcast on Mick Mannock VC, the "ace with one eye" who, myth has it, memorised the sight chart, tricking the doctors in order to rule the skies over the Western Front...
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Why I ...believe dropout rates are too low
We must always be concerned if students drop out of their degree programmes. For each one, we need to understand why they did so, whether we could have done anything to prevent it, whether they were...
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To publish or perish?
How can journal editors keep lethal research out of the hands of terrorists? Donald Kennedy reports C. P. Snow, in a series of splendid novels, explored the cultural gulf between the sciences and the...
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Paper casts the regions adrift
United Kingdom? Not according to the proposals advanced in the white paper, says Gerry McKenna The white paper signals the break-up of higher education in the UK. The proposals represent the de facto...
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Fifty schools await fate in elite standoff
The fate of 50 departments in a dozen universities hangs on the resolution of a standoff between ministers and their higher education advisers on how to select a new research elite. Last month's...
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Poaching of researchers forecast in 6* scramble
Leading research universities could start poaching promising departments from weaker institutions to secure the 6* research rating, according to analysis of the higher education white paper. Business...
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Anthropologist takes the plunge
As a Moscow University anthropology graduate, Russian model Inna Zobova had impeccable academic credentials to lecture at Rome's La Sapienza University. The black diaphanous blouse she wore to...
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In the news: Peter Forster
When Peter Forster started compiling the world's most comprehensive database matching mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) to geography, people laughed when he said he could tell from their saliva what their...
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Appointments
Gerald Pillay , executive head of the school of liberal arts at the University of Otago, New Zealand, has been appointed rector and chief executive of Liverpool Hope University College from September...
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Colleges to join top-up crowd
Nine out of ten universities and colleges plan to charge the full £3,000 a year fee for courses from 2006, curbing student choice and threatening the government's higher education and financial plans...