Stars on the wane
Fashion is fickle. No sooner has foreign secretary Robin Cook been seen sporting the star-splattered tie celebrating Britain's presidency of the European Union than government officials have declared...
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Low modesty count
Alumnus to be proud of No 155 clearly needs more to do. Count Yves-Thibault de Silguy already has one job that many might regard as full-time: European commissioner in charge of monetary union. But...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Odd. I thought I was flying to Bombay but my ticket says "Mumbai". Appearance and reality are very different in India. The only people to call Bombay "Mumbai" are foreigners. However, working...
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Awards
The Landscape Institute. The Southeast Regional Research Laboratory in Birkbeck College, University of London's geography department, received two awards for the National Landscape Character Map of...
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Dollying up
(Photograph) - Dollying up: Fleece from the world's first cloned sheep is to be spun into yarn by Leeds University's school of textile industries and then used to make the first "cloned" woollen...
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Institutions build blind
Universities and colleges are spending billions of pounds on building projects without properly assessing whether they need them, the National Audit Office has said. Few institutions regularly...
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Lecturer kills self to avoid court date
A University of Ulster lecturer committed suicide a few days before he was due to appear in court last June on charges of possessing indecent photographs of children. An inquest in Belfast heard that...
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Overseas controls at Swansea 'very flawed'
An unknown number of blank Swansea Institute examination certificates were printed and distributed in Malaysia due to the institute's "seriously flawed" overseas control arrangements, a report...
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Academics condemn Cambridge reform plan
Cambridge University's plans to reform its procedures for promoting staff have received a battering from academics, writes Phil Baty. The plans, which include promoting about 300 lecturers to a new...
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AUT probes branch boss
Cambridge lecturer Gill Evans has accused her Association of University Teachers branch president of conducting a "campaign of personal vilification" against her. The AUT is investigating the claim....
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Bradbury charts creative sea change
A GREY light, washed from the sea, picked out the animated figures of academics, community workers and writers as they debated the future of creative writing among the cliff-top buildings of the...
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Humanities awards shake-up
A SHAKE-UP of a Pounds 4 million postgraduate award scheme is planned by the British Academy's Humanities Research Board. Managed by the Department for Education and Employment for more than 20 years...
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Case study one: an off-year to pay the bills
MICHELLE Polley, 35, pictured above, was a secretary in Oxford when she decided to take an NVQ in childcare. She went on to an access course at a local further education college at the suggestion of...
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Case study two: watching managers at M&S
RICHARD Jolliffe isone of six pre-pilot guinea-pigs. Now in the second year of a social and managementsciences course, which has no inbuilt work experience, he has drawn on his job for Marks and...
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Broad Left revival
A BROAD left-wing alliance of students will challenge Labour Students' leadership of the National Union of Students at its annual conference in late March. Carolyne Culver, a member of the NUS...