Sum guy tests NYC
New York's bustling pedestrian traffic has come to a standstill in Times Square, where a crowd is deliberating the proposition: "If Pete sells a 6in pizza for $6, how much should he charge for a 12in...
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TV trio accuses doctor of fraud
An Australian university has promised an external inquiry after accusations of academic fraud and misuse of thousands of dollars of government grants were levelled against a leading professor on...
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War-torn country looks to universities to stop strife
Colombians are pinning their hopes on large-scale higher education improvements as the key to ending the country's 38-year civil conflict, a pre-election survey has revealed. The survey was organised...
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Don's diary: A passover without peace
Wednesday In Israel for a week of research at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial museum and archive. I am met at a deserted Ben Gurion airport by the director of the library, Robert Rozett, with...
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In the news: Neil Turok
Time has neither a beginning nor an end in the model of the universe unveiled yesterday by Neil Turok in collaboration with Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University. Professor Turok argues that the...
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Head in the blue skies
Jaws dropped last week when Sir Alec Broers, vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, appeared not to know that universities that recruit students from underrepresented neighbourhoods get...
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LGU shakes foundation
Education charity the Sir John Cass Foundation is not happy. Apparently, London Guildhall University has not sufficiently consulted the foundation, which owns one of its buildings as well as being a...
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E-'s full of ideas
Among the line-up of speakers at last week's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council annual conference were Gloria Laycock, director of the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at...
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'Outed' candidate fails
Congratulations to Roland Jackson, who has been appointed chief executive of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and commiserations to Jill Nelson, who has not. Dr Jackson, acting...
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Laissez-faire lecturers
The announcement last week of the discovery of the heaviest element, "Administratium", has touched a nerve. An administrator has news of a new economic theory, "Nonpareilism", that describes...
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Oxford firsts
Welcome to William Dutton, professor at the University of Southern California, who will become the first director of the Oxford Internet Institute in July and the University of Oxford's first...
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Nasa's name shame
The Diary has received a new entry for the most painfully contrived acronym competition. The American space agency Nasa has announced plans to launch a Mercury orbiter called MESSENGER in March 2004...
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Autonomy can be just a 'shifted dependency'
As the state relinquishes its grip on universities, other interests are vying for control, warns Ulrike Felt. University reform across Europe is taking place with different degrees of radicalism. In...
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Don't get too cosy...
Forget the warm words, Tony Blair is 'Tory-lite', say Richard Roberts and David Kynaston. "Budgets, like babies, are always little loves when they are first born," Anthony Trollope once remarked....
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Equality requires commitment
Higher education lacks the necessary structures to address pay inequality, argues Malcolm Keight. English higher education institutions have been asked by the Higher Education Funding Council to...