In the news: Maggie Woodrow
Education secretary Estelle Morris's acceptance that the perception of student debt was preventing many people from going to university would have been welcome to Maggie Woodrow. Ms Woodrow, who was...
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On the move
The University of Warwick appointed: Carol Aubrey , formerly of Canterbury Christ Church University College, professor of education; Alma Harris , previously of the University of Nottingham,...
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Snubbed by St Andrews
St Andrews University has notched up another claim to exclusivity. It is the only institution in the United Kingdom to snub the e-university. Some 70 universities, 17 directly funded schools and...
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Cnut is no B'Stard
Rik Mayall is to make a television comeback as a scheming university professor. He will play Adonis Cnut - pronounced "Canute" - in a follow-up to his role as sleazy Tory MP Alan B'Stard. Professor...
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Students from St Andrews University this week achieved the worst score so far in the current series of BBC quiz show University Challenge. The team scored 40 points while Churchill College, Cambridge...
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Token gesture
Congratulations to Paul Mackney, general secretary of lecturers' union Natfhe and winner of this week's First Impressions. Mr Mackney identified the opening lines of The Black Jacobins by Marxist...
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Catering for everyone
Heriot-Watt University's caterers have won an award under the Scottish healthy choices scheme, run by the Health Education Board for Scotland and the Scottish Consumer Council. Lothian Health Board...
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Singing for a sup or two
Ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney is to do a poetry reading in exchange for a case of wine at the University of East Anglia next month. Sir Paul will read from Blackbird Singing, a new anthology of his...
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Dressed for success?
The Diary extends a warm welcome to the fresh-faced and floppy-fringed Mary Stacey, the new independent chair of the national pay negotiating machinery for higher education. Ms Stacey looks far...
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Currency before exchange
UK universities prefer fee-paying students to European ones. Anne Corbett laments our policy on mobility. Is it an idea whose time has come - that British students catch up with their continental...
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Don's Diary
Taking it one day at a time in South Manhattan. Friday I got an email today that made me suspect it was Noughth Week in Oxford. Freshers there will have started feeling the effects of too much group...
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Eyewitness: Russia's fragmented forests
Logging, road building and the fires that often follow are threatening to destroy Russia's last remaining tracts of wilderness forest, new maps produced using satellite images show. Five years of...
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A bewildered tribe
As The THES turns 30, Simon Jenkins and Tariq Ali review three turbulent decades within and without academia. After Margaret Thatcher lost power in 1990, her most revealing reflection was over her...
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A challenge for the next 30 years...
The THES celebrates its pearl anniversary this week. Thirty years may be a scratch on the history of universities, but for British higher education they have been momentous. In October 1971 the...
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The revolution has stalled but hope springs eternal
As The THES turns 30, Simon Jenkins and Tariq Ali review three turbulent decades within and without academia. Thirty years ago an entire generation refused to accept the permanent insignificance of...