Don's Diary
May I ensconce myself in a room roughly ten-foot square, switch on the kit and wait. The comp-uter screen bursts in to life: "Incoming call." Welcome to the age of the video conference; which enables...
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Glittering prizes
King's College London has awarded fellowships to: Josephine Crocker , chairman of the King's Association; Judith Dunn , research professor at the Institute of Psychiatry; Thomas Lehner , professor of...
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On the move
The e-university holding company has appointed: Sir Brian Fender , chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, chair; Alfred Morris , vice-chancellor of the University of the...
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Paying for the name
Nice to know the government is fulfilling its pledge to spend extra money on education. More than £56,000 - about 12 times the level of funding per student - has gone on renaming the Education and...
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Follow whose leader?
Whoever wins the Tory leadership contest will know he was not the first choice of his education team. Shadow education secretary Theresa May backed Michael Portillo from the start, while higher...
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Old scrubbers only
As St Andrews University awaits the arrival of new student Prince William, closely followed by a tabloid stake-out of any potential girlfriend, it must yearn for the constraints of the past. Patrick...
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Dancing to Ewan's tune
Film star Ewan McGregor got more than an honorary DLitt when he turned up at Ulster University last week. He is seeking banjo lessons for a film role and UU's Institute of Ulster-Scots has offered to...
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Laura takes leap back
The row over Oxford University's refusal to offer a place to state-school pupil Laura Spence generated reams of unfavourable publicity. But it seems they were right. "I don't feel that being from the...
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Eyewitness: First steps in Caucasus peace process
The long-standing enmity between Armenians and Turks could be resolved by a "reconciliation commission", which met for its first session last week. Commission members from Armenia, Turkey, Russia and...
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Beards are back, but no Che
On Moroccan campuses, revolutionary ideals have been supplanted by Islamic fundamentalism, says Hassan Bouzidi. In the heyday of the Union Nationale des Etudiants du Maroc, the beard was worn as a...
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World watch
Paris High salaries and job security are no longer what future managers demand most from their careers, a survey of European management students reveals. Carried out among almost 1,500 students at 11...
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Latest UK news
Scots students step up anti-fees campaign NUS Scotland is stepping up its campaign to ensure that fees are scrapped and grants returned for UK students in Scotland and Scottish students in...
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Latest international news
Funds halted after Johns Hopkins death Federally financed medical studies on human subjects at the Johns Hopkins University have been halted by the United States Department of Health and Human...
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The Nobel and the not nearly so Nobel
As 250 living Nobel laureates prepare to celebrate the centenary of the prize, Joseph Rotblat looks at key omissions in its controversial history. This year, the first of the third millennium, is the...
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The power of a sport to charm a prostitute's son and make playing nations blind to colour
The Picador Book of Cricket - Cricket and Race