Don's Diary
MONDAY afternoon: Receive my first set of senior papers to grade. Randomly choose one to read. The title, "Orlando ain't no chick" reminds me that this is definitely, as they would say in these parts...
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Straying power
Four years is how long the human pair bond is designed to last, according to American anthropologist Helen Fisher. Lucy Hodges reports. Forget the seven-year itch. Most divorces occur after an...
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A marriage of minds
Academic marriages are commonplace but universities can have problems accommodating both spouses. John Davies looks at how scholarly couples cope. What could be more natural than for academics to...
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Death in the community
Michael Burleigh on the reaction of German health professionals and relatives to the murder of their mentally ill by the Nazis. My work on Nazi Germany began with a book on the supine involvement of...
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Empire state building
Robert Skidelsky argues that the West would be foolish if it did not come to the aid of Yeltsin's Russia. When Boris Yeltsin took over the presidency of the Russian Federation in June 1991 he found...
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Guildhall morale very low
Management and unions have been in discussions this week at London Guildhall University following a staff survey showing widespread low morale and a vote of no confidence in one faculty dean. The...
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External examiners given OK
The external examiner system should continue, according to a survey by the Open University's Validation Services of the 50 institutions it accredits. The survey, Using External Examiners, found that...
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Blunkett disapproval
(Photograph) - Blunkett disapproval: David Blunkett, right, shadow education secretary, and Bryan Davies, Labour's further and higher education spokesman, were joined by student and lecturers' union...
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Sudden staff redundancy queried
A governor of Portsmouth University has asked the Higher Education Funding Council to investigate the college because of concern over the sudden redundancy of the deputy vice chancellor, whom staff...
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East End job plan launched
Unemployed graduates in London's East End will soon be able to enrol on an innovative job-seeking scheme run by the local Training and Enterprise Council. Gradplan is being offered by London East TEC...
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Fulbright killers get 18 years
Three black South Africans who stabbed, stoned and bludgeoned American exchange student Amy Biehl to death in a Cape Town shanty town last year have each been sentenced to 18 years in jail for what...
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Trojan horse mired in A-level mud
Vocational and academic. You might have thought we would have learned by now. But no. With the millennium fast approaching, these remain poles apart, like chalk and cheese. Worse still, there are few...
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Remember, remember November
The current debate about the university year, provoked by the move towards modular courses and semester-based teaching, has focused on an early September start. But why is nobody taking seriously the...
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Past Masters
David Weatherall pays tribute to the man who asked him to eat asparagus in the name of research, Cyril Clarke When I obtained my medical degree from Liverpool University in 1956 I was, as cell...
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First and last
(Photograph) - First and last: the launch of Inter-Arc, an electronic media network that forms part of the Arc Atlantique project promoting tourism, maritime communications and the environment, took...