Hodge makes promise to get tough on bogus degrees
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge has announced a clampdown on bogus degree scams, warning that "organisations claiming to be universities are ripping off thousands of students around the...
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Scientist is shunned as cloning row rages
An international fertility conference and the association behind it are in disarray amid protests against Severino Antinori, the scientist who wants to clone a human being. The Italian embryologist...
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Fight the right war
We must not let the battle against terrorism turn into a clash of civilisations, writes Azzam Tamimi These are difficult times for Muslims worldwide, but in particular for those in Europe and America...
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Trying to find the wise words
Squeezing an analysis of terrorism into three minutes is no easy job, writes Lawrence Freedman I spent the afternoon of September 11, along with everyone else with access to a television, mesmerised...
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Why I think Mona Lisa became an icon
I was seven when I first saw the Mona Lisa . My mother had programmed me to be impressed: her eyes follow you everywhere and her smile is enigmatic. I did as I was told and was dutifully in awe....
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Russell elite go for jugular of ailing QAA
The elite Russell Group universities are demanding the abolition of all teaching-quality assessment, in defiance of ministers and students. In a confidential draft response to consultative plans for...
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Disaster celebrations claim untrue, says university A Brazilian university has said there is no basis to allegations circulated on the internet by one of its students that the film of...
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The civilization to be defended
Grenville Wall [ gren.wall@kolumbus.fi ] Friday 21 September 2001, 06: BST One of the very earliest jewels in the civilization the West wants to defend against terrorism is The Oresteia by...
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'Managers gain at staff's cost'
Not everyone welcomes the unification of new and old universities under one negotiating body, says Elaine Carlton This year's punishing pay dispute in the university sector ended in June with a...
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A structural revolutionary
Li Shirong could make a packet working for the construction industry in Hong Kong, but believes there is work to be done in her native China, writes Jackie Sheehan Li Shirong, professor of...
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Busy saying nothing at all
Despite the shocking nature of last week's terrorist attacks on the United States, Adam Jaworski finds a dearth of 'factual' reporting among Britain's media. No matter what your political orientation...
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Gulf war II:like father like son
The Gulf conflict of 1990-91 was never resolved, argues Norman Bonney, and under George W. Bush many of the original players are back in the game. As the United States and most of the rest of the...
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Will Wills join the art class struggle?
The art world Prince William is entering with his course at St Andrews has long been a breeding ground for radical views. John A. Walker considers which influences may sway the heir to the throne....
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The toughest trick
For performance pay to work, it must reflect directly the goals we want to achieve - and there lies the rub, says David Marsden In the past two decades, Britain's universities have become much more...
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This spine could put backbone into staff
The new national pay bargaining deal could well help create the conditions in which workers in higher education come together and press for real change, argues Roger Seifert Watched, regulated and...