Stick to your principals
Possibly the most contrived after-dinner joke made this week fell from the lips of Tim O'Shea, master of Birkbeck College, London. Professor O'Shea told a gathering that heads of London colleges...
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Our friends in the North
Brian Lang, former chief executive and deputy chairman of the British Library, has returned to his native Scotland as principal of St Andrews University. Earlier this week, he was musing on...
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'Sorry' won't rewrite the wrongs
A first class for a 'flawed' thesis on Holocaust revisionism has angered the Jewish community. The New Zealand Jewish community has signalled disappointment and anger at the failure of the University...
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Eyewitness: Holocaust Remembrance Day
Britain will mark its first Holocaust Memorial Day with a televised ceremony in central London tomorrow. Leading political, religious and community figures are expected to attend the ceremony. The...
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World watch
Kinshasa Lectures and seminars in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been suspended for a week out of respect for assassinated president Laurent Kabila. But at the University of Kivu in the...
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Cost cuts haunt medical body
The Canadian government's decision to drastically reduce student enrolment in medical schools ten years ago is being reversed as the country faces a shortage of doctors. Critics say the shortages can...
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Linguists net lovers' pillow talk
Linguistic scientists at Münster University in Germany have found a shrewd way of gathering research material into the secret language of lovers. Students who wanted to join a seminar on the subject...
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UK don goes the distance with study reform in Africa
Nearly 40 years ago, a British professor embarked on a career that has helped create distance-learning opportunities across Africa. Tony Dodds, who worked in open and distance learning in countries...
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Wealthy Oman looks to upgrade
A baby boom is putting oil-rich Oman under pressure to upgrade education to guarantee jobs for local people and reduce the burgeoning economy's reliance on foreign workers. Three, and possibly four,...
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Church papers listed online
St Andrews University hopes to spare researchers unnecessary visits to its campus to trawl through key church papers by creating an internet database. St Andrews has the world's finest collection of...
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Russian archive to rival US NetLibrary
Researchers and scholars the world over will soon gain access to tens of thousands of rare and sought-after books from the vast archives of the Russian State Library via the internet. A £2 million...
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Wap lets students ring for results
Wap technology may spare German students a trip to the examination office to get their results - they will be able to call them up on their mobile phones instead. The higher education information...
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Spin-off sold for £200m
The University of Bradford will be £36 million richer today after selling its share of spin-off company Bradford Particle Design. The sale of the spin-off to Californian pharmaceuticals company...
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Director seconded to the SIE
Carl Togneri, director of semi-conductors at Scottish Enterprise, has won a two-year secondment to the post of director of the Scottish Institute for Enterprise. The SIE, a consortium of Dundee,...
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Scholars overhaul concept of e-book
Academics at Birmingham and Nottingham universities have created a new kind of electronic book that they believe could revolutionise scholarly writing and publishing. The multidimensional, coherent...