Glittering prizes
Beverley Naidoo , a visiting fellow at Southampton University's research and graduate school of education, has won the Carnegie Medal for children's literature for her novel The Other Side of Truth...
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On the move
Kevin Boyle , director of Essex University's Human Rights Centre, has been appointed senior adviser to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights . He will hold the post for a year from...
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What's in a name?
A desperate email has gone out from Universities UK to its members in anticipation of a host of inquiries over the summer on - eeek - higher education. It needs to know which universities have...
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Big Brother with essays
The University of Kent at Canterbury seems to have decided that associations with 24-hour surveillance, nightmare housemates and boredom relieved only by occasional pointless tasks is just the thing...
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It's a fair cop(y), gov
Covert copiers trying to avoid royalty payments could feel the strong arm of the law. The Copyright Licensing Authority has appointed a new compliance officer, Peter Knight, who spent 28 years in the...
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Oh yes you were!
Inspectors appointed by the Quality Assurance Agency to assess teaching in philosophy have criticised the QAA's failure to defend them from a THES article in which it was alleged that they operated a...
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No cocktails, but tea and sympathy
Being an admissions officer is bad for your teeth, says Anne Maddox in the second in our series from the grass roots. Ah, summer, oh what does it mean to you? Long sunny days in Tuscany perhaps, or...
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In the news: Antinori and Zavos
Severino Antinori (main picture) and Panos Michael Zavos are pioneers of reproductive cloning and, as befits their controversial status, public opinion about the men could not be more diverse. Hailed...
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Forces combined for good
With more academic support, NGOs will continue to be potent agents for social change, says Brenda Gourley. The Salzburg Seminar bills itself as "one of the world's foremost international centres...
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Eyewitness: re-writing Russia's cold war history
Ten years after the cold war's end, Russia's rising young historians are working with US and western European researchers to re-evaluate 40 years of frosty East-West relations with the help of...
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Irish geographer finds football fame
Australian sport's newest and unlikeliest star is an Irishman who is studying at the University of New South Wales. Tadhg Kennelly, 20, from Listowel, County Kerry, had never seen a game of...
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Swedes leave Danes in pain
Swedish medical students attending Danish universities are giving Denmark's education and health ministers a headache. Although Denmark lacks doctors, Copenhagen, Aarhus and South Denmark...
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Wine and jazz woo academic nomads
Research into neurobiology laced with visits to Bordeaux vineyards; seminars on European enterprise combined with jazz and Paris museums; studies on the communications society complemented by guided...
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Nigeria's frilled and braided given dressing down
Students at the University of Lagos College of Medicine have been asked to conform to an official dress code. A circular signed by Christopher Isiekwenagbu, student affairs officer, says: "Ladies...
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Latvians under fire for essays' race jibes
An essay competition for young Latvians has caused a political storm with critics branding it chauvinistic and anti-Russian. Critics claim the entries, collated into a book by the Vieda publishing...