Judges reverse Jeffries's appeal
The case of Leonard Jeffries, the New York professor who was demoted three years ago after a fiercely antisemitic speech, has been reopened by the United States Supreme Court. Last week the justices...
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Plagiarist professor stripped of title
Else Kay Hoffmann, an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen's August Kroh Institute, was stripped of her doctorate last week because she copied other researchers' written works. An...
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Return of the native
Rita Levi Montalcini lives in a top-floor apartment in Rome, five minutes walk from the university and the National Research Council. The grande dame of Italian scientific research is protected from...
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Saudi promises aid to Albania
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Islamic Affairs, Abdullah Bin Abd al-Mushin al-Turki, last week promised extensive aid to education in Albania. During discussions with Albania's education minister, al-...
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Super-ministry links research and industry
A "super-ministry" of education and research has been created by the incoming German conservative-liberal coalition government -- part of a drive for closer co-operation between academic research and...
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Delors keeps his secret
France's best-kept publishing secret of the year -- a book on Jacques Delors in the build-up to the presidential election -- took Paris by surprise last week. It was the work of an academic,...
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Protest sparks Naples rioting
The centre of Naples was the scene of violent clashes between thousands of university and secondary school students, angry unemployed Neapolitans and police last week. What began as a relatively...
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Jewish masters launched
The University of Potsdam has introduced Germany's first master's degree in Jewish studies with special emphasis on Jewish-German history. The course opens just as racism has reared its ugly head...
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Leak rattles university heads
University heads have warned the Irish government that they will be unable to cope with extra student numbers unless they get a lot more resources. They have expressed surprise at leaked projections...
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Nuptial match
The honeymoon period in further education is drawing to a close." Thus Roger Ward, chief executive of the College Employers' Forum last week. What honeymoon? If the past year has been a honeymoon for...
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Dare to come out from behind union barricades
Higher education is under continuing pressure to change, to operate on reduced resources and to justify itself. The stresses on academic staff are well documented and are set to keep growing. It...
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Age-old problems
History is best done by historians, argues Arthur Marwick, who are often blind to the reasons why they write what they do, replies Hayden White. Marx excoriated the philosophers of his day for merely...
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Age-old problems
History is best done by historians, argues Arthur Marwick, who are often blind to the reasons why they write what they do, replies Hayden White. Arthur Marwick has (in the past) chided me and others...
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Recaptured memories of a secret war
The British Local History Room of the Institute of Historical Research is a book-lined oasis of peace and learning in central London. On a wet afternoon earlier this month a group of old-age...
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Still the small voice
Universities are the unsung heroes of the National Health Service. They work with it to provide all undergraduate medical education. They provide most of the research which the NHS will use to treat...