Don's Diary
Thursday, week one High up Mount Musallah in Bulgaria, home of Orpheus and scene of his dismemberment by angry Thracian women - far, far from the port-encrusted cloisters with their relentless...
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Glittering prizes
The following have been elected to the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences: Ash Amin , University of Durham; Sara Arber , University of Surrey; Sue Atkins , Cabinet Office; George...
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In the news: Kevin Warwick
Not all his fellow scientists were happy when Kevin Warwick was chosen to give the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, which started this week. Some responded by calling Reading University's...
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Fat lady sings
Knives were sharpened for the recent final of the University Chefs' Challenge 2000 in London, in which 16 residential and catering services teams competed to cook a meal within a set time, in front...
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Bounced out for good
Getting thrown out of Liverpool University for taking part in a 1970s student protest was the best thing that ever happened to him, Channel 4 frontman Jon Snow told the university's student newspaper...
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www.getrichnow.com
Students in need of the odd penny for tuition fees should forget Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? and get into the dotcom spirit. A competition, launchit2001.com, has identified universities as a...
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Clinton teases out visit
President Clinton has turned out to be a bit of a tease as far as British universities go. After weeks of hinting at a closer relationship with Oxford - with rumours that he will return to his alma...
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Adriatic institute will take Balkan bull bythe horns
Academics from Ankara, Belgrade, Bucharest, Padua, Sarajevo, Sofia and Trieste met this week in this lovely Renaissance town, just a few miles along the Adriatic from Slovenia and Croatia, to lay the...
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Judge supports lecher
The Spanish sport of street piropo was in the dock last week on a charge of sexual harassment. A waiter successfully fought his dismissal for telling his female colleague that she had "a cute bum",...
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Protest at office closures
More than 100 German and British academics have launched a bi-national petition protesting against the British Council's plans to close four regional offices in Germany - Hamburg, Munich, Leipzig and...
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Roads to Europe open up for Serbia
Serbian universities took the first steps towards reintegration into Europe last week. Thirty-seven academics from the countries' universities met in Belgrade with the administrators of European...
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EU and Russia woo Belarus
The ironies of East European politics were played out last week when European Union representatives met in one part of Minsk to talk about greater unity with Belarus while in another part of the city...
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Bear essentials for Arctic study
The professor from Florida was puzzled. As postgraduate students arrived at the university refectory for lunch, they hung their rifles next to their coats. "You allow your students to carry rifles...
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Colleges give a 'C' to A to F state guide
American universities whose business it is to rate their students on performance found the tables turned when a private, non-profit research organisation evaluated them for the first time. The state-...
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Eyewitness: Ottoman history revisited
The fall of Constantinople to the marauding Turks was one of the darkest days in Christendom, heralding centuries of oppression and bloody rule by Islamic forces. That is, at least, how many...