Glittering prizes
The Queen will award Royal medals to the following people selected by the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Sir James Black , Nobel laureate and professor at King's College Hospital Medical School,...
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In the news: Kenneth Clarke
The prospect of former chancellor Kenneth Clarke becoming leader of the Tory Party has inspired both brickbats and bouquets. As education secretary from November 1990 to April 1992, he planned the...
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Maureen gets her gong
For a fleeting moment, it looked as though Professor Lapping had finally joined forces with Dr Quintock, the ever-absent Dr Piercemuller and Mr Odgers to nominate his long-suffering secretary for an...
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A sizzling cover-up
Evidence from the United States suggests we should be even more suspicious of management textbooks. Publishers across the Pond are promoting a book called Married Lust . "Drawing on the results of a...
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Boxing up innovation
One student obviously caught the mood last week when Northern Ireland's higher education minister, Sean Farren, opened the province's Centre for Entrepreneurship, a joint venture by the University of...
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How to get it rolling in
At the recent Association of Scottish Colleges' annual conference, entrepreneur Chris Gorman, who has sold two multimillion-pound businesses, urged the colleges to slash costs by buying online. One...
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Eyewitness
Some violations of academic freedom are clear-cut: a senior academic in Colombia is the victim of extra-judicial execution for his politics; an Egyptian social scientist jailed for critical research...
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Strains on a divided island
Changes now under way in Cypriot higher education could result in a binary system, argues Kate Hughes. The University of Cyprus is relatively small, and competition for places is fierce. Home supply...
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World watch
Baku Former Azerbaijani education minister Rafig Feyzullayev, jailed for 12 years in February for corruption and misappropriation of state funds, was found dead in his cell a day before his appeal...
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Right cools to left's reforms
The minister responsible for European Union policy in Italy's new conservative government has attacked the radical reforms of the university system initiated by its centre-left predecessors. The...
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Neo-Nazi influence alarms minister
Rightwing extremists are trying to gain influence in German universities by infiltrating traditional student fraternities, Bavarian interior minister Guenther Beckstein has warned. He said...
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Czechs weigh up loans option
University tuition fees and student loans could be introduced in the Czech Republic by next year if controversial plans to overhaul higher education funding get the go-ahead. Sociologist Petr Matejuk...
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Vietnam eyes up overseas potential
Education chiefs in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, plan to almost double the number of postgraduates working in the city by 2005. The city's department of science, technology and environment this month...
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Republicans get their claws into curriculum
Core curriculums in the United States are being pushed by conservative advocacy groups that have won places on the once-docile boards that govern universities. At a meeting in Albany, New York,...
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High-tech Namibia thrives under Ford's care
The Ford Foundation is increasing its financial support for a distance-learning project designed to help a remote part of northern Namibia that is trying to recover from the ravages of the former...