School for homeless attracts top brains
Academics, homeless people and grassroots militants are holding the inaugural session of a "University against Exclusion" this weekend in premises taken over by a Parisian homeless action group last...
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Mission impossible begs big answers
Survival is not guaranteed in the college sector any more. There are known to have been at-risk lists in higher education for well over a decade. Indeed last week the Public Accounts Committee was...
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Small is perfect for expertise
Should research funding be confined to a few large universities? A number of vice chancellors believe so. Derek Roberts, the provost of University College, says that the number of designated research...
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Missing variations on a funding theme with a bitter twist of experience
It was characteristically generous of Peter Knight (THES, January 13) to acknowledge, as we have been reassuring him for three years, that the Higher Education Funding Council for England's funding...
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Beauty and beast
(Photograph) - Beauty and beast: Aberdeen University is to create a database of mediaeval images from the Aberdeen Bestiary, an illuminated manuscript dating from around 1200, supported by a Pounds...
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Me old, old china
The sort of academic who forces us to question our very origins has struck again, this time at the root of the North Staffordshire pottery industry. Rodney Hampson, research fellow at Keele...
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Three-sided view
"Reading in Triangles" is the title of an inaugural lecture next week at the university of the same name next week. But before readers ask how many are eternal, they should know that Naomi Segal,...
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Row over College of Law tie
The Law Society is taking a fresh look at its links with the College of Law in London after an academic threatened to complain about their "special relationship" to the Office of Fair Trading. Law...
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Slippery soap
The Association for Colleges recently came up with the idea of using soap operas to sell the idea of lifetime education. Antithesis is looking for prime time titles: Dundee University has already...
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Scared but rich
Coming soon to Regent's College, an international conference on paranoia and persecution with speakers including Norman Stone. Registration is Pounds 150 -- or Pounds 300 if you want a ticket for the...
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Warwick joins fellowship elite
Oxbridge students have long spoken about the college-based postdoctoral step of the academic ladder in exclusive, knowing terms. It is not a junior research fellowship but a "JRF". Soon, however,...
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Missing variations on a funding theme with a bitter twist of experience
Gordon Kirk (THES, January 6), raises two issues which need to be resolved regarding the external examiner system -- the duality of role as external examiner and course consultant, and the duality of...
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Too much Merlot, too little Marlowe
One of the effects of the Thatcherian managerial revolution in the new universities has been to create a class of senior-level managers which awards itself generous "remission" from teaching. In many...
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Applied philosophy
Stella Hughes talks to Isabelle Stengers, the Belgian scientist who dared to doubt. In the often acrimonious dispute over the social role of science, few enter the fray having chosen laughter as...
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Liberte, egalite, venalite
According to political scientist Yves Meny, the recent corruption scandals in France have very deep roots. Anne Corbett reports. As the wave of French corruption allegations known as "Les Affaires"...