Don's Diary
Saturday. Dream I am a professor lecturing to a class of naked male students. Tussling in bed, split the crowd into groups. Students move about reminding me of the benefits of being a didactic kind...
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Short-lived campaign
Headlines this week heralding a huge rise in university numbers must have pleased the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, which announced a campaign to push for more places only on Friday....
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Godthab
Lise Lennert, a school inspector, has been appointed minister of culture, education and research in Greenland, following last month's general election. Ms Lennert is not a member of the Greenland...
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University degree in catching the tube
Plymouth University is looking to catch surfing's wave of popularity with the country's first degree in surf science and technology. The university will offer places to about 20 students this...
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Glittering prizes
Ettore Sottsas, 81, has received the 1999 Sir Misha Black Memorial Medal for Distinguished Service to Design Education. The medal, instituted as a memorial to designer and teacher Sir Misha Black...
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On the move
Bernadette Porter, senior pro rector and principal of Digby Stuart College at Roehampton, has been appointed rector and chief executive of the Roehampton Institute, London, from September. She...
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National Union of Students
Full of ex-servicemen after the first world war, long-haired radicals in the 1970s and people with pagers in the 1990s, style in the National Union of Students has changed. But many of the central...
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Eye witness
When the Baltimore Orioles and Cuba's national baseball team meet in Havana this month, it will be the first fruit of the "baseball diplomacy" aimed at improving relations between the two countries...
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Beijing
Students who were injured and relatives of those who died in the Tiananmen Square crackdown in June 1989, when tanks and troops ended democracy movement demonstrations, have asked the Chinese...
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Vienna
The Austrian minister for research and science, Caspar Einem, has called for the 1934 concordat with Rome to be revised. It means the appointment of staff in university theology departments has to be...
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Freetown
The Sierra Leone government has ordered the reopening of the country's Fourah-Bay University after the Liberian-backed rebels were driven from the capital, Freetown. Lecturers and students who...
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Moscow
A group of Russian mafiosi who robbed a currency exchange office at Moscow State University 18 months ago have been given prison sentences following a city court case. The gang was caught after a...
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Lecturers greet pay offer with walk-out
As the academic year began in Australia last week, students who turned up for classes at the universities of Sydney and New South Wales found their lecturers had gone on strike. In the first skirmish...
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Thais pursue free information
Decades of elitism and cronyism in the Thai education system could be swept away by an official information act that is forcing universities, schools and the country's conservative bureaucracy into a...
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Japan plans fast-track for high-fliers
University students with exceptional grades should be allowed to graduate after three years, instead of the present four, according to a report from Japan's University Council. The suggestion is part...