Breaking the QAA code
The mission of the Quality Assurance Agency has always been clear: to promote public confidence in higher education. However, the agency has just realised that this means its reports need to be...
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People's peer Lord Loon
Aberdeenshire paper The Press and Journal is always keen to find the local angle, and allegedly reported the Titanic disaster under the headline "Northeast man drowns at sea". Its story on the people...
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Glittering prizes
The Institute of Biology , in London, has elected the following honorary fellows: Sir James Armour , formerly of the University of Glasgow; Derek Burke , former vice-chancellor of the University of...
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On the move
Hugh Begg , an independent consultant, has been appointed visiting professor in local economic development in the University of Abertay Dundee 's school of social and health sciences. The Kent...
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In the news: The laboratory mouse
The laboratory mouse has become the lifeblood of bioscience, staking its claim through a century of sacrifice. Even though the level of animal experimentation in the United Kingdom has halved in the...
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Don's Diary
Weekend one Arrive in Jinja, Uganda, with colleague Phil Johnson and 15 undergraduates for the first stage of a field class and development aid partnership with the National Teachers' College in...
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World view: the road to heaven or hell
Candidates for tenured professorships in France have 30 gruelling minutes to prove themselves worthy. Yochanan Altman watched the ordeal. The tall spectacled 31-year-old, pale and unshaven, sits...
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World watch
Caracas Academics and students at Venezuela's Central University were hurt as radical students fought with moderates seeking to end a month-long occupation over university reforms. Adis Ababa...
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Eyewitness: Kazakhstan's biological timebomb
Scientists at an agricultural research institute in Kazakhstan say that they have been sidelined by the ministries of agriculture and education since last summer when they revealed an outbreak of...
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Aborigine aid cut deters blacks
Federal government cuts in financial aid for Aboriginal students are believed to be responsible for a decline in the number of blacks enrolling in higher education. Figures released last month showed...
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Canada to opt out of trade area
Canada is insisting its public university system will remain exempt from a free trade area that emerged from last month's Summit of the Americas, despite promoting the services of its own private...
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Israeli reservists win concessions
Israeli students who are also reservists in the defence forces have been granted a number of academic and financial concessions, according to student leaders. A series of meetings between student and...
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'Medieval' minister wants Indian students to be taught vedic astrology
India's education minister plans to introduce vedic astrology, based on ancient Hindu texts, in universities and to impose Sanskrit on science students. Murali Manohar Joshi has been accused of...
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Global access plan mooted
The Association of Commonwealth Universities should act as a bridgehead to link academic institutions in the Commonwealth with European Union universities as well as other networks, its secretary-...
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Hard to get in, harder to find
Barely one in 20 applicants has been accepted for Olin College of Engineering in the autumn, making it one of the most difficult schools in America to enter. This is an impressive performance...