Don's diary: Bog standards in Seoul and London
Wednesday Arrive at World Toilet Summit in Seoul, South Korea, after airport delays caused by typhoon winds. Greet Koo Ue, director of the Japan Toilet Association, who pioneered the Asian "restroom...
Wednesday Arrive at World Toilet Summit in Seoul, South Korea, after airport delays caused by typhoon winds. Greet Koo Ue, director of the Japan Toilet Association, who pioneered the Asian "restroom...
The British Medical Journal has launched an appeal to ban a word for Christmas. It states: "Trying to ban a word is not only hopeless but also an insult. Worse still, it has totalitarian overtones....
The University of Buckingham, Britain's only private university, is trying to raise its proportion of home students. Some think the reason that only 25 per cent of the student body is British is that...
Have the Boys from Brazil moved north to Cuba? According to the programme for next week's biotechnology conference in Havana, one name will dominate the session on cloning. This Cuban features on a...
The THES 's league table of vice-chancellors' salaries has been embroiled in a row over Sir George Bain's pay. A Belfast newspaper reported allegations by the Fire Brigades Union that Sir George,...
The dream is over for Team Bath, who were knocked out of the FA Cup last weekend. The University of Bath side came from 4-0 down to lose 4-2 to Mansfield Town.
The decision by Harvard University's English department to cancel a November 14 reading by Tom Paulin came suddenly and was reversed as suddenly. Apparently no one at Harvard knew about his remarks...
V-cs need to get involved in the battle for increased London weighting, argues Sally Hunt Last week, thousands of staff from London's universities went on strike in support of their claim for a...
Plans to abandon classification of degrees should not be rushed through, warns Mantz Yorke The honours degree classification tries to do two things simultaneously - to attest to students'...
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