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(Photograph) - Fresh ideas: Sarah Hocombe, a fresco painter, has won a Pounds 5,200 Queen Elizabeth scholarship to study contemporary fresco practice in Italy.
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Cricklade whistleblower sacked
Whistleblower Andrew Murray has been sacked by Cricklade College, Andover. Mr Murray, a senior Natfhe negotiator, helped disclose alleged financial irregularities at the college, which led to the...
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Staff pilloried by head
Lecturers' leaders have lambasted the principal of Manchester College of Art and Technology, Peter Tavernor, for a public attack on his own staff, some of whom he has described as "dishonest and...
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World watch
A feminist scholar who refused to admit men into her classes because they "have nothing to offer" has lost her legal battle. A court said that Boston College was right to order Mary Daly, 70, to...
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Workhorses of the system
Postgraduates are overworked and underpaid. Few finish their PhD in the three years allotted. Alison Goddard asks why There is no doubt that the workload of PhD students has increased considerably in...
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Chemist with a interest in pests
Jenny Kingston is a final-year PhD student at Portsmouth University. Specialising in environmental analytical chemistry, she is working on a European Union funded study into sampling pesticides. "I...
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Black South African's optimistic for post-election future
Nelson Mandela. Regarded education as a key element in South Africa's transition from the social divisions and racial resentment of apartheid to black majority rule. Later he was criticised in some...
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World watch
Exiled dissident Chinese scholars have been invited to Macao, the Portuguese enclave that reverts to Chinese rule in December, to attend a seminar marking the tenth anniver- sary of pro-democracy...
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Eye witness
This week's elections in South Africa offered the first chance for the electorate to deliver a verdict on the first majority government's handling of the transition from apartheid. Barring a major...
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Porn brings down a Harvard dean
Pornography has embroiled two United States universities in controversy over academic freedom and personal privacy. In one case, the president of Wesleyan University was considering eliminating a...
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Professors accused of books fraud
Greece's academic community has been rocked by two cases of alleged fraudulent practices. One involves over-invoicing for books and manuscripts paid for by the state, the other, financial...
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ߣߣÊÓƵn v-cs sign French exchange deal
Committees representing ߣߣÊÓƵn and French vice-chancellors have signed a formal agreement on co-operation involving staff and student exchanges, research collaboration and mutual recognition of...
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Teachers of English see red in Pisa test
The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate is at the centre of a storm over a changeover by Italian universities from their own English language courses for students to standardised...
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Kosovar students pin hopes on return to classes
Many of the 714,000 or so refugees who have spilled out of Kosovo into neighbouring Albania, Montenegro and Macedonia are academics or students. No one knows how many, but in Macedonia the student...
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Academic links survive bombing
Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia has undermined confidence in western notions of democracy but not affected academic links between the former Soviet Union and Britain, according to participants at an...