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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work about underworld life written by a prime novelist: " 'Get away from here you dirty swine,'she...
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Queen tells Essex to reconvene tribunal
The Queen has ordered Essex University to reconvene a student appeal tribunal because "justice should be seen to be done". Acting on behalf of the Queen as the university's visitor, Lord Slynn of...
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Further education's role in the 'Blair project'
Further education colleges are on their way to meeting Tony Blair's goal of doubling their intake of overseas students by 2005, the British Council figures suggest. Overseas student numbers in the...
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UK 'responsive and alive'
Tony Blair (right) is backing a four-pronged plan to raise the UK's share of the overseas higher education market from 17 per cent to 25 per cent and to double the number of overseas students in...
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Don's diary
Saturday Finish exam marking and fly to Boston. Met by Bill Gardner, New Hampshire's secretary of state. It is snowing heavily. Stop for pizza at Mamma Luci's. The primary is three days away. Bill's...
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Saving a princely sum?
Rumours that Prince William is heading north to study the history of art are "well-founded on speculation", according to Edinburgh University's press office, which stresses that all applications are...
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Making an impact
Ron Thomson, a Glasgow University expert in mechanical engineering's ballistics and impact group, has been campaigning for improved campus road safety for years. Now the inevitable has happened - he...
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The right moment
Conservatives have cancelled a long-awaited announcement on higher education policy because it would have been "premature". How, one wonders, can an announcement scheduled weeks ago for next Tuesday...
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Lavly way to spend time
Student activists at Warwick University have been celebrating a high turnout to their three-and-a- half-hour annual general meeting. But the unexpected enthusiasm appeared due less to the topics...
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Lynne Brindley
Twenty-five years ago, studying for a diploma in library and information studies at University College London, Lynne Brindley won the Sir John MacAlister award for best student on the course. Now she...
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On the move
Bob Nelson, controller, BBC Training and Development, has taken over as chair of the board of directors at the national training organisation for broadcast, film, video and multimedia, Skillset. He...
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Glittering prizes
J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series of books, is to receive an honorary degree from the University of St Andrews. Sir Martin Rees, astronomer royal for the Royal Observatories of England...
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Austria's right dismays academics
As Austria faces economic sanctions after the inclusion of Jorg Haider's Freedom Party in the ruling coalition, academic contacts are already suffering in the international reaction. Canada and the...
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A case of quality control
British universities are delivering education overseas and must ensure a service of a high standard, says Michael Brown. Many British universities are successfully delivering quality programmes...