Don's Diary
Thursday One week to go before Soundings, our art/science exhibition about the ear, opens at the Royal College of Art. After months of collaboration with my sister Henrietta and with two hospital...
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UfIs in the sky
The University for Industry, recently relaunched for the general public as learndirect, has been given another new name by disgruntled college principals. Fed up with confusion over the lifelong...
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The prophet speaks
The truth is out there. Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, famous for having a silicon chip transponder surgically implanted in his left arm, is to give this year's...
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In the news
'She has a CV that would make the fattest of fat-cat bosses shudder' Rita Donaghy kick-started the TUC annual congress this week with an attack on the sexism that hampers women who are beating a path...
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Missing papers mar solidarity's celebrations
June 1979: Pope John Paul II visits Poland, to acclamation by huge crowds. July 1980: Increases in food prices trigger a wave of strikes throughout Poland, culminating in August in the strike at the...
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Banjul
The University of the Gambia is due to open this autumn with 30 full-time and 20 part-time staff, mostly from outside the country. It expects to have an initial 200 undergraduates on degree...
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An idea to kick around
During their annual conference this week - hosted by Durham University - vice-chancellors enjoyed dinner at one of the most unusual conference dinner venues of recent years - Middlesbrough Football...
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On the move
Stephen Tomlinson, professor of medicine at University of Manchester Medical School, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff. Alan Langlands,...
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Glittering prizes
De Montfort University has awarded an honorary master of arts degree to Rose Hill, British Marathon record-holder and winner of silver medals in the Barcelona Paralympics and Berlin Marathon. The...
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Eyewitness
Sunday is the 20th anniversary of the founding of Poland's Solidarity Trade Union, which led, by domino effect, to the end of one-party rule, not just in Poland, but throughout the Eastern Bloc. For...
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Turning a drop into a ripple
Will the shift in British third world aid to 'in-country' training be a more effective strategy? asks Sheila Vaughan It has taken Britain about 40 years to realise that training aid for developing...
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Smile please
(Photograph) - Vet Kirsty Pickles polishes the teeth of Storm, a patient at William Dick Large Animal Hospital near Edinburgh, which opened last week. Photograph by Atom.
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Elaine Thomas
Elaine Thomas has been chief executive of Surrey Institute of Art and Design since January 2000, not 2001 as reported last week.
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On the move
David Triesman, general secretary of the Association of University Teachers, has been appointed to the Cabinet Office Better Regulation Task Force. Kate Heasman, ex-president of lecturers' union...
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Privatisation: v-cs think the unthinkable
Voluntary privatisation of universities and deregulated tuition fees are among options for radical changes in higher education funding to be considered by vice-chancellors next week. A call for the...