Walks with dinosaurs, pogos with elephants
John Hutchinson is one of the lucky few to fulfil his childhood dreams. The unassuming American expert in evolution and biomechanics always wanted to be a biologist, but he also flirted with the idea...
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New Zealand beats the entrepreneurial pace-setters
Fledgling commercialisation departments in New Zealand's universities are overtaking their North American counterparts in the number of spin-off companies and patents they produce. Figures compiled...
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Baghdad closes all campus doors
All Baghdad universities were shut this week on the orders of Abd Dhiab, the Iraqi Higher Education Minister, writes David Jobbins. His intervention came hours after men in military-style uniforms...
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US colleges hostile to data pooling
Universities reject proposal that they share information on student performance. David Jobbins reports Margaret Spellings, the US Education Secretary, faces opposition to her plan to encourage...
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Unifying presence
Unifying presence: Mohammed Shabir, the former president of the Islamic University in Gaza City and a US-educated microbiologist, is the leading candidate to become prime minister of an emerging...
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V-c raises his critical voice
The vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town, Njabulo Ndebele, is emerging as a rare critic of what he sees as South Africa's intellectually moribund, internally bickering and morally bankrupt...
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Commissioner backs institute
The European Union Research Commissioner, Janez Poto ycnic, has contested claims that the proposed European Institute of Technology will mean less money for research projects in other institutions,...
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Dress ban splits campus
Almost half of Turkish students oppose the ban on women wearing religious headscarves on campus, while a third back the prohibition, a poll has found. The findings come from a survey of the political...
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Shortage of skills not a myth, PM is told
Report says Howard is wrong to claim that ߣߣÊÓƵ needs no more home students. Geoff Maslen reports The ߣߣÊÓƵn Government has come under attack for asserting that too many school students are...
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Your starter for tenure on merits of quiz nerds
All the qualities of a top academic are found in a good University Challenge contestant, believes Paul Brownsey. It wasn't until after I got my academic job that I revealed a dark secret to my new...
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No verdict in case with unanswered questions
The innocence project . BBC One, Thursdays, 8pm It is a good time for The Innocence Project . The new BBC drama series about miscarriages of justice has been launched in an increasingly punitive...
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Enveloped in desperation
The Times Higher has received a white envelope, postmarked Oxford and addressed in spidery handwriting. Inside was a brief anonymous note on the "mood of desperation" that "seems to be setting in...
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Down at Keele
In the midst of all the speculation about why Labour's Science Minister Lord Sainsbury resigned suddenly last week, spare a thought for the poor folk of Keele University. Officials there have been in...
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Northern exposure
Manchester University has become such a popular location for shooting scenes for TV productions that its events directors are beginning to describe it as "the Hollywood of the North". It seems the...
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Curiouser and curiouser
It's a relief to see the US is still worse than the UK when it comes to curbing students' curiosity. A ten-year-old who was disciplined for looking at websites about 9/11 could now be forced to have...