Glittering prizes
David Atkinson , director of academic affairs at the Scottish Agricultural College, has been awarded a British Crop Protection Council medal. The Society for General Microbiology has awarded the...
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On the move
Peter Briggs , chief executive of the British Association, has been appointed pro-rector of the University of Surrey, Roehampton . The University of Wales, Cardiff , has appointed: Adrian Phillips ,...
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In the news
The increasingly intimate love-in between 10 Downing Street and BP chief executive John Browne will be watched with anxious interest by vice-chancellors. Suggestions this week that Lord Browne,...
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Who's watching whom?
The Diary detects a certain amount of schadenfreude among staff at City University. The recent fire has forced certain senior members of staff to share an open-plan office - vice-chancellor David...
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Osama's bin'ad
Is there a spark of wry scientific humour beneath the al-Qaeda turban? Documents recovered from the terrorist organisation's abandoned Kabul offices seemed to reveal plans to build a thermonuclear...
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A wider look at Leeds
Leeds Metropolitan University must be licking its wounds. Higher education minister Margaret Hodge this week wrote an article in The Yorkshire Post about how wonderful Leeds is at increasing access,...
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E for exit-strategy?
Herbert Van de Sompel has quit as director of e-strategy and programmes at the British Library 11 weeks after taking up the job. Dr Van de Sompel, who spent nearly two decades as head of library...
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No ceiling in this job
Robin Morse has quit as head of King's College London's law school, with the reason rumoured to be the somewhat unsavoury state of the school's buildings. The final straw is reported to have been...
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Ta ta to Mockintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh is being abandoned by the Glasgow School of Art. The school is ditching the Mackintosh style in its logo and publicity material for a "stunning new corporate identity". This...
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Don's Diary
Sunday In East Berlin - yes, it still exists 11 years after the fall of the wall - the clocks really do tick differently. We are sitting at a café near our flat in Prenzlauer Berg, the Primrose Hill...
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Elite come before equality
Despite its 'openness', the best French higher education is tailored for the middle classes, Ruth Morse writes. The French higher education system has never been entirely free and open but it has...
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Eyewitness: California boosts diversity
Starting this month, students with top academic credentials seeking to enter the University of California will no longer be guaranteed places. In the boldest attempt yet by a US institution to...
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Universities drowning under dual tidal waves
If the treasury keeps making academic judgements, it may have no universities left. I will not say that relations between universities and the state have never been as bad as they are in this country...
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No icon, just the words talking
Sylvia Plath
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How Napoleon went to 'take an idea for a walk' and conquered Europe
Napoleon the Novelist