Load of Trollope
Politics may have changed since Anthony Trollope chronicled the doings of the nation's elite in his Pallisers sequence of novels, but the names appear to be much the same. Ged Martin of Edinburgh...
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Bible bashed
Antithesis's long hot summer outing to Krakow in Poland reveals a useful sub-department of the Jagiellonian University, founded in 1364. Now a tourist attraction, the university jail was used for...
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Food for thought
Progress on the new Department for Education and Employment, which this week invited education scribblers to meet its armful of ministers, appears to be rapid. The shiny DFE plate on the head office...
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Field of dreams
An estate agent's dream: hundreds of people have been turning up to view Westerlands, Glasgow University's playing fields which have just been put up for sale. The interest, however, is not so much...
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Walden found office unedifying
Retiring Conservative MP George Walden's disillusionment with party politics began during his spell as minister for higher education. Mr Walden, who this week announced his decision not to stand...
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Review frenzy sets Royal observatories reeling
The astronomy community is reeling after the announcement of another review of the Royal observatories, which will bring the number of reviews this year to three and continue a chain of studies that...
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Internet draft law threatens colleges
Universities could be sued for defamatory comments that their employees have put on the internet, is one of the implications of a draft Bill just published by the Lord Chancellor's department. The...
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Lib Dems back learning accounts
An independent commission set up by Paddy Ashdown, leader of the Liberal Democrats, has backed the idea of individual learning accounts as the best way of achieving a learning society. Headed by Lord...
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Natfhe action looms over Derby job losses
The threat of compulsory redundancies at the University of Derby has resulted in a warning from lecturers' union Natfhe that it will take legal action to protect its members there. The union claims...
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British Academy cuts PhD years
Postgraduates with British Academy funding are being told to complete their research within four years, in common with deadlines being set by the research councils. The academy's Humanities Research...
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Course choice is gender issue
Sex stereotypes persist in the choice of courses by male and female students, the first comprehensive survey of the United Kingdom's expanded university sector reveals. Just 15 per cent of...
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Driving ambition:Douglas Shortridge
(Photograph) - Driving ambition:Douglas Shortridge achieved a lifetime's ambition recently when he was driven in a red Ferrari from his home in Leeds to the University of York to receive his honorary...
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Sad end to a crusade
The visitor's decision was that the candidate had simply failed to make the grade. On June 30 1995 Mr Justice McPherson, sitting as a visitor to the Inns of Court, dismissed Cecilia Hulse's appeal....
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Skin-deep dilemmas
The page in The THES allotted to research is, I am sure, generally appreciated by readers. However, I must object to the form of presentation of the article on "skin" (July 7) which was...
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Brain &
Huw Richards suggests (THES, July 21) that the proposed new sports scholarships should be given a new name. Why not Bannister scholarships, after one of Britain's greatest sportsman who showed how it...