Israeli demands
The future of Derby University's lucrative franchise operation in Israel - and indeed its international academic reputation - hang in the balance. By the end of next month, an audit of Derby's...
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What's in a name?
After months of wrangling, the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has finally chosen itself a new and much funkier name. From now on it will be known as "Universities UK". One committee...
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Double booking
There was consternation at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside this week when it looked as if culture secretary Chris Smith would miss a planned tour of its "extensive media and IT suites"...
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...and double trouble
The real Sally Brown stood up to be counted this week at a conference on innovative teaching in Stirling. Professor Brown, assistant principal of Stirling University and chair of the 2001 education...
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Marine madness
Spare a thought for the parents of Imogen Hoyle, a second-year marine biology and coastal ecology student at Plymouth University, who will not be returning home to work in her local burger joint over...
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Glittering prizes
Stephen Palmer, honorary professor of psychology at City University, has been awarded the annual counselling psychology award from the British Psychological Society, Division of Counselling...
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On the move
Leslie Hannah, dean of City University's business school has been appointed chief executive of Aldridge Management College. The members of the new Statistics Commission are: Colette Bowe, head of...
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In the news
It would take more than a wobbling bridge to knock Sir Anthony Caro from the position he holds as Britain's foremost living sculptor. A former assistant to Henry Moore and widely regarded as his...
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Don's Diary
September. Visit the set of Dog Days, a film based on one of my short stories from Flying Leap. It is a sort of absurdist fable set in post-apocalyptic suburbia. It is bizarre to find my words...
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Bologna
The International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid after the rector of Bologna University, Fabio Roversi Monaco. The IAU is the recognised authority for assigning names to celestial bodies....
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Kisangani
The University of Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has turned into a refugee camp following confrontations between Ugandan and Rwandan troops fighting for control of the mineral-rich...
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Dakar
After differences between the governments of Mauritania and Senegal over the construction of a dam on a river running through the two countries, Senegalese students studying at the University of...
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Eye witness
Despite acclaimed success in East Timor, the ߣߣÊÓƵn government realises it cannot act as regional policeman. Political chaos engulfing Fiji and the Solomon Islands, the independence push in the...
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Diplomat war hero honoured
A Japanese cultural and study centre has opened in Lithuania, in honour of Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986), a Japanese diplomat who, during the second world war, saved more than 10,000 Lithuanian, Polish...
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Get smart
The government has launched a project to deliver next-generation smart cards for young people who stay on in education after the age of 16. Malcolm Wicks, the lifelong learning minister, is...