Dalyell wins Edinburgh
The veteran politician Tam Dalyell has been elected rector of the University of Edinburgh. He comfortably beat four other contenders, including comic novelist Jenny Colgan, in an election that had a...
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Unions face university challenge
Officials from the unions representing staff in higher education are filming University Challenge: The Professionals , due to air on BBC Two late May or early June. The team has already faced the...
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Stars in their eyes
Further evidence of the rift between ministers and mandarins emerged last week as the English higher education budgets were set for the coming year. While the white paper refers to the very best...
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It would be hypocritical not to
St Edmund Hall, Oxford, was last week reported to have banned alcohol from undergraduate social events. A clarification by the dean on the college's website states that he had lifted the ban in...
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Please take the chair - next door
Ben Pimlott appears to have learnt little from the sustained attacks he has suffered at the hands of his staff and governors as warden of Goldsmiths College, University of London. A new tier of...
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Why I believe gene banks are a waste of money
Recently a ransom demand was made calling for £163 million. At stake, we were told, was our future food security. We were threatened that if we didn't pay, our children would starve. That demand was...
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Reduced to tiers
Stop tinkering with entry requirements for state pupils and improve their education, says Ben Martin The government is understandably concerned that the proportion of state school students entering...
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The battle for arts and minds
Michael Bichard puts the case for a university dedicated to serving the creative industries Sometime last century, C. P. Snow wrote an essay about how the breakdown of communication between the...
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What brand is your degree?
The Virtual University? Knowledge, Markets and Management
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a great survey of uncertain central purpose: "Dover in the time of King Edward rendered £18, of which...
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The colours of conspiracy
An Act of State
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When distance really is no object
Entanglement
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Balance dead-ends and dream cures
Patterns of Speculation
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No need for leopard skin, just an Indian rope trick
1089 and All That
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Frightful forecasts from the final frontier
Storms in Space