Bottoms up, Christine!
Spotted in Yorkshire last week were Christine and Neil Hamilton, attending a University of York Wine Society reception, after Christine - who graduated from York - agreed to be patron of the society...
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Randall does himself justice
After policing standards in higher education and enforcing rough justice, former quality boss John Randall has moved on to a fitting new role. He has been appointed chair of the Justice Sector Skills...
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OU scores an own goal
The Open University is cashing in on David Beckham's transfer to Real Madrid by offering free places for him and his wife on its new beginners' Spanish course. The Diary wonders whether this is wise...
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Thoroughly modernized
Who says Cambridge University is stuck in the past, unable to shake off hundreds of years of good old British tradition? Oh no, the university has put all that behind it and is embracing the 21st...
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Don's diary: Forging a tradition, Not following in one
March: Monday First day on the job as principal of Queen Margaret University College. Why am I here? My career has been spent in large, research-intensive, well-endowed, self-confident and...
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Don't pulp the past
The British Library may be short of space but destroying rare material is untenable, says Richard Grove This story begins in the Australian National Library in Canberra in March 2002. "No," the...
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EU grass greener and cleaner
Andrew Jordan says the green lobby should push the environmental virtues of the EU Of all the main political groupings in Britain today, the environmental movement has one of the strongest reasons to...
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Pulped books spark fury
Details of thousands of irreplaceable research documents pulped by the British Library as part of a books disposal programme emerged this week, sparking outrage among academics. A 123-page document,...
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Just 10 students may blight careers
The views of ten students could be enough to make or break the reputations of university departments and the academics who work in them, according to a consultants' report on the planned annual...
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Top universities face cash crisis
The UK's leading universities could be casualties of a financial "black hole" as they await the income from top-up fees. Eric Thomas, vice-chancellor of Bristol University, has predicted that...
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Government giving no ground on top-up fees as rebellion grows
Top-up fees are non-negotiable, the government said this week as it faced a growing backbench rebellion over higher education and student funding plans. A senior government source told The THES it...
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The poor are better off with Labour than Tories, says IFS
Government plans to charge tuition fees of up to £3,000 a year are fairer to the poor than Conservative proposals to abolish fees altogether, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said this week. The IFS...
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Next week
Student depression The human cost of the government's higher education policies Warmonger Ariel Sharon's violent policies are attacked in an incendiary new book by Jewish academic Baruch Kimmerling...
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It's Plato for the 'dumb' generation
Discovering how much students knew about the world helped Roger Ottewill learn new ways to teach politics Lecturers frequently express surprise at how little students know about the world about them...
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Fellows: on the front line
Pat Leon asks a winner of this year's National Teaching Fellowship Awards how he manages Name: Allan Owens Age: 46 Job: Senior lecturer in drama and theatre studies at Chester College of Higher...