Hall in a day's work
The Open University has been unable to confirm reports that Jerry Hall, model and former star of the West End production of The Graduate , has signed on an "introduction to humanities" course. A...
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Dressed to thrill
While most heads remain firmly in books at the British Library, occasionally they may swivel towards their neighbours. And it seems there has been a fair bit of swivelling this summer. The library's...
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Firefighting pays off
Dramatic newspaper reports implying that City University had been destroyed by the fire earlier this year worried the institution so much that it ran a big newspaper advertising campaign, paid for by...
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Perfect Bath toy
Glynis Breakwell, who takes over as vice-chancellor of the University of Bath next week, either has eclectic taste or immaculate standards. The bare bookshelves in her new office last week displayed...
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Don's Diary
Monday A culturally diverse week if ever there was one. In the office to finalise details for a trip to Shanghai to work on the business school's joint executive MBA project with the Bank of China....
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Glittering prizes
Cambridge University has awarded annual Pilkington teaching prizes to: Colin Burrow , English; Donald Laming , experimental psychology; Dominic Scott , philosophy; Lisa Hall , Institute of...
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On the move
Mike Pilling , head of physical chemistry at Leeds University, is to chair the government's Air Quality Expert Group . At Cambridge University : Sir John Kingman , retiring vice-chancellor of the...
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Eyewitness
Fiji's first elections since the 2000 coup will take place over a week starting tomorrow. In a remarkable twist in the post-coup drama, rebel leader George Speight has been given permission to stand...
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World watch
Canberra Australia's industry and science minister has approved funds to set up a centre for advanced cell engineering at Monash University in Melbourne even though state and federal governments are...
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Finding humanity in unity
Abdou Filali-Ansary says it is time to repair the uneasy relationship between two traditions of Islamic scholarship Islamic scholarship has developed along two distinct lines, each giving birth to a...
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Danes contain a problem
First-year students from the Copenhagen area may be offered temporary accommodation in containers. A proposal from the opposition Centre Democrats to use container homes used by construction workers...
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Foreign schools cash in on South African MBAs
International colleges are exploiting South Africa's lucrative MBA market, according to a leading financial magazine, which has reported a spectacular growth in enrolments on business studies courses...
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Italians to solve the curse of visitors
A team of Italian archaeologists, architects and technicians is working on the ancient Egyptian tombs of Sakkara to find ways of preventing the presence of visitors from damaging the tombs'...
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Malays at private colleges roll up for state loans
Government loans to students at Malaysia's 200-plus private colleges have more than doubled over the past year. Last year, 16,103 students from private higher education institutions received loans,...
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Jailed student seeks support
Campaigners are fighting for the release of Iranian student Ahmad Batebi who was jailed for 15 years after his photograph appeared on the front of The Economist. Despite the National Union of...