Islands' medic hope
A private medical school in the Cayman Islands graduated its first doctors this month as part of a bid to prevent the islands' would-be doctors leaving for overseas. St Matthew's University School of...
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College sued over gag zone
A student is suing a California college for limiting public speaking to three designated "free-speech areas" in the latest of a series of disputes involving freedom of expression on increasingly...
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Sars fear prompts ban
Some US universities are blocking Chinese students from attending summer programmes because of a fear of severe acute respiratory syndrome. Harvard University has also banned them from graduation...
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Five-year restriction on Hecs
Australian students will be limited to the equivalent of five years' full-time study if they are admitted to a government-subsidised place after January 2005. Under the learning entitlement system,...
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If UK insists on hiding, it could end in 'nul points'
Britain's commitment to Europe was not mentioned in the white paper, yet it is key to success, says Juliet Lodge. Discussion of a new constitution and the timing of Britain's potential adoption of...
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Alison Wolf
Since winning scarce resources is what matters, UUK is unlikely to do anything to rock the government policy boat. Higher education policies are diverging at enormous speed under devolution, which...
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Don's diary: A sustainable road
Monday Sustainability Week, an annual demonstration that everyone can act sustainably, has arrived. Weeks of planning for my young colleagues come to fruition. They are keyed up and ready to go. My...
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May 24: v. important vote
Tensions were running high at the Natfhe conference at the weekend, where rival factions thrashed out union policy on the Middle East, the war in Iraq and the future of British higher education. But...
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Italian job
Education secretary Charles Clarke will be alarmed to see a table in the Scottish Economic Policy Network's recent report on funding research in Scotland's universities highlighting the cash going to...
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The 'key' to failure
Hopes of winning the Eurovision Song Contest were dashed last Saturday when the British entry failed to score any points. The song, Cry Baby, was penned by Martin Isherwood, head of music at the...
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Earning but no learning
The Diary has been trawling through the Department for Education and Skills website trying to find an insight into the purpose of a university. The site lists six benefits of taking a degree. Five...
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There's the rub...
A postgraduate student, a postdoc and a professor find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a genie emerges in a puff of smoke. The genie says: "I usually grant only three wishes, so I'll give each...
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Why I ...want to see films in Oxford University's Bodleian Library
I do a lot of research in the Bodleian Library. Whether it's an original manuscript by Congreve, an obscene 19th-century pamphlet or a more recent tome that can't easily be skimmed in Borders,...
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Magic way to true self
To glimpse our posthuman future, ditch Habermas and watch The Wizard of Oz, says Carl Elliott. These are boom times for speculators about our posthuman future. Now that the human genome has been...
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Today's news
Prince acknowledges students' debt worries Students have "just cause" to be worried about the burden of loans and student fees, Prince William said yesterday, during an interview to mark his 21st...