Stress and the single manager
Spare a thought for the poor research manager. To humble researchers the job may seem glamorous, well paid and powerful, but the reality is a life of stress and overwork. They are forever juggling...
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Tangier - polyglot city at the crossroads
Paul Bowles lives there with his Spanish translator, the Guatemalan short story writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa. The flat overlooks the minaret of a new mosque which in turn overlooks Guettas restaurant...
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Chair for thought
Oxford University has received a Pounds 350,000 benefaction in support of the chair of European thought at Balliol College. The five-year benefaction comes from a British businessman. The chair will...
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Belt and braces hold up show
Are plans for quality assurance heralded in a new report on the right lines? Three readers think not. The structure of my teaching is overseen by a hierarchy of at least three different committees....
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Don's Diary
Laughter and disbelief were my initial reactions. Laughter because the letter said I was invited to become an artist in residence at the University of Wollongong. The title is a result of the fact...
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Dropped out
One in ten of London's homeless living in hostels are graduates, according to a survey by The St Mungo Community Housing Association. The survey of 224 hostel residents aged over 21 found that the...
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Cool for kids
(Photograph) - Amy Staunton's fashion prediction for childrens-wear in the near future won her Pounds 4,320 in this year's Royal Society of Arts student design awards. Ms Staunton, aged 21, is a...
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Carry on Gardiner
Alumnus to be proud of no. 51 is Sir George Gardiner, Conservative (of a very distinctive sort) MP for Reigate. A former confidant and hagiographer of Margaret Thatcher, his threat to resign in the...
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Science masters the media
Queen's University in Belfast and Dublin City University have launched a joint masters course, aimed at bridging the gap between science and the arts. The degree is the first joint Irish-United...
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Australian protests at heavy cuts
As thousands of university students protested around Australia at the prospect of heavy cuts in higher education spending, the Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee released figures showing that...
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Upsetting the apple cart
Are plans for quality assurance heralded in a new report on the right lines? Three readers think not. The quality game that has been played out in British higher education has achieved its only...
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Reed reader
(Photograph) - Jean Armstrong of the applied biology unit at the University of Hull measures gas-flow from the reeds along the banks of the river Hull. She has been awarded a grant of Pounds 112,000...
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The rewarding of excellence
The most intractable problem facing Sir Ron Dearing is not that of funding students - for which solutions awaiting only political will have long been available - but of funding institutions. How...
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Leyland survives to face more flak
David Leyland, director of Southampton Institute, last week won a confidential vote of confidence at an emergency governors' meeting by what one governor called "a slim majority". Lecturers' union...
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Cutlass slashes mystique of Northern Lights
The secrets of the Northern Lights, that curious, spectacular light show in the northern hemisphere, could soon be revealed thanks to Pounds 1 million study by scientists at Leicester University....