Don's diary
September Francis Maude, shadow chancellor, invites me to take part in a policy group he is setting up to look again at the Tory policy of opposition to Bank of England independence. I accept. Meet...
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Unskilled please apply
If ever proof were needed of the business world's low opinion of academics' practical skills, it comes in a recent missive from headhunters seeking the government's new chief scientific adviser. In...
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Making friends abroad
Anil Seale, head of the Cambridge Overseas Trust, did his bit for elitism on a visit to Ankara this week. Speaking as Cambridge University prepared to sign an agreement for a scholarship scheme for...
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Bigwig boogies
Nelson Mandela's visit to the London School of Economics last week was hailed by members of the audience as a deeply moving and uplifting experience. The former South African president, 81, wowed...
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Self-publicist's prize
Hot on the heels of the National Teaching Fellowships, Sheffield University's student newspaper is launching the Golden Plug Awards. Academics at Sheffield must work out the cost of personal...
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In the news
Maxwell Irvine arrived as vice-chancellor of Birmingham University bemoaning the lack of regional collaboration between institutions in the West Midlands. With rumours of a merger between Birmingham...
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On the move
Jim Scrimshaw, chair of the Association of Colleges, is to step down because of work demands. His successor will be appointed in May. John Dickinson, principal of King Alfred's College, Winchester,...
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Glittering prizes
Alexandra Walsham, lecturer at the University of Exeter, has received the Pounds 1,000 Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize 2000 for Providence in Early Modern England, published by Oxford...
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Eyewitness
India's right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party government is accused by its critics of rewriting history and of trying to take control of state-funded academic institutions to push through a "jingoistic"...
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Violence spawns violence
Philippine university fraternity houses are out of control but their actions simply mirror a corrupt gun-toting society, writes Hugh Levinson. It was a long wait outside courtroom 312 in an airless...
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Bucharest
The Romanian Supreme Appeals Court has ruled in favour of establishing the planned Petoefi-Schiller University to offer courses taught in Romanian, Hungarian and German. The decision reversed the...
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Pisa
A French Jesuit Bible researcher has advanced a thesis that claims that Judas did not betray Christ. Javier Leon Dufour told the Italian religious monthly Paolini Jesus that in consigning Christ to...
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College finds itself big news in row over recruiting scab labour
A journalism department at an Ottawa university learnt a quick lesson in staff politics after a Calgary newspaper arrived to recruit summer interns. Carleton University's School of Journalism and...
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Oz wages war on student visa fraud
The Australian government will take action against colleges that collude with overseas students to evade immigration regulations. The government will use electronic tracking of students and better...
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Brazil plans ambitious performance tables
Brazil is grading the performance of its universities through a national assessment of students' final examinations, Brazilian education minister Paulo Renato Souza explained during a visit to London...