Parasites get a leg-up on pest grasshoppers
An insect whose lifestyle sounds like something from a B-movie could be a godsend for the palm oil growers of Papua New Guinea, writes Caroline Davis. The parasite, which lives and reproduces inside...
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Ukrainian plan riles reformers
Ukrainian campaigners for reform in higher education plan to challenge a sweeping government nation-building education doctrine that, they believe, will do little more than consolidate the existing...
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Barefoot accolades
(Photograph) - The Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, is one of nine recipients of this year's $500,000 (£343,000) Aga Khan Architectural Awards. The college has worked with local teachers,...
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Oz spin-offs drawing scrutiny
Australian universities' A$2 billion (£700 million) a year in non-government revenue is under increasingly critical scrutiny by state governments, their auditors general and a senate committee. In a...
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Council defiance endangers Unisa's funds
The University of South Africa (Unisa) may lose its state subsidy and face court action because it has defied government requests not to appoint a vice-chancellor until after a merger with other...
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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...