Glittering prizes
Former United States senator George Mitchell, 66, chair of the commission that produced the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland and recently appointed chancellor of Queen's, Belfast, has...
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Weathering a Soros storm
James Sadkovich describes his disillusion with the management of the American University in Bulgaria Named after the founder of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Blagoevgrad is a small town tucked into...
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World watch
Rome More than 400 Italian academics have signed a declaration against human cloning and sent it to the Pope. Bruno Dallapiccola, genetics professor at Tor Vergata University in Rome, said: "The...
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World watch
Moscow Academician Abel Aganbegyan, one of the principal architects of perestroika in the former Soviet Union, has been charged with "stealing" two buildings belonging to the Academy of the National...
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World watch
Durham A former instructor at North Carolina Central University, Durham, has been convicted of passing a student in exchange for a television set and video game system. Zoology lecturer Vonda Reed...
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Quark negative
Most software vendors approached by the Combined Higher Education Software Team accept that academic discounts are a cheap way of buying mindshare among tomorrow's decision makers. But after months...
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Danger mouse?
The Health and Safety Executive is funding a two-year study by Loughborough and Surrey universities on possible health risks of computer devices such as touch screens, joysticks and the mouse.
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Keele University
Keele University has 17 not 70 staff earning more than Pounds 50,000 (THES, February 5) and the figure for D. Vaughan at the Cumbria College of Art and Design included the employer's pension...
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Eye witness
Spain has contested the status of Gibraltar for almost 300 years. Last week's rumble of gun-boat diplomacy and scenes of traffic queuing at Spanish customs are a further chapter in the saga of...
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War on red tape in city of angels
Bangkok Thailand's capital is blessed with an ancient title that is the longest place name in the world, and reputedly cursed with some of the longest traffic jams. But Thais believe no one can curse...
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Chernobyl's legacy stays
Belarus is tightening up on compulsory two-year work-placements for state university graduates. From now on graduates who fail to report for their work placements or quit in the two years will have...
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EU dashes hopes of Gulf academic exchanges
An academic co-operation project linking Arab and European universities is facing collapse after EU ministers refused to agree its E432,000 (Pounds 300,000) budget. Gerd Nonneman, senior lecturer in...
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SCT sued for Pounds 10M
British Gas Trading is bringing a Pounds 10 million lawsuit against SCT, a company that has more than 1,280 educational institutions in 26 countries as customers. BGT claims that SCT failed to...
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Funding council gets tough on franchising
A clampdown on franchise provision has been announced by the Further Education Funding Council. Funding Council cash for franchising will be cut by one third in 1999-2000, except where colleges are...
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No saving
Student-owned computers will not bring significant cost savings for institutions, according to a Joint Information Systems Committee management briefing paper. The reduced need for shared computer...