Chiefly a student
Southampton geography student Daniel Brown went to the Volta region of Ghana to help an African village to build a library. Now he is about to become the village chief for a night. He is also booked...
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Sticky tribute
Kent Institute of Art and Design has presented a sculpture to Jemima Dury, daughter of the late frontman of Ian Dury and the Blockheads, as a gesture of thanks for agreeing to have one of its new...
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Glittering prizes
Umberto Eco , professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, has received an honorary doctorate from the Open University at a ceremony in Brussels. Wynne Harlen , retired director of the...
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On the move
Drummond Bone , principal of Royal Holloway, University of London, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool . He will succeed Philip Love next September. Derec Llwyd Morgan...
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Eyewitness: IMF bails out Argentina
Argentina's government this month obtained International Monetary Fund approval for $8 billion (£5.5 billion) in emergency funding to help service a mounting debt of $130 billion. It marks Argentina'...
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Six billion unheard voices
Whatever its failings, the racism conference in Durban should at least teach us to listen. Anybody who followed the proceedings of the Durban World Conference on racism was given serious cause to...
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Agony aunt
Q What are the advantages of throwing students in at the deep end with a problem to help them learn? A We are thrown in at the deep end of life and work with problems to solve. In higher education we...
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Rejected lecturer is suing Toronto
The British researcher whose firm job offer was rescinded after he alleged in a lecture there was a link between Prozac and suicide has issued a lawsuit against the University of Toronto and one of...
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Australia minus maths equals big problem
Australia will have no mathematicians working in its universities by 2012 if trends continue, a report by the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering suggests. The country is experiencing a...
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Row over flutter of doubt
The row over the environmental impact of genetically modified crops has flared up among North American scientists as new research suggests commercially grown transgenic maize poses no threat to the...
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Boards choose wrong leaders
Presidents at universities in the United States are lasting for shorter and shorter terms because of stress and other problems, largely because boards of trustees are doing a poor job of finding the...
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Funding improves staff:student ratio
Substantial rises in the number of posts for teachers, researchers and support staff are promised in France's higher education and research budgets for next year. Both sectors have almost identical...
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Bison activists hunted by rival
Reprisals have begun against student activists after the re-election of the authoritarian Alexander Lukashenko as president of Belarus. The Zubr (Bison) movement campaigned for his rival the "united...
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Protesters welcome economics reforms
Economics students who protested that the way their subject was taught was too theoretical and mathematical have welcomed proposals for its reform. Recommendations for change in course content and at...
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UN deal on Serb return to Kosovo
All faculties in the displaced Serbian University of Pristina are to return to Kosovo under a provisional deal between the United Nations and the new government in Belgrade. Most will be based in the...