Glittering prizes
The University of Bournemouth will award honorary degrees to: former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown ; Mike Milne , director of animation at the FrameStore computer animation company; Sarah...
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Nudity latest
The University of Southampton is trying to keep up appearances. Not to be outdone by the Alley Catz of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, whose drunken streaking across the quad made lurid headlines...
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It could be u-niversity
Ian Lovecy, senior strategy adviser at the University of Wales, Bangor, has hit on a novel way of selling higher education to people with no experience of it. Use the language of the lottery, he...
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Spaces unfulfilled
Long before chancellor Gordon Brown started to flirt with taxing car-parking spaces at work, Tim O'Shea, master of Birkbeck College in central London, solved the parking problem more radically. He...
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Peep show in principle
Today sees the opening of an exhibition at Leeds Metropolitan University gallery titled "Landscape trauma in the age of scopophilia". It is far from being devoted to singing the praises of college...
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Straw poll
William Straw, son of foreign secretary Jack Straw, is hoping to follow in his father's footsteps as a student activist. He is standing as an independent candidate for election next week as president...
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Turtlenecks all round
Tortoises preparing to hibernate were this week offered free health checks by the University of Edinburgh. Staff at the university's Easter Bush Veterinary Hospital - the only vet school in the...
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Randall disciple quits
It's all change at the Quality Assurance Agency. The Diary has learned that the director of administration, Stewart Bushell, has just handed in his notice and plans to return to the Law Society. Mr...
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Taking the 12ps
The Student Loans Company has hit on a new revenue stream. A student who accidentally repaid the company more than the value of her loan was told that the company was "not sure it's possible" to...
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Broers speaks too soon
Poor Sir Alec Broers, vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge. After promising to "address the university's shortcomings" following last week's report that criticised the botched introduction...
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In the news: Peter Warry
The name of Peter Warry, who was this week appointed chairman of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, may not ring many bells. His role as chairman of Victrex plc, which describes...
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Not greedy, merely needy
Tertiary education is key to future economic success so where's the funding? asks Bryan Gould Universities have few political friends. On the right, they are seen as constantly holding out their...
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Don's diary
Monday Not a good start to my first day in a new job. I arrive at work to find I have left my official university tie trailing out of the back door of the car, dragging it through the rain and grime...
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Eyewitness: Australian elections
For the first time in a decade, a major political party in Australia has placed education at the top of its election agenda. Labor leader Kim Beazley has promised a Labor government would spend...
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Help make trade rules or get stung at market
As the WTO's Doha conference opens, Eric Froment says universities must ensure their interests are looked after. Debate about globalisation and the role of the World Trade Organisation is common and...