A throttle on expansion
A familiar theme caught the ears of MPs ensconced in the committee rooms of Westminster late last term. They recognised it as the one whistled along corridors at the Department for Education and...
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Kenyan students go on rampage
Kenyatta University closed indefinitely late last year following riots. More than 5,000 students went on the rampage for two consecutive days, raiding kitchens and damaging property. There were...
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Pirates battle over degrees
Some British universities operating in Turkey are involved in illegal education programmes, the country's higher education board, YOK, has alleged. YOK, which administers and supervises Turkish...
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French win call for fair share
PARIS Former French interior minister Charles Pasqua has agreed to share some of the resources of his regional council's private "university" with the public sector. However, state university...
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Italy loses brain gain
ROME A programme to lure back scores of eminent Italian scientists who have left Italy to work abroad has failed to meet expectations. The special law, passed in 1988, established salaries of up to...
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World gives mapmakers a geochemical feast
An ambitious plan to map the globe's geochemistry could help pinpoint the causes of diseases, land desecration and minerals for exploitation. The British Geological Survey is a key player in the...
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How to transmit the AIDS story
How to mount a public information exercise like the HIV and AIDS campaign with a "disappearing public" is a central theme of "Transmission '96" at Salford University later this year. The arrival of...
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Maastricht money, but no Monet
Art educators from all over Europe gathered in Birmingham last term to debate style, structure and the Maastricht Treaty. Their interest in the treaty was focussed on a principle laid down in...
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Arise Sir Graeme
Graeme Davies's service as chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England has won him the expected award of a knighthood in the New Year's honours list. Sir Richard Doll,...
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New Year Honours
Companion of Honour Sir William Richard Doll for services toepidemiology. Knighthoods David Carter, Regius professor of clinical surgery, Edinburgh University. Cyril Chantler, Children Nationwide...
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Off beat
Alumna to be proud of no. 25 is MP Emma Nicholson, recent defector from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats. Her alma mater is hard to guess from her subsequent activities, which include...
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Commons campus
Is it an unconscious expression of the University of Westminster's expansionist dreams that led it to send a Christmas card illustrated with the Houses of Parliament? Or perhaps it was intended as a...
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Bar stool
To get to King's College bar just travel to Waterloo, catch the Eurostar to Brussels and journey from there to Aachen in Germany. Brian Meek of King's College London went to Aachen, where he was so...
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Einstein a no no
The dream research team of Socrates, Einstein and Wittgenstein would spell disaster for research assessment exercise ratings, says Alistair MacFarlane, principal of Heriot-Watt University. Socrates...
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Smoked out
To ensure that people stick to their New Year resolutions, Glasgow University's geology department has stuck a notice on its wall warning: "Smoking is prohibited outside thisbuilding."