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Alumni to be proud of no 10: Trevor Newton, the Yorkshire Water chief whose personal hygiene became the subject of disbelieving national scrutiny last week, may or may not have learned his unique...
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Don't panic
(Photograph) - Linda Cowan, senior information and recruitment officer at the University of Abertay Dundee, shows off the university's new automated inquiry system on the World Wide Web. Prospective...
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Horse player
Does departing HEFCE chief Graeme Davies have an unrevealed enthusiasm for four-legged friends? A few weeks before his arrival as vice chancellor of the University of Glasgow, the place is raising...
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Genuine article
While most university libraries complain that the cuts are robbing them of books to put on their shelves, Aberdeen University has shown unusual generosity. Rolf Rehberg, a historian from Mecklenburg'...
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Different strokes
The latest term of abuse among US academics, according to psychologist Stuart Anstiss, is a "Monet" - "someone who looks good from a distance but a mess from close up". He told a meeting that he had...
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Bolognese mix-up
Nice to know that Scottish universities will acknowlege their organisational debt to the Italian university system - whose Bologna-style student-led model they adopted several hundred years ago in...
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True blue Labour
Always a handy source of unlikely information, the PUSH Which University guide reveals that Warwick University's famous alumni include "David Davis (Labour MP)". Odd this. He thinks he is a...
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Disqualified
We can think of lots of reasons why one might want to be critical of Brian Mawhinney, the abrasive chairman of the Conservative Party, but a recent assertion in the Daily Mail that "he insists on...
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Wave of enthusiasm
Suzanne Docherty, a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, has revealed in the student edition of the British Medical Journal that preclinical lectures can be more exciting than...
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Pictured posts
Not a bad idea of Essex University's to pull 12 months of Bulletins into an omnibus volume. But it has its down side. Given the sort of photographs that appear in university newsletters, an entire...
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DEE cuts top staff by a third
A senior management shake-up in the new Department for Education and Employment will involve cutting the number of top civil servant posts by a third, the Government announced this week. A new...
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College lecturers get new union
Breakaway college lecturers are setting up a new trade union following the failure of the Colleges Legal Fund to bring a test case to court to establish the illegality of new further education...
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Down the mine
The University of Exeter's Camborne school of mines is hoping to attract more students thanks to a Government-backed campaign aimed at addressing a shortage of mining engineers. The college has its...
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Funding deal likely for research centres
A funding deal for eight interdisciplinary research centres allied to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is close to being finalised following a meeting between centre directors...
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Direct entry hits shrinking college rolls
Colleges recruiting degree and sub-degree students are finding competition from universities particularly damaging this year, writes Alison Utley. Initial reports indicate that numbers are down in...