Nightmare future for copyrights
The official representative for European libraries in Brussels warned this week that a draft European Commission directive on copyright could lead to a "nightmare future in which nothing can be...
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Oxford slips in world league for a fee
Oxford University's colleges will soon be no more than "glorified dormitories", Robert Stevens, master of Pembroke College, Oxford, told the Association of University Administrators in America this...
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Tinseltown and gown: Jan Pinkava
(Photograph) - Tinseltown and gown: Jan Pinkava, a University of Wales, Aberystwyth, graduate won an Academy Award Oscar for his short computer-animated film, Geri's Game. Dr Pinkava, who has a first...
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'Racist' Brand loses dismissal appeal
Chris Brand, the self-styled "scientific racist" fired from Edinburgh University for gross misconduct last August, has lost an internal appeal against dismissal. Scottish QC Gordon Coutts has blamed...
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Specialist schools feel pinch
REDUNDANCIES and merger are on the cards for two of Britain's most prestigious specialist higher education institutions. London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies is braced to...
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An email in time
NEW technology shook trade unionism to its foundations this week as employers unveiled next year's higher education pay offer by email. Details of the offer were sent to vice-chancellors by the...
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A Nobel business
Signs of acute publicity hunger at Warwick Business School. David Story, director of the school's centre for small and medium-sized enterprises, has won an award from the Swedish National Board for...
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Art of bodily defence
Brilliant but misunderstood body-part artist Anthony-Noel Kelly was in court this week charged with stealing bits of dead'uns in the name of art. Mr Kelly was joined at Southwark Crown Court by Neil...
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That sinking feeling
Roger Brown, the quality watchdog turned Southampton Institute principal, is unsurprisingly keen to steer clear of the murkier events in the institute's past. He was noticeably nervous posing for...
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Stress barrier
Strathclyde University is suffering from an outbreak of 1984-speak, in which the word "stress" has been replaced by "staff well-being". Staff committee minutes reveal growing concern about stress...
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Ahead of the game
Perhaps the members of the Oxford University branch of the United Nations Association should give up on crisis simulation games and get into predictions instead. The subject chosen some time ago for...
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Polymaths in power
Alumni to be proud of 163 to 165 show that, whatever the inequalities of British higher education, there are some countries where you can be a polytechnic graduate and get right to the top. Deposed...
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Bell sets sights on higher status
A Scottish college widely seen as the victim of political horsetrading 15 years ago is making a bid to move from further education to higher education. Bell College of Technology in Hamilton was one...
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Hain says no to MP call for sackings
Welsh education minister Peter Hain has rejected calls by Labour MPs to sack governors at scandal-hit Gwent Tertiary College. Mr Hain received the request from a trio of Gwent MPs: Llew Smith (...
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Sex assault probe defended
St Austell College this week defended its decision to investigate internally allegations of serious sexual assault, despite the secretary of state's acknowledgement that the matter was "mismanaged"....