Don's diary: games and gold medals in Mind
Friday All keyed up for tomorrow's start of the Mind Sports Olympiad - an annual games festival in which all the contests are thinking games and competitions using other mental skills. Anyone may...
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Honoured with a whipping
Hats off to Bob Stone. The professor of interactive multimedia systems at the University of Birmingham has received the unusual distinction of being made an honorary Cossack for his services to...
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A way ahead for wayward birds
A novel application has emerged from the work of Yohsuke Kamide, from Nagoya University in Japan, who has developed a system that tracks variations in the Earth's magnetic field caused by subatomic...
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Can cook, won't pay
TV chef Clarissa Dickson Wright, the student-elected rector of Aberdeen University, has an unconventional solution to student debt. The star of Two Fat Ladies - who is filing for bankruptcy - is...
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Cheers! Students are back
Drinks companies are counting their takings after hundreds of freshers' week events up and down the country. Last week, Inventive Leisure, the company behind the Revolution vodka-bar chain, announced...
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Why I ... think the Booker is relevant to the study of literature
Does the Booker Prize have any relevance to the academic study of literature? The answer is a complicated yes. Winning novels, and many shortlisted ones, constitute a chief part of the (non-US)...
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Don't lose MSc magic
Undergraduate top-ups lead the news but masters students will be hit harder, says Bruce Yardley Mention "fees" to most people and the first thing they think about is the cost of undergraduate courses...
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Top billing for bad creditors
While universities have learnt to generate income, they can be slow to collect the cash, says Peter Buckle English universities earn more than £2 billion each year from commercial activities such as...
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How to avoid falling into the parent trap
Students today come with mum and dad attached. Valerie Atkinson offers some advice on how to deal with them. Sometimes, when a student's parent contacts a departmental office, there is no alternative...
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Jobwatch: Lancaster begins Rae push
The university's history and English departments are revving up their recruitment drive in pursuit of the much coveted 6* status in the next research assessment exercise. Caroline Davis reports....
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Who got that job?
Carol Granger, 42 Job advertised, THES, November 22 2002 DE MONFORT UNIVERSITY UK Human Tissue Bank (UKHTB) Customer Liaison Manager Circa £35,000 Fixed term - One year contract The UK...
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Plotted progress that will benefit all parties
Progress files are benefiting tutors and students. Angela Smallwood describes a growing assessment initiative. It all started in 1993. That autumn I took on the job of director of studies at the...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Guglielmo Volpe Age : 38 Job : Senior lecturer in economics, London Metropolitan University. Salary : about £24,000...
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Experts dismiss vampire reptile claim
It should be one of the palaeontological announcements of the decade - the discovery of a fossilised vampire pterosaur that drank the blood of dinosaurs. But scientists regard the research delivered...
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V-cs pan Hefce bid to redirect funding
The number of universities forced to hand back millions of pounds could double to nearly 50 next year under teaching cash reforms outlined by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The...