Reluctance to `green' speaks volumes
The "greening" of the higher education curriculum is being resisted because it is seen as a form of political correctness although activists in other areas influence the curriculum unchallenged...
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Peer review found lacking
A Dutch study to be unveiled next week in London will propose a radical approach to defining and assessing research to address the changing relationship between science, technology and society. The...
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Pulling Power
(Photograph) - Pulling Power: Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, the former Black Panther who hijacked a plane to escape an FBI shoot-to-kill order, was given a standing ovation when he spoke at the London School...
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Quarrels with a quarry
Religion is to be invoked in the fight against a superquarry on the Hebridean island of Harris. Alastair McIntosh of Edinburgh University's centre for human ecology plans to argue about the integrity...
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Blueprint for a brighter future
Education is the most important thing of all. With it you can get a job and move up the social ladder." I heard these words spoken by Nadia, a sixth-former, when, as chair of the Commission on Social...
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Davies rises in Shadow shuffle
Higher education spokesman Bryan Davies has been promoted within Labour's shadow team. Mr Davies, who succeeded Jeff Rooker in the role last year, was given shadow minister status in the reshuffle...
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Channel spoil heap transformed into grassland
Ecologists have turned a four-million-tonne pile of spoil from the Channel Tunnel into a grassland which they hope will become an important conservation area. The idea, to build a big platform at the...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. A disastrous start: because of the rail dispute I missed the Heathrow British Airways morning flight to Moscow. Failure to negotiate a transfer to Aeroflot was a relief: instead made an...
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Appointments
ROSE BRUFORD COLLEGE Peter Oyston, former director of the Playbox Theatre Company, Melbourne, to head school of theatre. UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL Richard Hodder-Williams has succeeded Christopher...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW Research grant Robert Turnbull and Kenway Smith, Pounds 2.3 million from the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (the state of the universe in the first fraction of...
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Past Masters
I was the only child of working-class parents in the small moorland town of Leek, Staffs. Not surprisingly, I found Oxford in the late 1950s an alarming prospect. Everyone else seemed not only far...
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Speaking Volumes
Who is, or was K. B. Sandved? I am ashamed to say that I do not know, and doubly ashamed that, until now, it has never occurred to me to ask. Yet that name has been whispered in my memory like some...
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Chairs
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE Michael Artis (professor of economics, University of Manchester) to the joint chair in economics; Stefano Bartolini (professor, department of political science at...
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Events
IMAGES OF CONFLICT Work by recent war artists will be exhibited at the Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University, from October 10 to December 13. The exhibition offers a selection of contemporary art...
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Assessment and audit in disrepute
The University of Wolverhampton has become the first higher education institution to receive a Government Charter Mark for its high quality services. Apparently Cabinet office assessors were...