Secrets in the salary packet
Why can't Britainbe a bit more likethe United States and come clean about everybody's wage rises and merit money, asks Keith Soothill I DID not get a salary rise this year. It did not really surprise...
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Lust among lecturers and lectured
Whether it is in the corridors of power or those of academia what is wrong with romance blossoming between two colleagues, asks Mark Griffiths THE Industrial Society reported recently that 40 per...
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Don's Diary
Monday Our second examination week, so we will expect a fair few panicking students in the counselling service where I work. We are all aware of this, and will be looking out for them despite heavy...
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Channel to wider horizons
When I graduated from University College London in 1959, virtually the only non-British students I had met were from the Commonwealth and North America, and it was mostly to the latter that we went...
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It makes you want to turn off your bleeper
The modern political journalist does not need an electronic message bleeper to be told what to think and write. He or she simply regurgitates the last article on the chosen subject. After several...
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Appointments
Public Management and Policy Association. Michael Bichard, permanent secretary at the Department for Education and Employment has been appointed chair of the policy board by the association; the vice...
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Awards
Scientific Committee of the European Amalfi Prize. The committee for sociology and social sciences has awarded the Amalfi Prize to Martin Albrow, professor in the school of sociology and social...
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"Fox" 1998 by Kelly Bushell
(Photograph) - "Fox" 1998 by Kelly Bushell, a third-year BA printmaking student in Brighton. She explains: "The work consists of computer prints which are made up of a combination of drawings and...
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Quality crisis in electronics
Engineering graduates with the skills to design tomorrow's mobile phones and digital televisions can walk straight into well-paid jobs. But university electronic engineering departments are finding...
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Serb rector quits in clash
EUROPE THE RECTOR of Belgrade University resigned last week over the passage through the Serbian parliament of a law that academics and students claim will destroy university autonomy. The...
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Exam fraud rocks Rome's university of knowledge
EUROPE THE LATEST, and possibly worst, of a long history of corruption scandals is rocking the credibility of Europe's largest university, La Sapienza ("Knowledge") University with 180,000 students...
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Tango from Romford
AMERICAS SINCE he was born in Romford, Essex, in January 1954, Nicholas Tozer has gone a long way ... all the way to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he has become a member of the country's unique...
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Hispanics to get 'English-only' schooling
AMERICAS THE SCRAPPING of bilingual education in Californian schools could have an adverse effect on university and college access for the state's Spanish-speakers, according to its opponents, writes...
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Africa sharpens engineers' skills
AFRICA Universities in sub-Saharan Africa must markedly improve the standard of engineering and technical education if the region is to move beyond the stage of assembling products and achieve...
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V-cs issue guidelines on campus meningitis
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals is distributing guidelines for managing meningitis to all universities.