Don's Diary
Monday Start gentle. Coffee with a colleague who is on sabbatical, discussing a nagging question: can there really be an evolutionary psychology? These days, many of us psychologists are keen to sign...
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How Brits can bridge the Gulf
IT IS BOOM time in the Gulf and it is not because of oil. Higher education is growing rapidly. The rise in numbers of students in Dubai alone from the early 1970s to 1996 has been 766 per cent (40,...
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Smart colleges will act now to reform governing bodies
WE ALL remember the theory that inspired public sector reform. The notion was that if the spenders of public cash were governed by business people, selected for office rather than elected to it, the...
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Appointments
University of Reading The following have been appointed pro vice-chancellors from October 1: Michael Fulford, professor in the department of archaeology, dean of the faculty of letters and social...
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Promotions
Lancaster University The following senior lecturers have been promoted to readerships: Margaret Ives, German studies; Les Smith, psychology and epistemology of development; David Smith, Indian...
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Chairs
Wellcome Trust Valerie Smith, marine microbiologist and reader in the school of environmental and evolutionary biology at the University of St Andrews, has been awarded a Wellcome visiting...
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Europe ignores patent data at its peril
European companies throw away Pounds 20 billion a year by duplicating research and development that has already been patented, sometimes by the same firm. Trevor Lemon, assistant director of research...
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Peers girded for fees battle
PEERS may be prepared to fight the government all the way on Scottish university tuition fees, possibly delaying the implementation of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill. In what would be a rare...
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German houses split over reform
Germany's ruling coalition has forced higher education reforms through the federal parliament in the face of Social Democrats' opposition in the upper house. The SPD will now fight the Higher...
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R&D investment falls behind
British company investment in research and development is falling further behind international competitors despite a 5 per cent rise last year in top firms' investment. The 1998 United Kingdom R&...
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Bruford drama
YOU quote from a college press release that describes the recent student protest and occupation of the Creek Road site of Rose Bruford College as an "orchestrated campaign of misinformation by...
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Democracy and the Teddy Hall affair
The departure of Sir Stephen Tumim from St Edmund Hall (THES, June 19) is being used to launch a number of half-truths and misrepresentations. The fact is that Oxford's and Cambridge's continued...
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Democracy and the Teddy Hall affair
I HAVE just completed ten years as head of one of the larger Oxford colleges; I am not a professional academic; I have a good deal of experience in the running, funding and governing of institutions...
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Democracy and the Teddy Hall affair
Your entertaining piece has a good go at the allegedly archaic college system in Oxford and Cambridge. That St Edmund Hall has fallen out with its recently appointed principal, and that there have...
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Democracy and the Teddy Hall affair
I MUST protest at the parody of the Oxbridge College system given in the article "Quad wrangles". There have been two highly public fallings out between fellows and heads of college in the 1990s....