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Plus ca change? A still politically-active alumnus of early 1970s Sussex University, cherishing memories of days when the Falmer campus's public spaces were "like one giant wall newspaper"...
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Exam jitters extend to next term
A strike by state university lecturers and researchers that wreaked havoc with exams in Portugal last month is threatening to spill over into the next academic year. The three-week strike over...
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Baptists rejig dance ruling
After 150 years, the largest Baptist university in the United States has lifted a ban on dancing. But the 12,000-student Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has promised to keep a tight lid on "lewd or...
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Clues to third cancer gene
The team that isolated the second breast cancer gene last year has evidence that there is a third breast cancer gene. Mike Stratton, of the Institute of Cancer Research, said this week that an...
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Savage at school helm
Vice chancellors should beware of Nigel Savage. He is about to take the helm of a new "university" and is out to get a nice slice of their business, writes Tony Tysome. Professor Savage, one of the...
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De Boishue book sparks race row
A heated row has blown up over allegedly racist passages in a book written by France's secretary of state for higher education, Jean de Boishue. The opposition Socialist Party has called for his...
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Postgraduates strike back
Postgraduates are becoming more demanding. They are fed up with poor supervision; they are waking up to the fact that they have intellectual property rights; they are becoming more ingenious about...
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Mystery of star pupil's rejection
A senior lecturer at Staffordshire University has called medical schools' selection processes into question after his son's four As at A level brought him 20 rejections. Mohammed Al-Mousawi is...
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Different strokes
The latest term of abuse among US academics, according to psychologist Stuart Anstiss, is a "Monet" - "someone who looks good from a distance but a mess from close up". He told a meeting that he had...
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Fax alert
While we do not know about the staff, there appears to be a crisis of morale among the office equipment at the CVCP. Staff were shocked last week when two police officers burst in and dashed up the...
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Research formula will reward elite
FUNDING council chiefs unveiled a radically more selective system for sharing out research cash to English universities this week. The values that the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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V-c award
"After the way he organised and ran his session, he is probably going to end up as a vice chancellor" was one participant's comment on a British panel organiser at the International History Congress...
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Walden found office unedifying
Retiring Conservative MP George Walden's disillusionment with party politics began during his spell as minister for higher education. Mr Walden, who this week announced his decision not to stand...
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6 May 2005