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Occasionally accused of having feet of clay, the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals came close to finding those of its press officer, Ted Nield, encased in concrete as well last week. Dr...
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Skulking admiration
International misunderstandings No. 357: an eastern European academic, visiting Edinburgh for a higher education conference, congratulated his hosts on the attractiveness of the city's prostitutes....
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There was Nel, Nel . . .
Warm congratulations to the publishers of The Science Reporter, august organ of the Association of British Science Writers, for a classic display of the havoc that can be wrought by omitting a single...
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Web Des Res
It is refreshing to learn that not everyone thinks of the Internet as an ephemeral concept floating around in cyberspace. In a paper proposing a strategic alliance of HE institutions to provide...
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Daisy the drunk
Must-read headline of the month for October goes to the Warwick University NewsLetter and its front-page story "Warwick Scientists Devise Breathalyser For Cows". The bad news for those scenting the...
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Qualified support
National Council for Vocational Qualification chief executive John Hillier will be displeased to learn that the entire first print run - 1,500 copies - of Peter Robinson's Rhetoric and Reality:...
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Goodbye to all that
Rare the politician who enjoys being attacked rather than praised. But Labour higher education spokesman Bryan Davies considered it well worth the associated invective from a Scottish Nationalist...
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PEP talker
Alumnus to be proud of No:72 is yet another fine upstanding (as opposed to the other variety found face-down in Bournemouth sidestreets) Tory gent, Sir Geoffrey Johnson-Smith, until last week chair...
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Irish squeezed out with a tear
At least a third, and possibly half, of young people leaving Northern Ireland to study on the mainland do so reluctantly, claims Ulster University. Students are being forced to leave because of an...
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Managers stick heads in the sand
Higher education senior management teams may not be prepared for the significant changes and restructuring they predict, according to a survey of team members. "They see it's going to happen, but are...
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Beware of the eco crisis mongers
WESTERN predictions of environmental crises caused by the feckless management of natural resources in developing countries are often inaccurate and misleading, British and United States scientists...
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Jesuit priest plugs his mission
John Joseph Puthenkalam has an intimidatingly impressive academic record. It begins with bachelor's degrees in economics, philosophy, theology and education in his native India and from Japan; goes...
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Breakthrough in tissue transplant
Safer and easier transplant treatments for serious degenerative disorders of the nervous system, such as Parkinson's disease and Huntington's chorea, could result from work at Cardiff and Sheffield...
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Ethicists tread the moral maze
Public concern over euthanasia, foetal pain, assisted fertilisation and gene therapy has left western ethicists working overtime to draw the elusive line between "right" and "wrong". But there will...
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Sun and air treat water
SUNLIGHT and oxygen are all that is needed to make dirty water clean enough to drink, according to the latest microbiology research. The discovery, by Rob Reed, a senior microbiologist at the...