Ballot on merger of European heads
The board of the CRE (Association of European Universities) has agreed to ballot members on a merger with the Confederation of European Union Rectors Conferences. The decision was taken at the CRE's...
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Disability claim is upheld
The College of Ripon and York St John has failed to quash a disability discrimination claim. When faced with allegations of discrimination from disabled lecturer Claire Hobbs, the college apparently...
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Pauper with a point to prove
Extending opportunity, maintaining quality and attacking new markets - Derby is answering its critics. Tony Tysome reports. Managers at Derby University are ready for the quality inspectors. In fact...
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Israeli demands
The future of Derby University's lucrative franchise operation in Israel - and indeed its international academic reputation - hang in the balance. By the end of next month, an audit of Derby's...
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What's in a name?
After months of wrangling, the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has finally chosen itself a new and much funkier name. From now on it will be known as "Universities UK". One committee...
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Double booking
There was consternation at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside this week when it looked as if culture secretary Chris Smith would miss a planned tour of its "extensive media and IT suites"...
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...and double trouble
The real Sally Brown stood up to be counted this week at a conference on innovative teaching in Stirling. Professor Brown, assistant principal of Stirling University and chair of the 2001 education...
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Marine madness
Spare a thought for the parents of Imogen Hoyle, a second-year marine biology and coastal ecology student at Plymouth University, who will not be returning home to work in her local burger joint over...
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Glittering prizes
Stephen Palmer, honorary professor of psychology at City University, has been awarded the annual counselling psychology award from the British Psychological Society, Division of Counselling...
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On the move
Leslie Hannah, dean of City University's business school has been appointed chief executive of Aldridge Management College. The members of the new Statistics Commission are: Colette Bowe, head of...
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In the news
It would take more than a wobbling bridge to knock Sir Anthony Caro from the position he holds as Britain's foremost living sculptor. A former assistant to Henry Moore and widely regarded as his...
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Don's Diary
September. Visit the set of Dog Days, a film based on one of my short stories from Flying Leap. It is a sort of absurdist fable set in post-apocalyptic suburbia. It is bizarre to find my words...
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Bologna
The International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid after the rector of Bologna University, Fabio Roversi Monaco. The IAU is the recognised authority for assigning names to celestial bodies....
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Kisangani
The University of Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has turned into a refugee camp following confrontations between Ugandan and Rwandan troops fighting for control of the mineral-rich...
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Dakar
After differences between the governments of Mauritania and Senegal over the construction of a dam on a river running through the two countries, Senegalese students studying at the University of...