Star Turn: Oliver Double
Mandy Garner enjoys a game of bingo in a Kent lecture theatre as a teaser to learning about working-men's club comedy Stand-up comedians have arrived. Just a few years ago, they were deeply uncool;...
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Copyright licencers say fees are too low
Universities should pay six times more for their copyright licences than they do, according to the Copyright Licensing Authority. In response to accusations of overcharging from the Committee of Vice...
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QAA told to rethink its award rankings
The Quality Assurance Agency has been forced to take its blueprint for a national qualifications framework back to the drawing board after overwhelming protests. A chorus of disapproval has persuaded...
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The not so odd couple
Poor career guidance and isolation are issues for many women working in science, technology and engineering. Mixed-sex mentoring may be a solution, as Sharon Ann Holgate finds out. "It was a...
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Agony aunt
Howard G. Allen Emeritus professor of structural engineering University of Southampton A : Students want to perform well but worry about what is expected of them. Most welcome useful advice. But for...
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How to... get a seminar group to sizzle
WHAT : Tutors often find it an uphill struggle to get students to open up in group debate about their studies and ideas WHY : Kate Exley argues that getting students to help set the ground rules can...
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Healthy marriage is on the rocks
Teaching and research are the perfect pair, not foes, Stephen Rowland insists. The argument for a divorce between teaching and research comes in various forms, but its logic boils down to this: some...
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Jigsaw jackpot
An unemployed mathematician today picked up a £1 million prize for completing the world’s most complex jigsaw puzzle. Alex Selby, from Cambridge, completed the 209-piece jigsaw...
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University rector in court
Aberdeen University rector and television personality Clarissa Dickson Wright today appeared in court after pleading guilty to a speeding offence. Ms Dickson Wright, a former barrister, appeared at...
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From today's UK papers 25 October
FINANCIAL TIMES Just six years after e-mail and the internet emerged to become household worlds, the University of California at Los Angeles has launched an ongoing survey on the medium's impact on...
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Engineering for Manufacturing Programme: next generation manufacturing
Deadline: 17/11/2000
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Transitions after Fifty Programme
Deadline: 15/12/2000
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Management Accounting and Knowledge Management
Deadline: 31/01/2001
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Drug-busted students denied aid
Almost 7,000 of the 9 million US students who applied for federal aid for this fall are ineligible for some or all of their financial aid because of convictions for drug-related offences, according...
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Euro rectors end Serb isolation
Marija Bogdanovic, acting rector of the University of Belgrade, is due to attend this weeks' CRE/Association of European Rectors conference in Cracow, Poland. She is likely to be confirmed...