Beard beyond belief
The Diary is pleased to bring you investigative reporting at its best. Last week, the Labour Party website hosted an online chat with education secretary Charles Clarke. He was asked by student Simon...
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Tradesmen's entrance exam
The government's plans to finally achieve parity of esteem between academic and vocational qualifications through its new 14-to-19 reforms have evidently resulted in some radical thinking among...
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Cheats had amps in their pants
Fifty-eight Thai college students have been arrested for allegedly cheating during an exam by hiding pagers in their underwear. Police say the pagers were set to vibrate with answers to multiple-...
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Don's Diary: Rescuing childhoods in Gaza
Sunday Breaking news of a suicide bombing at our destination in Tel Aviv ripples down the plane. This incident interrupts a period of several weeks of relative calm in Israel. It is my first visit to...
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Why I...think that increased debt will discourage poorer students
Since 2000, we have been conducting a three-year study into law students' attitudes to debt. Surprisingly, the first-year data showed that, regardless of type of institution, more than 56 per cent of...
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Top pay for top dogs
Grow up, says Andrew Oswald. Vice-chancellors deserve high salaries for all the work they do I was in a meeting of senior business people in London last week. They wanted to know what university...
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Mona Baker's double standard
How can she justify her boycott as a 'private citizen' yet sack me for being a 'public' representative of Israel? asks Gideon Toury Over the past few days I have been bombarded with electronic copies...
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Single mind suffers double vision
Following the union of Guildhall and North London universities, John Shaw looks at the pros and cons of merger When universities merge, teaching staff might feel they inhabit a Lewis Carroll universe...
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On the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Caroline Baillie Age: Definitely five, sometimes 100. Job: Deputy director of the UK Centre for Materials Education...
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Graduate jobs data deemed flawed
Performance indicators designed to measure universities' success in getting graduates into work are worthless, a professor of economics who has studied the formula and pronounced it fundamentally...
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EU cash is poisoned chalice, says UK
UK researchers are afraid to apply for funding from Europe in case they are too successful, the House of Commons science and technology committee has heard. European Framework funding was viewed as a...
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Scientists claim shuttle 'not vital'
The loss of the space shuttle Columbia may have been a human tragedy but many US scientists say its impact on research is less than catastrophic, despite the loss of more than 100 on-board...
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Peerless secretarial skills
Former Cabinet minister and Labour Party stalwart Barbara Castle, who died last year aged 91, has left the original transcript of her Cabinet diaries from the 1960s to the University of Bradford....
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Appointments
Susan Baker , a reader in social sciences at Cardiff University, has been appointed King Carl XVI Gustaf's professor of environmental sciences for 2003-04 based at Umeå University, Sweden. The...
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Union fury as v-cs pocket 6% pay rise
Vice-chancellors have accepted far greater pay rises than the increases given to their staff. University heads got a median rise of 6 per cent last year, according to a survey by The THES . Some 33...