Star turn
Alison Utley flies in the plane that carried the A-bomb and, together with a peace studies lecturer and his MA students at Bradford University, decides whether to bomb Nagasaki. If this was physics,...
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The sense in satisfaction
Do student feedback surveys offer real customer care or are they just a marketing ploy? Lee Harvey explains the University of Central England's pioneering approach to satisfaction surveys Getting...
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The temptation of skiving off and mugging up
Jennifer Currie, a former English literature student at Glasgow University, describes her most boring lecture: It was always with a guilty conscience that I would decide against attending this...
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Agony aunt
Some of my first-year students are very reluctant to participate in tutorials. What is the best way of encouraging them without embarrassing them in the process? You may find that students who feel...
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Belgrade denies visa to Nobel prizewinner
A plan to send a high-profile international academic mission to Belgrade to show support for embattled Serbian academics has collapsed after visas were refused by the Yugoslav government. The...
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Keele asked to pay back books grant
Keele University has been forced to hand back a British Library grant for binding rare mathematics books whose sale has angered academics. The library recalled the Pounds 10,000 grant after Christmas...
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V-cs defend nurse training
University vice-chancellors will this week defend the place of nurse training in higher education following health secretary Frank Dobson's demand for reform. A delegation from the Committee of Vice-...
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Axe over jobs with no link to research
Up to 60 academics may face the axe at a London college in an attempt to boost ratings in the research assessment exercise. Queen Mary and Westfield College is discussing offering voluntary...
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Eye witness
Tension is high in the Middle East in the aftermath of Operation Desert Fox. The big question is how far United States and United Kingdom air strikes on Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's chemical and...
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University-of-Sussex
The University of Sussex, not the University of Surrey (THES, December 25), is to close its successful primary postgraduate certificate of education course next academic year.
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Warm-up
(Photograph) - David Atkinson of Liverpool University's school of biological sciences takes samples from an artificial pond built at Ness Gardens in the Wirral to test the impact of global warming....
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New Year's Honours
LIFE PEERS Onora O'Neill, principal of Newnham College, Cambridge; Sir Naren Patel, consultant obstetrician Ninewells Hospital, Dundee and lately president, Royal College of Obstetricians and...
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Milan
A law graduand at Milan's state university is under investigation on forgery charges following the discovery of three bogus "excellent" examination passes. Rector Paolo Mantegazza reported the case...
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Stockholm
Carl Tham, Sweden's minister of science and education until the general election last September, is to be chairman of the board of Sweden's Institute for Future Studies. The institute was formed in...
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Dealer to export Keele books
International book dealer Simon Finch has applied to export rare mathematics books sold by Keele University, despite assurances to the contrary. The university insists: "We were told the collection...