Agony aunt
Q A colleague proposes to award first-class honours to a borderline student with whom he is having an affair. I expect the decision to be challenged but I do not know if I should reveal what I know...
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Lifelong learners will profit from devolution
Devolution is opening up "a new and positive era" for Scottish further and higher education, according to Henry McLeish, Scotland's enterprise and lifelong learning minister, writes Olga Wojtas. Mr...
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Home rung
(Photograph) - Aberdeen University chaplain Gillean MacLean with the last surviving original bell from King's College Chapel. The 234-year-old bell is one of 13 that were sold during an 18th-century...
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Inquiry stalls Quigley report
Sir George Quigley has suspended his inquiry into the impact of fourth-year Scottish tuition fees because of a potential clash with Scotland's own investigation into student finance. The Quigley...
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Finance plan takes shape
Scotland's independent committee of inquiry into student finance is set to reveal its consultation priorities at the beginning of August. The 14-member committee held its first meeting last week,...
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In the news
In a collection of memoirs by alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, journalist Richard Gott recalls his first meeting with Roger Waterhouse, who was wearing "a garish blue sweater and no jacket...
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On the move
Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge, 65, chairman of British Airways, has been elected chairman of Chatham House. He will take up the appointment in late September, succeeding the present chairman, Lord...
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Don's diary
Thursday I am on my way to Abu Dhabi to deliver a five-day training package on police management skills for women to the city's policewomen. With little knowledge of the levels of educational...
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Warwick saga
The letter from the vice-chancellor of Newcastle University defending Diana Warwick was utterly perfect ("Warwick and conflict of interest", THES, July 16). Was it actually written by Laurie Taylor?...
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Warwick saga
Of course Warwick should resign. It is very worrying that the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals council could not see this: does it view universities as just another government department...
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Visitor is out in QAA draft code
The Quality Assurance Agency blueprint for complaints and standards is under fire Objections from universities have forced the Quality Assurance Agency back to the drawing board with its code of...
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The THES Diary
Cafe society He's back. Roger Ward, disgraced former head of the Association of Colleges, opened his new cafe-restaurant this week in London's Muswell Hill. Champagne-loving Ward was upbeat as he...
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Kazak deal saves Russian space mission
Kazak astronaut Talgat Musabayev is to command a Russian mission on a new Soyuz-TMA spacecraft in October 2000. The announcement coincided with an agreement ending the row between Kazakhstan and...
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Canberra
Australian universities face millions of dollars in additional costs as a result of the federal government's adoption of a goods and services tax. Legislation approving the new 10 per cent tax comes...
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Bangui
Troops were called into the Universite Nationale Centre-Africaine in Bangui, capital of the francophone republic of Central Africa, to protect students from neighbouring Chad against reprisals for...