Analysis: Odd jobs are ever more common
To cover the cost of a degree, more young people are taking paid work. Student stocktakers, sperm donors and models tell Cherry Canovan of the highs and lows of work and study. Students are...
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Whistleblowers
Bath ad sparks race row Bath University could be in trouble with the Commission for Racial Equality for including discriminatory conditions in an advertisement for a job vacancy. The CRE confirmed...
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On the move
Diana Walford , director of the Public Health Laboratory Service, has been elected principal of Mansfield College , Oxford, after David Marquand, retires in October 2002. The composer and conductor...
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In the news: Laura D'Andrea Tyson
As dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, Laura D'Andrea Tyson was the first woman to head a major American business school. This week, she was named the first...
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Don's Diary
Wednesday A second day of tutorials with International Red Cross managers in Nairobi. We look at their assignments: cultural diversity within the Red Cross, humanitarian advocacy in the information...
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Glittering prizes
Kate Storey , a principal investigator who runs a research group in the Wellcome Trust Biocentre at the University of Dundee, has received a five-year senior non-clinical fellowship worth £900,000...
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Singing for his supper
Tuition fees should be doubled... if students were not doing part-time jobs they would only be watching television... higher education is a middle-class tax perk... Strange that there was no whisper...
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Eat your heart out Rita
Willy Russell's Rita would not have a hope. A BBC trailer for Open University programmes contrasts OU television of the 1970s, complete with wide-collared lecturer and pointing baton, with its new...
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Surfing for a place
The number of extra places available this year will make clearing a breeze for many students. However, a laid-back approach is unwise for anyone wanting to study for the University of Plymouth's BSc...
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Bottom of the business
The bottoms and elbows of future captains of industry are to be well looked after, thanks to Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover. He donated £125,000 to the Said Business School in Oxford, to be spent...
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The thrill of pioneer spirits
Dorothy Zinberg was exhilarated by the sense of academic possibilities in Turkey's new Sabanci University Fantasies are cheap; making them real is quite another story. Having spent my professional...
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Eyewitness: Holiday village threatens last colony of rare birds
Talks later this month between conservationists and Club Mediterranée may seal the fate of the last colony of one of the world's rarest birds. The holiday village company wants to develop an area...
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World watch
Asunción Paraguayan students this week demonstrated over poor government funding for education, health and social programmes, excessive military spending and political corruption. Wellington A...
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Fees shrink Austria's intake
Austria's education minister expects that the introduction of university fees will reduce the number of students by 70,000. Elisabeth Gehrer has implicitly accepted the premise of a study by the...
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Germany to fine 'slow - lane' study
German student organisations have called for the resignation of education minister Edelgard Bulmahn after she supported charging fees for students who take more than 13 semesters to complete their...