Questions of censorship
In February, Quality Assurance Agency auditors accused the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside of complying with a ban imposed by a partner college on materials referring to Jewish books. They...
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Tim Boswell
'Pro-Europe, anti-capital punishment, he voted for a second reading of David Alton's bill against abortion in 1988 and, more recently, in favour of lowering the homosexual age of consent' If Tim...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. Escape Liberal Democrat conference and miss first speech by Charles Kennedy as leader (have it recorded on video). Instead travel along the north-west main line from Manchester to Glasgow....
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Takes one to know one
The chairman of Conservative Future, Gavin Megaw, has hit out at Labour Student careerists for ruining the National Union of Students by failing to mount effective campaigns against tuition fees....
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On the move
Timothy Emlyn Jones, assistant principal (academic affairs) at Wimbledon School of Art, has been appointed deputy director of Glasgow School of Art. He succeeds James Cosgrove, who will retire later...
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Glittering prizes
Chris Patten, former governor of Hong Kong and now European Commissioner for external relations, will receive an honorary degree of doctor of civil law when he is installed as chancellor of the...
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Moscow
Dimitry Likhachev, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and literary scholar, has died in St Petersburg, aged 92. Likhachev spent four years in Stalin's labour camps after being arrested in...
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The indomitable inner spirit
The essential meaning of a university still lives through entrepreneurialism, writes Sheldon Rothblatt. We need to discover a new law of gravity and inertia. Let me explain. Set ways and convention...
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Karachi killing continue
The deaths of nine worshippers at a Karachi mosque were barely reported in British newspapers. But they were another landmark in four years of sectarian and religious strife, which has cost an...
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Chips with hot sauce
Reza Sotudeh reports on the struggle to design smaller, faster and more efficient processors for next-generation digital devices At the heart of almost all modern entertainment systems there are a...
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Free to Rome
The 160,000 students and more than 10,000 staff of Rome's La Sapienza University will be offered free internet access for the new academic year. The university's deal with Telecom Italia also...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES..Martin Ball argued that universities that ban smoking betray individuals' right to free expression Michael Carrington Wilby Northants So Martin Ball imagines a world where one...
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Lecturers warned off private tutor firms
Luciano Modica, rector of Pisa University and president of the Italian Rectors Conference, has told Pisa academics to steer clear of private tutoring firms that get students through exams. His...
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Germans put on their glad rags
Universities in former communist East Germany are rediscovering traditional academic ceremonies and its professors are donning university gowns as a way of asserting a new identity in reunified...
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Lucca's tribute to its famous son
The Teatro di Giglio is a typical 19th-century civic opera house in Lucca, Tuscany, where the local Giacomo Puccini came to watch operas by Verdi, Donizetti and the man who founded the city's...