Don's diary
Wednesday I spend the whole day driving, passing through Boni and Hombori, two tiny African villages to the east of Bamako in Mali. Along the way, we pick up a soldier who has an AK-47. His weapon-...
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Ministerial models
A sneak preview of next year's news stories Education ministers are enrolling as mature students as part of education secretary David Blunkett's plans to set a good lifelong learning example. Further...
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Can't eat, won't eat
A sneak preview of next year's news stories The campaign against genetically modified crops is to be extended to all food. Protesters launched the "Don't eat dinner" action after receiving documents...
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Poems and photos offer insights into physics
Strathclyde University has unleashed two radical weapons - poetry and photography - in the battle to improve public understanding of science. Dino Jaroszynski and Brian McNeil of Strathclyde's...
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Study finds heads 'out of touch'
Universities are becoming "fractured" communities, thanks to the emergence of a cadre of senior manager-academics who have lost touch with teaching and research, a national study has found, writes...
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Give us Pounds 5 billion and we'll give back more
The CVCP aims to persuade the government that higher education is vital to wealth creation and social inclusion. Tony Tysome reports Vice-chancellors conjured scenes from Oliver Twist last week, when...
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Richard Baker
By all accounts Richard Baker, leader of the National Union of Students in Scotland, is the very model of a modern student leader. Once criticised by some for backing the formation of the Cubie...
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On the move
Roger Brown, principal of Southampton Institute, has been elected vice chairman of the Standing Conference of Principals. The other vice-chairman is John Carter, chief executive of Edge Hill College...
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Glittering prizes
Jagdish Gundara of London University's Institute of Education, has been elected president of the International Association of Intercultural Education, which is based in Sweden and publishes the...
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Language and power in Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan president Sapar-myrat Niyazov has decreed that the 21st century will be a "golden" age in which "science, education and learning will become the great pillars of the nation and social...
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Verona
A professor sacked two years ago for accusing medical staff of professional negligence has been on hunger strike since December 7. Michele Nigro, 56, head pathology consultant at the state hospital...
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Ouagadougou
University campuses in the capital of Burkina Faso and at Bobo Diolasso, the country's second biggest city, have been closed indefinitely following a wave of protests by students and human rights...
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Perugia
Italian children up to nine years of age are determined to believe in Father Christmas, according to a study by the Observatory of Magical Phenomena at the University of Perugia. From a sample of 500...
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Study entente set to continue
Canada and the European Union have announced six new joint university teaching projects, at a time when their education officials are negotiating an extension to the agreement that funds such...
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Rector dispute fuels fee strike
MEXICO CITY Students who have been instrumental in closing down the National Autonomous University of Mexico for the past seven months in a dispute over tuition fees have accused the government of...