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Can I get a witness?
Money for old muck bags A row over a bag of manure led to a lucrative expert witness commission for the University of Leeds' colour chemistry analytical services division. After six years of research...
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Unrecorded legacies
Thomas Balogh was economic adviser to the cabinet in 1964-67. A Hungarian emigre, he became both confidant and eminence grise to Harold Wilson, who made him a life peer in 1968. In the 1970s, he...
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Talent pool that served both sides of the iron Curtain
Where does the secret service go to recruit spies? Cambridge, where the KGB used to hunt too. Kam Patel went there to meet an intelligence expert Christopher Andrew leads the way to Corpus Christi's...
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Cambridge's secret collections
"There are several collections here that are closed and not on any list: we cannot even declare that we have them," says Alan Kucia, senior archivist at Churchill College, Cambridge. Built in 1974 to...
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A testimony that you can bank on
Despite a clampdown on the use of expert witnesses in courts, academics with the right connections can still clean up. Phil Baty reports Academics, experts in their field, are often invited to give...
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Turning the page on a bookselling tradition
Online retailer Swotbooks.com plans to revolutionise the student textbook market. Anne Sebba reports Imagine being a law student, told you must buy a Pounds 40 textbook, but you will only need...
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Faculty votes to kill off institute
An institute at Baylor University in Texas that aimed to unite the study of science and religion has ended up dividing it. Faculty have demanded by a vote of 26 to two that the programme should be...
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Madrid
Two women will hold key posts in education and research in Spain's new government. Pilar del Castillo, former head of the Centre of Sociological Research, is minister of education and Anna Birules,...
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Johannesburg
Two-million-year-old fossilised remains of two ancient hominids identified as Paranthropus robustus have been discovered by scientists of the University of the Wi****ersrand, five miles north of the...
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Durban
Thirty-seven academics at the University of Durban-Westville, whose posts were abolished earlier this year, have been told that they will be redundant within days. They are being given six months'...
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EU gives UK overseas boost
The European Union provides just under half of all overseas students in United Kingdom universities. In the academic year 1998-99, 219,285 overseas students were registered, 11.9 per cent of all...
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Lord Dearing is chancellor of the University of Nottingham
Lord Dearing is chancellor of the University of Nottingham, not vice-chancellor as we said in a picture caption on April 28.
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Ile-Ife
Rogers Makanjuola, vice-chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife town, Nigeria, was shot when his car was caught up in protests over the relocation of local government headquarters....
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Beijing
Chinese authorities have released Chen Lantao, a former university researcher and marine biologist, who was serving an 18-year prison sentence for denouncing the military assault on Tiananmen...