Face-off
Tensions were high at the National Union of Students' annual conference in Blackpool this week. The chair received a complaint that the national executive was "intimidating" speakers by "pulling...
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Become king of the jungle
The Diary was excited by the prospect of an "attractive six-figure salary" on reading last week's advert for a director-general of higher education based in the Department for Education and Skills....
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Good news is the only news
An oversight of stupendous proportions this week from the University of Bristol. Its April newsletter notes: "The university is constantly in the media locally, nationally and internationally. Here...
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Who are the berks now?
Congratulations to the students of Birkbeck College, London, who beat postgraduates from Cranfield University to take the University Challenge 2003 title this week. The team of adult part-time...
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Frosty the student
A snowman is due to enrol as a student at the Berlin Polytechnic College. The sculpture, Yesterday's Snow , was created by artist Joerg Jozwiak. The classic three-ball snowman sports a red hat and...
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Don's diary: Military manoeuvres with US marines
Tuesday Amajuba: Zulu for "the mount of doves". An hour of making steady progress uphill, but the steepest section looms ahead. Below is the road to Laing's Nek, marking the positions from which the...
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Why I think universities should prepare for the greater rights of disabled students
Recent legislation has targeted universities in an attempt to tackle possible discrimination against disabled people. Since last September, after the Disability Discrimination Act was significantly...
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Liberate the labs
The UKresearch establishment hobbles its scientists. We must set them free, says Stuart Lyons Britain's science is in a poor state. This is not because our scientists lack talent - they are among the...
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Colleges need a guiding hand
Peer evaluation can raise quality in colleges and build trust in foundation degrees, David Robertson says The expansion of higher education is to be achieved largely in colleges, with incentives...
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How bricks can build confidence
Gwen van der Velden describes how an unusual summer school is helping students who are failing. Mention exams and most students get the jitters. After all, that's when they have to prove their...
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Industry hits out at diluted degree trend
Employers have become so concerned that the widening participation agenda has "watered-down" degrees that one major company is considering recruiting talented school-leavers rather than graduates....
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Accept more money while our staff are underpaid? Never, said v-cs
Vice-chancellors had asked for cuts in their pay rises because they feared angering their underpaid staff, The THES can reveal. In private interviews with economics researchers, several vice-...
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In the news: John McKenzie
The former rector of the London Institute, economist John McKenzie, is the new chairman of Leeds United, the Premier League football club with an £80 million deficit. As well as tackling financial...
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Appointments
David Rhind , vice-chancellor and principal of City University, has been appointed chairman of the Statistics Commission. He has been a member of the commission since its inception in 2000 and will...
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DFES rethinks regulator role
A hasty rethink of the access regulator's role is under way after the government's initial proposals were criticised by senior figures in higher education, including vice-chancellors, college heads...