Europe urged to get a move on
Viviane Reding, the European Union's commissioner for education, has admitted a lot more work remains to be done to make the European higher education area a reality by 2010. "We are still far away...
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French opt for English
English is the dominant language in an updated series of journals published by the French Academy of Sciences. The journals, which used to be called Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences ,...
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Valencia wants EU loan for rebuilding
The European Investment Bank is considering plans to lend four universities in the Valencia region of Spain up to €85 million (£55 million) for a wide range of building projects to improve their...
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Russia tempts foreigners with tailor-made courses
Russia is fast developing a new export industry - tailor-made courses in everything from cultural studies to business practices in the post-Communist world. St Petersburg's North-West Technical...
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In the news: David Paterson
The Venice Lagoon is rarely mentioned in the same breath as Morecambe Bay and the Forth Estuary. But this week it was announced that St Andrews University coastal specialist David Paterson will...
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Don's diary: Cry for Argentina
Monday My birthday. One short of the big 50. Don't feel as old as that, except when I look in the mirror. Leave for Buenos Aires, where I am contributing to a masters course in small business...
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Outside chance
The University of Cambridge appears keen to appoint an external candidate to the vice-chancellor's post. The current incumbent, Sir Alec Broers, is due to leave in September 2003. Despite setting up...
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007 lent a hand
The next James Bond film, Die Another Day , due for release on November 22, will feature high-tech surgical instruments from Imperial College, London. The college lent the film producers its Da Vinci...
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Doofaas and Boojums
After learning that the project to put postdocs into schools has been dubbed Inspire, after INovative Scheme for Postdocs In Research and Education (back page), the Diary was delighted to discover a...
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No fine for cone return
More than 100 items including traffic cones and street signs have been returned under an amnesty at St Andrews University. Students had been asked to return the spoils of their nights out on the town...
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Thoroughly modern gals
Charm school Lucie Clayton College - described as an alternative to university for post A-level students - is to merge with business school St James's College. The merger marks the end of an era....
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Kissed-off Dutch don
A former university lecturer is campaigning against Dutch people giving each other three kisses when they meet. Dolph Kohnstamm, who worked at the University of Amsterdam, described the triple pecks...
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Two new chiefs
The Diary congratulates Geoffrey Crossick, pro vice-chancellor of the University of Essex, on his appointment as chief executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board. Professor Crossick is...
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One game, a thousand meanings
What builds nations, rallies rebellious youth and gays and makes Europeans of Englishmen? It must be football, says Chris Bunting. It was the year of revolution in Europe. In 1848, France, Italy, the...
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'Good times, a bit of power and a little money too...'
... that is what Andrew Dilnot wants to offer young academics when he becomes principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford. Huw Richards reports. Chancellor Gordon Brown and other leading politicians might...