US boss flies home
Nancy Bord resigned this week as head of Liverpool Business School and plans to return to the United States "to pursue other interests", less than a year after her appointment as the United Kingdom's...
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Report calls for green funding
Being a deep shade of green should be a condition of winning university funding, says a report which has been welcomed by John Gummer, environment secretary, and Gillian Shephard, education and...
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Dances with greens
Environmentalists have been ranting about universities' failure to green themselves, but one exception is the greenery that has sprouted like an algal bloom over course titles. There are 1,206...
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Marriages made in heaven?
The new Association of Colleges is launched this week and the Further Education Funding Council gets a new head next month. Harriet Swain assesses their chances of shaping the future of further...
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Born to be wild
(Photograph) - Born to be wild: Jennifer Ward, a third-year zoology student at Glasgow University, studies a 100-year-old wildcat in the university's zoology museum before embarking on a year-long...
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No more 'good' or 'bad' Muslims
Jennie Bristow unpicks the attitude of the National Union of Students to 'extremist' Muslim fundamentalists. On Monday July 22, the Runnymede Trust, the independent thinktank on race relations,...
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Road to lonely learning
Cyberspace hoopla reminds us of how often technology affects the locus of learning. Writing itself, moveable type, high-speed printing, the telephone, recording devices, photocopying machines, radio...
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Sacked research boss sues UNL
A professor is suing the University of North London for alleged breach of contract after claiming he was sacked because of disagreements over research management. David Taplin, who is due to be...
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Foecke fights on
A former student lost his libel case against Bristol University this week when he could not produce a Pounds 25,000 security against future legal costs. Francis Foecke, 38, has battled against...
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Wrong dates
"It's history - but not as we know it," was the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England's verdict on a shock story from the magazine History Today, to be published next month: "This year's...
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Footprints in sands of time
If history is a mostly false account of events mostly unimportant, then the history of life, as told by the fossil record, is an account mostly fragmentary of body parts mostly insignificant. Living...
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City by the Tom opens up to 'white crows'
Foreign visitors to Tomsk still excite surprise and comment in this remote university city of 500,000 people, which sits above the high pine-covered bluffs of the River Tom. When the Trans-Siberian...
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Real force needed to smash ceiling
The extent of discrimination against women that still exists in higher education in the UK is underlined by the accounts of two new women professors' fight for recognition (THES, July 26). As you...
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Old punk seeks life on the street
Malcolm McLaren, the father of punk, may be seen more often in lecture halls than the King's Road these days, but his inspiration is still drawn from the streets. He talks to Kam Patel. Malcolm...
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Culture collections clubbed together
The Government has placed responsibility for the United Kingdom's numerous collections of cultures and micro-organisms in the hands of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The...