Auburn alumnus killed
The CIA agent killed while interrogating Taliban prisoners before the Mazar-e-Sharif uprising last week was a graduate of Auburn University, the Alabama school where students celebrated Hallowe'en...
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A hard life for freshers
University College London's student magazine, Pi , paints an unappealing picture of life as a fresher at the college. Term started with weeping first-years unable to contact their mummies because the...
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Tony caught on the hop
Tony Blair had an uncomfortable encounter last week when he bumped into students from the Campaign for Free Education in the House of Commons. The leftie protestors were having a fag break in a handy...
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Shelf-serving offer?
The University of Texas is lobbying to host the presidential library of George W. Bush. Larry Faulkner, university president, has plans for two possible sites: one in northwest Austin on university-...
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Don's Diary: Cuban cinema lecture tour
Sunday As I arrive in Chicago en route to Toronto, an immigration officer calls out instructions on how to fill in our arrival cards, then adds, less officiously: "The only place where we like to see...
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The next 100 years
The Nobel prize is celebrating its 100th birthday. A statement by Nobel laureates marks the occasion. The most profound danger to world peace in the coming years will stem not from the irrational...
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Why I believe science and technology should have no borders
The 20th century was the century of scientific inquiry and technological innovation. It filled our lives with new gadgets and new understanding. More profoundly, science and technology have informed...
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This is the £3.7 billion question
Stephen Court looks at what 50 per cent participation in higher education really means and asks if it is achievable. Although education had a low profile in the chancellor's pre-budget report last...
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Listen to learners
Student feedback has a crucial role to play in evaluating institutional performance, writes Lee Harvey. Student feedback surveys have a unique element: they provide an insider view of what is really...
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We have the way, but is there the will?
To rid the world of chemical weapons requires sustained political and financial commitment, argues John Hart Chemical weapons have been a feature of conflict throughout the 20th century, employed by...
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A time bomb for the 21st century
Chemical warfare is a growing threat, but we know very little about its long-term implications, argue Christine Gosden and Derek Gardener. The 20th century provided a catalogue of weapons that could...
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Funders to 'collaborate'
The research councils should be "capable of operating as a 'virtual single council'" whose boundaries are invisible to the people they work with. This is the message of the quinquennial review of the...
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Protest over scrapping ILAs
A barrage of complaints over ministers' decision to ditch individual learning accounts will be brought to the government's door next week with a lobby of MPs and a cross-party forum at the House of...
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Action to crush Kurd language campaign
Turkey's Higher Education Authority (Yok) has told pro-Kurdish students that they face expulsion if they press for Kurdish-language rights in universities. The use of the language in universities...
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Courtauld becomes London college The Courtauld Institute of Art is to become a college of the University of London. At present it is an integral part of the central university with no separate legal...