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Mo Mowlam did not need a degree in social anthropology at Durham University to make her a people person. Her charm has been a noted aspect of her work as secretary of state for Northern Ireland. One...
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Don's diary
Tuesday The optician's letter - "it is two years since..." - had been gathering dust for some time. When I finally got round to making an appointment he suspected high blood pressure and advised a...
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The THES Diary
Shine on Delegates to the TEC annual conference were in defiant mood last week after being effectively abolished by the government's white paper Learning to Succeed. So speculation ran rife over the...
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On the move
Paul Richards, chief executive of West Midlands Development Agency, is to take up the new post of deputy vice-chancellor (executive director - external developments) at Staffordshire University....
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Glittering prizes
The British Academy has elected the following as fellows: William Arnott, former professor of classics at the University of Leeds; Graeme Barker, professor of archaeology, University of Leicester;...
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Eye witness
Last month, Commonwealth secretary general Chief Emeka Anyaoku announced that his special envoy had successfully negotiated an end to civil unrest in the Solomon Islands. In the preceding three weeks...
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Happiness is a sheathed gun
A spate of violent attacks has forced the reassessment of the American high school, says Sheldon Rothblatt Puberty has been captured by the most commercialised popular culture ever known, with...
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World watch
French president Jacques Chirac has awarded the Legion d'Honneur to Janne Carlsson, rector of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm from 1988 to 1999, for exceptional devotion to the...
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World watch
Vladimir Zaitzev, director of the National Library in St Petersburg, is among a group of Russian artists and intellectuals awarded a new Alexander Pushkin medal for achievements in culture and...
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Malta makes plans for Italian campus
The University of Malta plans to open an international university near the centre of Rome. Students will pay about Pounds 7,500 a year to attend the Link Campus University of Malta, where they will...
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World watch
One in five German students has never heard of bachelor or master degrees nearly a year after the titles were introduced into Germany's higher education system. Only one in eight students said they...
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World watch
The third oldest known Etruscan text, dating from the late 3rd or 4th century BC, has been identified by archaeologist Francesco Nicosia and Luciano Agostiniani, professor of historical linguistics...
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Job adverts put college in court
A university in the Canary Islands is being taken to court over allegations that its practice of advertising jobs at the height of the holiday season discriminates against external candidates. The...
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Quota keeps unis out of Cypriot fair
The British Council has limited the size of a university recruiting mission to Cyprus next month in an attempt to safeguard the reputation of British higher education on the island. A large number of...
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Irish pundits clash over student numbers
The Irish government is facing contradictory predictions over the number of full-time higher education students likely to enrol in the future. Currently the figure stands at about 105,000, but the...