Don's diary
Friday Only a masochist would choose to spend the night at the unlovely Hounslow civic centre. I had planned, after the polls closed, to thank my helpers, go home and watch the expected Tory victory...
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Industrial break
Even union leaders need a break from industrial strife, it seems. As revealed by education secretary David Blunkett at the Association of University Teachers' Summer Council, AUT general secretary...
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Showing the way
There is a simple solution to the difficulties faced by the blind and partially sighted at Nottingham University's new Jubilee Campus (page 3). Before it opened, education secretary David Blunkett...
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New goal for business
Regular diary readers cannot have missed the fact that universities have been going football crazy in an attempt to woo students. It was, therefore, only a matter of time before rugby got in on the...
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Radical departure
Students at Kent University displayed their radicalism last week, first by demonstrating outside the registry, then by occupying a senate building in a protest against changes to the exam timetable....
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In the news
Adult Learners Week, which begins next week for the ninth time, will be largely the creation of one man. Alan Tuckett, director of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education since 1988,...
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On the move
David Fletcher, registrar and secretary of the University of Sheffield, has been appointed secretary of the Committee of University Chairmen. He will succeed Michael Shattock in January. David Porter...
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Glittering prizes
New fellows elected to the Royal Society this year are: Michael Akam, University of Cambridge; James Binney, University of Oxford; Brice Bosnich, University of Chicago; Cyrus Chothia, MRC Laboratory...
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Take a bite of the Big Apple
New York is hot again. Harvey J. Kaye reports on the essential reading matter for visitors to the city Our younger daughter travelled with her high-school chorus to New York City for spring break....
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New Delhi
The Indian government has stumped its critics by appointing Deepak Nayyara, a leftwing economist, vice-chancellor of Delhi University. This reverses the pattern of the past two years of placing pro-...
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Moscow
The first Russian translation of Summerhill, which describes the philosophy and practice of free-school founder A. S. Neill, has been published in Moscow. Part of the series Classical Works of...
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Rome
The Italian bishops' conference has attacked the reform of Italy's state university system. In The Christian Community and the University, published by the conference's education commission, they say...
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Nairobi
Eight universities in East Africa have established a centre for human capacity-building to train high-level manpower for the universities. The centre, at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and...
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US women close the gap
Women students have caught up with or surpassed men in many areas of American higher education, according to an exhaustive government survey. The report by the US department of education shows that...
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University essential, parents believe
A university degree has taken on unprecedented importance for Americans, according to the most extensive public opinion survey ever conducted about views on higher education in the United States,...