Don's diary
Sunday I am awakened at 9am by a telephone call from my friend Basil in the Innu community of Sheshatshiu, Labrador. He tells me that the 15-year-old son of Napes Ashini has just shot himself. Napes...
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A flying start
It was just one of those days for Howard Newby, president of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, whose plane was grounded on a visit to the United States last week. Professor Newby was...
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Early learning
New videoconferencing resources have brought the joys - and some of the problems - of globalisation to De Montfort University. A series of lectures by young scientists, as part of the distance-...
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Mayoville address
A sterling performance at the National Union of Students' first further education student governors conference earned admiration all round for David Melville, chief executive of the Further Education...
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Get active
Worried that your hunt saboteuring skills may be a bit rusty? Why not brush up on them with a course in animal activism? London Animal Action recently provided "animal rights skills day" at the...
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Sir Richard Sykes
When plans to merge Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham collapsed two years ago, Sir Richard Sykes blamed "different cultures and different management styles". Others said it was Sir Richard's...
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On the Move
Tim Clark, pro-rector (educational quality) and professor of pulmonary medicine at Imperial College will be its first provost at Wye. He will take up the post following the formal merger of Wye...
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Glittering prizes
John Proops, professor of ecological economics at Keele University, has been elected president of the International Society for Ecological Economics from 2002 for two years. Maxwell Irvine, vice-...
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Eyewitness
Konrad Kalejs is back in Australia after leaving Britain while under suspicion of war crimes in Nazi-occupied Latvia. He has again denied any involvement in the events. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre in...
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Child of the 20th century
The 21st will reveal its university lineage just as the 20th century did, writes Sheldon Rothblatt. Do dates such as 1900 or 2000 have any particular significance for understanding changes in...
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Prague
The Catholic priest elected to lead Charles University theological faculty is unacceptable to academic and church authorities. Vaclav Wolf has led the faculty for several years but, although elected...
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People's campus shuts door
Unlike other United States universities, New York's City College has not charged tuition fees since it was established in 1847. It simply insists that its students - mainly the poor, minorities and...
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Church caught in Islamic threat
A thaw in relations between Greece and Turkey could result in the reopening of a theological college for orthodox priests in Istanbul closed nearly 30 years ago. The Theological School of Halki,...
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Monash widens its global net to South Africa
Australia's biggest university, Monash, has become one of only two foreign institutions to receive South African government approval to operate a campus in that country. Monash University South...
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Outpost in Malaysia aims for 10,000 students
Monash University Malaysia (MUSM), the first offshore campus of Monash University, Australia, says it is going to build a much larger campus in Bandar Sunway within two years, writes Geoffrey Parkins...