Literal lament
Sideswipe no 99, spotted by Guy Judge of the department of economics at Portsmouth University, comes from Louis de Berni res' Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994): "Philosophers who have only one idea...
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Love letter
Officials at the Department of Environment have put in a spirited bid for the title of most inaccurately addressed letter in higher education history with their missive apologising to Liverpool John...
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Trusthouse college
While the newer of Leicester's two universities is known to be expanding exponentially in all directions, it still came as a shock to one Midlands academic to discover that they have gone into the...
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Knight moves
Will Glasgow University's management group have to sit at a round table in future? The university scooped no fewer than three knighthoods in the New Year honours list, with "Sir" now to be added to...
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Pole apart
The Royal Geographic Society may have merged with the Institute of British Geographers, but the new joint body clearly has no intention of submerging its tradition of travel to the far-flung quarters...
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I spy
Stella Rimington, who recently became Edinburgh University's alumna of the year, claimed in her acceptance speech that she had never planned her career, and certainly never thought that she would...
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Candid corpse
Liz Crossan, obituaries editor of the British Medical Journal, has been bemoaning the fact that many obituaries present a less than accurate picture of the late lamented. The BMJ at one point asked...
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Anger over new deal for Durrands
John Tarrant, deputy vice chancellor of the University of East Anglia, will become vice chancellor of Huddersfield University in October, it was announced this week. But controversy is brewing on the...
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Colleges in crisis after TEC fails
The collapse of a training and enterprise council in London has left further and higher education institutions in its area facing budget cuts running into millions of pounds. Emergency talks were to...
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Group's Pounds 250,000 grant brings CAT nearer
The establishment of a credit accumulation and transfer system for London has moved a step nearer with the successful bid for Pounds 250,000 from the Government's Single Regeneration Budget. Matched...
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Staff claim brain damage from lab leak
Staff at De Montfort University are suing their employer alleging negligence because of a chemical leak which they claim has caused them brain and nerve damage. A writ should be served next week by...
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Spot check
(Photograph) - Gary Clough, sculptor in residence at Falmouth School of Art and Design, has been awarded a two-year fellowship worth Pounds 24,000 by the Henry Moore Foundation. He will develop his...
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Seeing through psychic imposters
Friday 13th is turning out to be unlucky for charlatans claiming to have psychic powers. Richard Wiseman, senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, and Robert Morris, Koestler...
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Critical Ward
The West Midlands region of Natfhe is protesting against the CBE for Roger Ward, chief executive of the Colleges Employers Forum, claiming that his influence on further and higher education has been...
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Colleges lose EC cash fight
Halton College in Cheshire has lost a High Court battle to recover more than Pounds 3 million from its county council following a row over European funding. The college claimed that financial...