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Paris Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist and philosopher, has died aged 71. Director of studies at the EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences), he was elected to the Collège de...
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Argentine minister vows to tackle crisis
Graciela Giannettasio, Argen-tina's new education minister, has vowed that she will draw on all her experience, workaholic energies and deep Christian faith to resolve her country's long-running...
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Canada faces funding freeze
Universities in British Columbia are awaiting details of the implications of the province's decision to freeze its education funding for three years. And in Ontario, there is speculation that the...
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Unesco to help Afghan rebuild
It was a chilly Kabul day. On the gravel outside Kabul University's dormitory for female students, a sea of empty shell casings was scattered at our feet. In front of us, the facade of the once...
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In the news: Barbara Young
The chief executive of the Environment Agency, Barbara Young, this week welcomed the watershed report into food production and farming that called for reform of the European Union's common...
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Don's Diary
Saturday I address the Graduates Association's Annual Ball referring to our most celebrated alumnus, David Livingstone. My enjoyment of the evening is slightly marred by one colleague's disclosure of...
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Beware belly-aching
Several New York restaurants are suing Columbia University after a professor sent them letters falsely complaining of food poisoning to study how businesses respond to complaints. Francis Flynn, an...
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Is Frodo a postgrad?
A tale circulating by email draws an analogy between doing a PhD and The Lord of the Rings . Here is a shortened version, with apologies to the author. Senior professor Gandalf suggests that Frodo...
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Legal lust bust
A video cassette recovered after being stolen from the law faculty at University of Camerino in Italy was found to contain pornographic images of female graduate students. An unnamed law lecturer has...
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Supporting role
Daresbury Laboratory has cast itself in a new role as a props supplier after losing the Diamond synchrotron project to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. It has lent two models of DNA structures to...
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It's my art, doctor
Brian Hurwitz, professor of primary health care and general practice at Imperial College, London, has been appointed professor of medicine and the arts at King's College London, based in the English...
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Made an example of
Caught in the act this week is the Royal Society, engaged in a hunt for examples of misreported research. Bureaucrat Bob Ward is pleading for "four or five" examples for Monday's You and Yours...
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New year, new hope for well-balanced Afghans
John Daniel examines how war-torn Afghanistan is rebuilding its education system with the help of donors. At last week's donors' meeting in Tokyo, the new leaders of Afghanistan proclaimed education...
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Welsh growth is good
It is good to see that the Welsh Assembly has proposed wide-ranging reforms to the structure of Welsh higher education ("Welsh 'cluster' plan attacked", THES , January 25). These broadly echo my...
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Get tough on pay
Two cheers for your leader ("Time is right for a tough stand on pay catch-up", THES , January 25). Much of the cost of university expansion has indeed been paid for by staff. A salary increase of 13...