Lecturers to offer their seats to parents
Lecturers at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside may give up their seats at this year's graduation ceremonies in protest against the university's decision to charge guests Pounds 10 a head...
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Made-up
(Photograph) - Made-up: two graduates from London won this year's Academy Award for best film make-up for their work on Mike Leigh's film Topsy Turvy, about Gilbert and Sullivan. Christine Blundell,...
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Scant help for 'chocolate teapots'
University staff have a wide range of terms for colleagues they think are at a "career plateau". These include "dead wood", "research inactive", "technologically inept", "hit the buffers" and "as...
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Lifelong learning gets Pounds 28m injection
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has announced a 9 per cent cash increase to further education colleges for the coming year, writes Olga Wojtas. Mr McLeish...
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Don's diary
Sunday My first day as part of an official delegation to Palestine organised by the Friends of Birzeit University. Arrive at Ben Gurion airport, official entry point to Palestine, and announce my...
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On the ball?
National Union of Students officers were concerned this week that crucial debates at the annual conference in Blackpool could be lost because of clashes with Tuesday's fixture between Manchester...
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Out of the picture
It is never easy for a public figure when he passes on the baton. So no wonder Andrew Pakes was feeling sensitive when, having watched Owain James elected as his successor to the presidency of the...
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Cash credit
The last-minute decision by the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee to award Tory party treasurer Michael Ashcroft a strings-attached peerage may have been inspired by Anglia Polytechnic University...
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Hands-down winner
Few people are more deserving of a break than Andrew Cubie, following his gruelling five-month stint chairing the Scottish student finance inquiry. So there was loud applause at a Queen Margaret...
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Sir John Kingman
Sir John Kingman, 60, Bristol University's long-standing vice-chancellor, is said to have quietly campaigned for a statistics commission during his tenure as president of the Royal Statistical...
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On the move
New members of the House of Lords were announced last week. Kay Andrews, director of Education Extra (Labour), became a baroness. Becoming barons were Julian Hunt, professor of climate modelling,...
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Glittering prizes
The Open University has awarded honorary degrees to: Talbot D'Alemberte, professor of law at Florida State University (Dr); Sydney Silverstone, former tutor-counsellor at the university (MA); Charles...
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Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin's election as Russian president promises to be a boon for analysts as they dissect his chances of hauling Russia into the 21st century. The taciturn former KGB spy has given little...
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Yellow Springs, Ohio
The bodies of an exchange student and a former student from Antioch College have been discovered in Costa Rica. Both had been shot. Emily Howell, 19, had been working on a photography project there...
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Lisbon
European Union leaders agreed at the Lisbon special economic summit last month to halve by 2010 the number of 18 to 24-year-olds who are not in further education and training. They also agreed to...