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Tue 01 Jan 2007Teacher's PetAn insider's guide to education:A new era begins at UCC later this week when Michael Murphy takes over from Gerry Wrixon in the president's office. The university will hope that the retirement of Wrixon and the impending departure of his chief critic Prof Des Clarke will end the civil war on the campus. So far, the signs are encouraging. The clubby Murphy has somehow managed to steer a course between the rival camps; all sides appear determined to give him a fair wind.There is one piece of unresolved business - the report commissioned by the UCC governing authority on foot of complaints made by Clarke and others about the Wrixon era. The report, conducted by John Malone, a former secretary general at the Department of Agriculture, will go to the new governing body on February 19th.