Brush strokes
The world's most exciting gathering of mathematicians ever takes place at Oxford University next week. The topic? Well, according to Oxford University's press office the mathematicians will be "...
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Trees a crowd
Wishful thinking on the part of Aberdeen University's students association? Its motion to tomorrow's National Union of Students' Scottish conference, on "urgent environmental issues", warns that...
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On your honour
This week's prize for maintaining the value of honorary awards by keeping them scarce goes to the University of Edinburgh, which announced last week that it will be awarding 24 honorary degrees in...
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Cherie picking
Following the Daily Express's characteristically discreet, low-key appeal for dirt on the early life of Cherie Booth QC, aka the other half of the leader of Her Majesty's Very Loyal Opposition, we...
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Geologists pave way for shoppers
Tomorrow, on the floor of Central Milton Keynes shopping mall, geologist Jill Eyers will be crawling around with a magnifying glass, trying to interest passers-by in its geological history. The floor...
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When the face fits
(Photograph) - When the face fits: Glasgow School of Art student Dagfin Aksness (left) inspects a pupil's work during an architecture and design masterclass, part of the Glasgow Festival of Visual...
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Aussie pay rise is 'long overdue'
The Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee has warned the nation's new Conservative government that a burning issue facing the higher education sector is the claim by 80,000 university staff for a...
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Reign in Spain has changed
In the wake of the recent general elections, academics in Spain are following political developments with a keen interest. Many are trying to gauge what the coming of a right-wing government, after...
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V-cs in NZ lobby for more funds
Vice chancellors will lobby hard for more funding in the run-up to New Zealand's first election under its new polling system. Leslie Holborow, chairman of the vice chancellors' committee, said that...
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Student vanguard faces British barricade
A pioneering group of 16 first and second-year students on a degree course with a British university have become a total anomaly by studying entirely outside the country. The students are taking a...
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Mind the plumage
It was said of Edmund Burke, the 18th- century political thinker, that he pitied the plumage while forgetting the dying bird. A thinking Conservative, he would have appreciated the Labour party's...
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Do the genes have it?
It is easier to destroy trust than it is to build it up - a principle coined by the social scientists as the "asymmetry of trust" some time ago. Someone ought to coin a similar phrase about the...
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Waiting for Dearing will take too long
In her otherwise excellent article on the task facing Sir Ron Dearing (THES, March 8), Lucy Hodges misses an important distinction. While it may be true that the review has bought time for the...
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Teams track school violence
A flare-up of violence in and around French schools has put the spotlight on a French research programme commissioned a year ago by the ministries of education and of the interior, writes Stella...
