In the news: David Normington
"The smiling assassin" is the nickname bestowed on David Normington, who was appointed permanent secretary at the Department for Education and Employment last week. The 49-year-old has spent more...
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Polygamy costs
English Heritage has placed a blue plaque on the former London home of crystallographer John Desmond Bernal. Bernal was a Marxist and one of the first to write about science in a political context....
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A day on the beer
The University of Bradford last week hosted a one-day course on "the pub and its people". Punters looked at the different forms of pubs, pub architecture, design, customers and publicans. We can only...
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D is for disappeared
The government recently published its response to the Library and Information Commission's Empowering the Learning Community report. It sets out its action plan for responding to the commission's...
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Pleasure at QAA's pain
University administrators meeting in Exeter this week were treated to a description of the Quality Assurance Agency by David Allen, registrar and secretary of the University of Birmingham: "It audits...
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Don's Diary: Lent quintet
Lent 1997 At the main gate of Lincoln College, Oxford, discuss focus of the next "Turl Street Arts Festival", an annual venture run by the undergraduates of Lincoln, Jesus, and Exeter colleges every...
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Don't co-opt, just cooperate
Universities are happy to work with the government, but they do not want to be directed solely by market or political dictates, Bryan Gould writes Too many lawyers and accountants? Not enough...
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Eyewitness: Islam finds way to safe investment
The Islamic world is on the brink of launching a money market. The two main centres for the proposed market are the island Gulf state of Bahrain and Labuan, Malaysia's off-shore financial centre in...
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World watch
Washington DC President George W. Bush's 2002 US budget proposal raises total spending on federally backed basic research by 6 per cent, but funds for global change research will fall by 4 per cent....
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Students besiege leader's HQ
Students besieged the Ukrainian president's office this week and tried to make him swear on the Bible and constitution that he was not responsible for the murders of journalist Heorhiy Honhadze and...
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Thailand follows Oz route to liberty
Thailand plans to give its 25 public universities more autonomy by adopting the same system of institutional governance as ߣߣÊÓƵ, writes Geoff Maslen. Universities in Thailand operate under the...
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President plants ally to reform authority
The battle between Turkey's president and the leadership of the country's higher education authority, Yok, has intensified following President Ahmet Necdet Sezer's decision to appoint Burhan...
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Dons 'pressed' to dumb down
The University of New South Wales last week announced an inquiry into "soft marking" for students paying full fees. The move, the first of its kind in ߣߣÊÓƵ, follows claims that academics have...
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Walk tall
Research assistant James Oldham adjusts the marker devices on a patient at the University of Plymouth's Movement Gait Analysis Laboratory. The university has spent more than £140,000 on cameras,...
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Higher education appointments
University of Durham Colette Eggleton , formerly responsible for marketing Learning North East at the University of Sunderland, has been appointed marketing and development manager to the university'...