Dons's Diary
Monday Lazy Cypriot winter's morning: relaxing in my over-grown garden. Weather is mild and clear. I finish reading Dervish, the Making of Modern Turkey by journalist Tim Kelsey. Very enjoyable, if...
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The growl and the pussycat
I once tried to tackle the issue of a colleague who was being systematically bullied by her superior. I complained to someone higher up but was told no action could be taken without witnesses and,...
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Weave ideas for material change
Organisational learning is far more difficult to achieve than individual learning, since knowledge has to be shared and woven into an institution's very fabric. Ideally, organisational learning...
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Phil Redmond
(Photograph) - Head start: Phil Redmond, creator of TV soap Brookside and honorary professor at Liverpool John Moores University was the first viewer of the Web site promoting JMU's Millennium...
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Ulster apologies
The Thes January 3 issue reported that Queen's University received top ratings in the research assessment exercise for its research on cancer, ageing and diet. It is in fact the University of Ulster...
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Cornwall delayed
Exeter University's bid to build a Cornwall campus at Trereife, Penzance, has hit a hitch. The Millennium Commission has deferred a decision on a Pounds 35 million grant for a second time pending a...
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Students suffer technostress
Computers are supposed to be time-saving devices that make life easier and more convenient. But an American psychology professor contends that on about a quarter of university and college students...
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Leeds leads
An Edwardian listed building has been transformed into a Pounds 4.5 million high-tech library for Leeds Metropolitan University students. The Beckett Park Learning Centre housed within the campus's...
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Northern lights
University College Suffolk has linked with the most northerly campus in the world, Tromso in Norway, to develop research into distance education, particularly teacher training by email and...
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Better by design
Coventry University has won Pounds 30,000 funding from the Department for Education and Employment under its Discipline Network scheme to establish a national network in Information Design linking...
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De Montfort refashions Soviet satellites
University leaders in St Petersburg are working with a British university to improve the city's academic communications by using spare capacity on old Soviet military satellites. The Pounds 72,000...
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IT benefits 'may not save cash'
Information technology can enhance education but does not always save money, vice chancellors and other policy-makers will be told at a meeting in London on January 22. The decision-makers will hear...
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Leeds opens front line on unpublished texts
Education's grey literature is getting organised. Preprints and reports on education and training that have not yet appeared in printed journals, and perhaps never will, are to be collected and...
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Mechanical mistake
The THES December issue reported that the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Electronics and Electrical Incorporated Engineers are considering merging. It is the Institution...
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Dogs reservoir
Good news for collectors of the academic acronym with the creation of a new designation, that of Directors Of Graduate Study in the graduate school at Royal Holloway, University of London. No doubt...