Plato's outed
Glasgow University students clearly have little time for the Platonic ideal. A poster put up by the Campaign for the Highest Education, promoting Plato's view that "The life without examination is a...
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Cash sweeteners
The most innocent gesture is in danger of being misconstrued these days amid concern over standards in public life. At the Scotcat lunch, Jim MacCallum, vice principal of St Andrews University,...
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Experience counts
Not just a historian, but the heaven-sent (by way of Texas) dream of the lonely octogenarian. Young Cambridge historian Bryan Rigg, whose research on German Jews found an original and effective...
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Absolutely zonkers
Both an alumnus to be proud of (no 80 in the series) and a practitioner of the literary sideswipe is Sean Thomas, son of novelist D. M.Thomas and a graduate of University College London's Bartlett...
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Esteve-Coll is to retire
Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll (pictured right) is to take early retirement from her post as vice chancellor of University of East Anglia after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She arrived in...
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The biggest book move in history
(Photograph) - On the move: Workmen help carry out the biggest book move in history, as 12 million books and manuscripts begin their migration from Bloomsbury to the shelves of the new Pounds 511...
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OU links up with islands
The Open University has signed a partnership agreement with the University of the Highlands and Islands which will boost UHI's bid to secure degree-awarding powers in its own right. The UHI project...
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Postgrad loan plan
Eleven universities are planning to launch a new postgraduate loan scheme. But postgraduates have dismissed the idea as a mere marketing ploy. The universities, from the research-based 94 Group, are...
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Privatisation of research establishments is slated
The Government's privatisation probe of more than 40 public sector research establishments has been slammed as "profoundly unsatisfactory" by MPs. A report published this week by the Commons science...
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Sports students to hit jackpot
Up to 4,500 lottery-funded sports scholarships are to be created for elite British competitors, the Department for National Heritage announced following last week's budget. Precise levels of funding...
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Don's Diary
THE WEEK began with a day spent in Warwick, preparing for what seems increasingly like an exercise in futility: preparatory meetings for a teaching quality assessment visit the following week that...
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All quiet on Serbian front pages
BELGRADE media loyal to the Serbian government ignored the largest demonstrations in the country's recent history last week. While most students were actively supporting the the protests, state-owned...
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Paymaster calls the wrong pension tune
IT WAS once said of Sir Keith Joseph that he not only had the capacity to shoot himself in the foot but, worse still, he could hit his left foot while aiming for his right one. The ghost of Sir Keith...
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Farid the fair and faithful
South African lecturer Farid Esack is one of a rare breed, the radical Muslim, unafraid to challenge Islamic prejudice. His appointment to the new Gender Equality Commission is all grist to the mill...
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A First glass honour
Sunderland and Dan Klein share a passion for glass. And, as one of the first professors in the subject, he tells Harriet Swain about his love of collecting and the new National Glass Centre being...