Old papal haunts get a facelift
The University of Viterbo, one of Italy's youngest state universities, is taking over and restoring some of the most interesting medieval and renaissance buildings in the old Papal stronghold of...
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Rectors enter French fray
University presidents stepped into the student-led fray over reforms in French higher education with their own list of demands and a flat rejection of at least one proposal by education minister...
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Campus rabbis in sedition probe
Bar-Ilan University, one of whose law students murdered Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, has set up a committee headed by a retired judge to investigate claims of extremism on campus. The...
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Rich elite to get richer
The English funding council took its first step towards linking funding to its controversial teaching asses-sment exercise this week by announcing that the allocation of Pounds 4 million through a...
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Poverty protest
The National Union of Students organised a march to protest at increasing student hardship on Thursday. At a rally in Kennington Park, London, NUS president Jim Murphy said: "We are calling on the...
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Rich pickings
Wealthy, white and well-connected students are still much more likely to succeed in the law than their less well-heeled peers from ethnic minorities, according to a survey published by the Law...
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Research spend
Industrial expenditure on R&D in 1994 increased by 5 per cent to Pounds 9.5 billion in cash terms compared to 1993, according to figures published this week by the Central Statistical Office....
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Lords of the faculties
Three academics are among the 11 life peers announced last week who will bolster the main parties' working strength in the House of Lords. John Sewel, vice principal of Aberdeen University and Robert...
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Rooker attacks loss of entry data
The Government came under fire this week for scrapping the collection and publication of data on the proportion of school-leavers from state and independent schools intending to enter higher...
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Merrily high
Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Participants in the Slovenian studies day held on Saturday at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London's Senate House found it tolled for them, and...
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Wake up
(Photograph) - Wake up: Theatre company Bodies in Flight invited audiences to a wake at Nottingham Trent University's Bonnington Gallery this month, as they performed "Littlun's Wake".
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Nolan told of governing network
Universities are operating "closed" and "incestuous" processes for the appointment of governing body members which raise important questions about accountability, the Nolan committee on standards in...
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And two makes . . .
Details of the 1993 shake-up of the research councils prompted by the science White Paper of that year appear to be taking some time to filter through to our friends on the continent. In a report for...
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Howard's beginning
Alumni to be proud of No. 20 is that well-known son of Romanian Jewish refugees Michael Hecht, now known to the police, and the electorate, as Michael Howard. His compassion towards displaced people...
