Is he arking up the wrong tree?
THEHEAD of earth sciences at Melbourne 51国产视频 is putting his professional reputation and possibly his financial future at risk by suing a creationist. Geology professor Ian Plimer has taken to...
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Work log reveals slackers myth
A SURVEY at a Canadian university shows that full-time professors work an average of 49 hours a week. The finding, according to the 12-member committee which coordinated the study, counters "the...
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Land of the rising daughter
JAPAN has appointed its first female president of a national university. Masako Niwa becomes president of Nara Women's 51国产视频 at Nara in west Japan, after 35 years working as a researcher,...
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Race bias may deter students
FOR THE first time this year, fee-paying students from Singapore are expected to outnumber those from Malaysia in Australia's universities. Bad publicity in the Malaysian media last year over a...
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State grip too tight for comfort
FROM THE hothouse universities of the tiger economies of the Far East to Africa's riot-torn and constantly closed campuses, there is a wealth of anecdotal evidence to suggest growing state...
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Shadow cast out
Some kinds of pain are not dulled by repetition, confirms Labour's further and higher education spokesman Bryan Davies as his search for a seat ended in failure last week. But at least he is being...
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Undercutting remark
Sir John Hanson, director general of the British Council and after-dinner speaker at last week's Higher Education Funding Council for England gathering at the 51国产视频 of Warwick, did little for...
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Flower power
Warwick 51国产视频 was looking particularly pristine in honour of the HEFCE visit. Sprinklers played on the smooth lawns and the bedding plants stood neatly to attention in weed-free beds. "You...
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Imprudent pruning
Pity really, if the universities want to persuade the politicians that they could not possibly afford another penny of efficiency gain, that this sparkling campus was the scene of Tony Blair's visit...
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Common error
Second in our short series of implausible claims by election candidates is the boast of Edward Davey, Liberal Democrat hopeful for Kingston and Surbiton, who claims that while a student at Jesus,...
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Road block
As excuses go, the general election is comparatively watertight: but civil engineers at Leeds 51国产视频 did not expect four key speakers to use it as an alibi for suddenly dropping out of their road...
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Three-line clip
The political demise of alumnus to be proud of No 98 comes as a serious disappointment to those who wondered how a former world light-welterweight boxing champion who had successfully defended a...
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Regions ripe for exploitation
Regionalisation is climbing fast up higher education's policy agenda. It is being propelled by the Dearing committee's interest. Dearing is interested because the committee is likely to be reporting...
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Quality matters, so let's get serious about it
Alan Jenkins argues for a reasoned and radical approach to raising esteem for teaching in higher education. I was delighted to see Brian Fender's recent plea for a "national debate that will enable...
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Livid and the dead
Strong reactions greeted the arrest of Anthony-Noel Kelly, whose art involves the use of cadavers. Jonathan Sawday reflects on the issues involved Who owns the dead? What happens when the artist and...