No jobs for the tongue-tied
The Nuffield inquiry has suggested that a foreign language should be a prerequisite for university study. Frank Burdett disagrees. Two days ago the Nuffield languages inquiry, chaired by Sir Trevor...
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Milosevic's son in shooting incident
Serbian authorities have blamed the pro-democracy student movement Odpor (Resistance) for allegedly shooting at a supporter of the regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Odpor's spokesmen, however, deny the...
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Why I ...welcome this week's report into clinical research in North Staffordshire
At last the United Kingdom has the prospect of a research ethics committee system that works. That is the main message I take from the report of the inquiry led by Rod Griffiths, director of public...
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Goodbye to Beowulf
Valentine Cunningham breathes a sigh of relief as Oxford finally scraps its compulsory Anglo-Saxon English course. Surely the walls of Jericho have fallen. Most sensationally, the Oxford University...
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Premier division unis
Universities clearly believe that football can reach the students a mere prospectus cannot touch. Last week, the diary reported Newcastle University's wheeze to attract Indonesian students by sending...
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Brummy royal flush
Is the University of Birmingham becoming a royalist enclave? Last month, it was the Princess Royal who paid a visit to the Midlands, to open the university's new sports pitches. Last week, 25 years...
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An offer you can't refuse
Recent focus group research that called the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals "remote" and "pompous" seems not only to have bred an inferiority complex but a determination to bring in the...
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Old rebels need a cause
Student rebels of the 1970s are hard to put down. One writes to the Warwick University student newspaper congratulating those who occupied Warwick's senate last term. Describing himself as a veteran...
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GLA's education voice
Whoever the political winners and losers of the Greater London Assembly elections may be, one winning profession is academia. Five of the 25 members of the London Assembly have university links,...
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On the move
Geoff Whitty, dean of research at London University's Institute of Education for the past two years, is to become the institute's director, beating more than 30 candidates from six countries. He will...
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Palestine to bridge its virtual divides
A plan to establish a Palestinian national distance learning centre has been initiated by the World Bank. The centre will be used for virtual discussions between politicians from different countries...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Durham will award honorary degrees this year to: Alan Cowey, Medical Research Council research professor at the University of Oxford (DSc); Stuart Hall, former professor of...
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Finish on time - win Pounds 500
The humanities faculty of the University of Bologna, which includes Umberto Eco's ground-breaking degree in communication sciences, is offering a cash reward of E854 (Pounds 500) to students who...
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Vatican brought to account by artist
(Photograph) - A British artist has used an exhibition to highlight an environmental danger linked to the Vatican in Rome. Rose Frain, 1999-2000 Scottish Arts Council Scholar at the British School in...
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Jobs tempt students to drop out
Up to 70,000 students drop out of German universities each year without a diploma, and the numbers have doubled over the past 20 years, according to a study by the Hanover-based Higher Education...