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PHAROAHS AND THE FLEA The true curse of the pharaohs has been identified among remains left by Tutankhamun's tomb workers and guards - fleas. The excavation of a 3,300-year-old village in the...
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E-learning's big questions remain
Rapidly maturing online learning has delivered effective and user sensitive environments, an audience of academics, journalists and students at the Royal Institution heard last Thursday. Most...
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Medical dressing wins Scots grants
A husband-and-wife research team at Dundee University, named Scotland's innovators of 2000, are developing a treatment that could help diabetics avoid foot amputations. Seth and Ana Schor of Dundee's...
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Welsh to incubate innovation
The Welsh Development Agency has unveiled plans to create a £50 million network of up to 20 incubator complexes linking academic research to business operations throughout Wales. The first six...
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Glittering prizes
Rosemary Barberet , lecturer in criminal justice at the University of Leicester, has been elected chair of the international division of the American Society of Criminology . The University of Luton...
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In the news: Maggie Woodrow
Education secretary Estelle Morris's acceptance that the perception of student debt was preventing many people from going to university would have been welcome to Maggie Woodrow. Ms Woodrow, who was...
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On the move
The University of Warwick appointed: Carol Aubrey , formerly of Canterbury Christ Church University College, professor of education; Alma Harris , previously of the University of Nottingham,...
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Snubbed by St Andrews
St Andrews University has notched up another claim to exclusivity. It is the only institution in the United Kingdom to snub the e-university. Some 70 universities, 17 directly funded schools and...
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Cnut is no B'Stard
Rik Mayall is to make a television comeback as a scheming university professor. He will play Adonis Cnut - pronounced "Canute" - in a follow-up to his role as sleazy Tory MP Alan B'Stard. Professor...
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Students from St Andrews University this week achieved the worst score so far in the current series of BBC quiz show University Challenge. The team scored 40 points while Churchill College, Cambridge...
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Token gesture
Congratulations to Paul Mackney, general secretary of lecturers' union Natfhe and winner of this week's First Impressions. Mr Mackney identified the opening lines of The Black Jacobins by Marxist...
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Catering for everyone
Heriot-Watt University's caterers have won an award under the Scottish healthy choices scheme, run by the Health Education Board for Scotland and the Scottish Consumer Council. Lothian Health Board...
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Singing for a sup or two
Ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney is to do a poetry reading in exchange for a case of wine at the University of East Anglia next month. Sir Paul will read from Blackbird Singing, a new anthology of his...
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Dressed for success?
The Diary extends a warm welcome to the fresh-faced and floppy-fringed Mary Stacey, the new independent chair of the national pay negotiating machinery for higher education. Ms Stacey looks far...
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Currency before exchange
UK universities prefer fee-paying students to European ones. Anne Corbett laments our policy on mobility. Is it an idea whose time has come - that British students catch up with their continental...