Scots fear Higher Still mishmash
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Scottish Office minister for education, said this week that Government plans to reform school-leaving examinations do not assume a change in Scotland's broad-based four-...
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Principal's wife gets her job on merit alone
An Edinburgh University inquiry has dismissed allegations that a post was "conjured up" for Sheena Sutherland, wife of the university principal, Stewart Sutherland, as a precondition of his accepting...
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PC football
Somebody clearly feels nostalgia for that brief transition period of history when the polytechnics were independent of local authorities, but had yet to attain university status. Spotted in last week...
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Collision course
A semi-naked man lying on a bed of nails and under three concrete blocks forms the cover photo of the latest Cern Courier, the particle physics journal. The man, who is about to be hit with a...
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Miffed amateur
Tom McCool, chief executive of the Scottish Vocational Council, speaking at a conference on the implications of school examination reforms, admitted that one of the reasons he hated having to follow...
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Touting Taylors
Is there no limit to this man's talents? asks a reader who spotted a Stage advert for Laurie Taylor: The Ideal Cabaret for your function: Sings Your Favourite Sinatra and Manilow Songs ? Probably not...
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Dead heat
This week's award for timing goes to the University of Essex, whose press release about its involvement in the Alfa Latin American student exchange network (see above) coincided with a story in its...
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Mr Lobby
A good second in the same class is Public Policy Review, which dropped on journalists' desks with an article titled "Lobbyists: Where would MPs be without them?"
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Essex is rewarded for its Latin link
Essex University is to be the British link in a planned European Union-funded Latin American exchange programme. Vice chancellor Ron Johnston has signed a letter of intent signalling Essex's...
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Bad managers cause stress
Aggressive and poor management is one of the main causes of high levels of stress and illness among staff in both further and higher education according to Natfhe, the University and College...
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Forensic centre pioneers the scientific study of mummies
Manchester University has launched what it claims is the world's first centre for biomedical and forensic studies in Egyptology. The move follows pioneering work on developing methods of studying...
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Oxford inquiry promises sparks
Members of Oxford University's new commission of inquiry have begun their deliberations on the internal and external workings of England's oldest seat of learning with instructions to "be prepared to...
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Temp problems
The layout of an advertisement for lectureships in African politics at Oxford University last week may have stopped a few hearts beating. The ad, which appeared in the press placed the words "...
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Drunk with power
Arithmetical revisionism struck with a vengeance in the Open Business School's trawl of alumni to find out if they would mind being offered crates of wine as an inducement to recruit students onto...
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Nasty scratch
Ivy League universities share the Oxbridge tendency to be rude about each other, and an example from the Princeton-educated F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack-up (published posthumously in 1945)...