Don's Diary
Weekend Combination of catching up on piles of reading marked "not urgent", domestic matters put off for weeks; and preparation for a visit to Kyrgyzstan. It is here, in Central Asia (formerly part...
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Fender a mite fidgety
Funding council chiefs Sir Brian Fender and Bahram Bekhradnia might be forgiven for looking a little uncomfortable when they appeared before the Commons select committee on education last week....
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A bitter taste
Campaigning against GM-food toting multinational food companies such as Monsanto and Novartis can be thirsty work. So Friends of the Earth activists were happy to celebrate the end of Real Food Week...
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Cheap limbs for sale?
Today and tomorrow you can help the finances of one of Britain's less prosperous universities while adding to your cultural life. The London College of Music and Media in west London is selling a...
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Faludy now a scribbler
Whatever happened to Alexander Faludy, last heard of in 1998 as he started his first day at the University of Cambridge, aged 15. The Peterhouse undergraduate, studying art history and theology, who...
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One relaxed v-c
The pressure of the past few weeks has not robbed Colin Lucas, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, of his humour. At the opening of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Lucas...
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Francis Collins
It took months of deliberation - and one refusal - before Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, agreed to take on such a key role in producing the "first draft of...
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On the move
Eric Thomas, dean of the faculty of medicine, health and biological sciences and recently appointed deputy vice-chancellor (designate) at the University of Southampton, has been recommended to...
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Glittering prizes
Joanna Bourke, professor of history at Birkbeck College, is joint winner of this year's Wolfson Prize for historical writing for her book An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in 20th...
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From Nasa to knickers
Space technology is being used to solve the problem of incontinence. Geoff Watts reports. A medical system that can transplant a failing heart or rejoin a severed limb still cannot offer a wholly...
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Cutting edge
University museums once took the lead in conserving our heritage. With a little modest investment, they can do so again. According to Phillips' New World of Words (1706), a museum was "a study or...
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The hard drive for humankind
John Sulston is about to reveal the secrets of self to the world. Martin Ince meets the modest man leading the Human Genome Project. John Sulston, director of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, has been...
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A novel look at inventionin inventory
Is the decoding of genetic material something that should be patented? Margaret Llewelyn examines intellectual rights and the human genome. The completion of the draft of the human genome has focused...
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Barcelona
A judge has suspended language regulations at Barcelona's Pompeu Fabre University for "imposing the preferential use of Catalan" over Spanish. The case was brought by a rightwing pressure group...
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Strasbourg
A two-year, (500,000 ($311,000) project aimed at regenerating Kosovo's higher education system has been agreed between Gabriele Mazza, director responsible for education at the Council of Europe, and...