Governors 'not accountable'
Unaccountable governors and poor financial managers are damaging the cost-effectiveness of higher education's multi-billion pound building activities, a House of Commons Public Accounts Committee...
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Peers attack foreign study policy
Peers have criticised the Department for Education and Employment for failing to encourage more British students to study abroad. They say the DFEE has not thought through its international strategy...
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Fellowships
Royal Academy of Engineering The following have been awarded Anglo-Australian postdoctoral fellowships to work for a year at British universities: Russell Boyce, University of Queensland in Brisbane...
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Venture cash for entrepreneurs
The government and the City joined forces this week to announce three new venture capital funds worth Pounds 240 million. The move, the latest in a stream of measures aimed at boosting...
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Honorary degrees
University of Manchester DMus: John Tomlinson, operatic bass. DSc: Leslie Turnberg, emeritus professor of medicine, former president of the Royal College of Physicians. LLD: Anna Ford, news...
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Grants
University of Birmingham Research grants Dr A. Coulson, Pounds 93,534 from the Economic and Social Research Council (OB approach to client/contractor relationships in British local authorities); Dr N...
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Appointments
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh James Petrie, professor of clinical pharmacology and head of the department of medicine and therapeutics at the University of Aberdeen, has been elected...
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Top brass
(Photograph) - University of Leeds music department hosted the CHAIN international brass week earlier this month. The CHAIN network has brought together more than 20 conservatoires and music...
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Today's tribes
(Photograph) - A young punk displays his, or her, clan markings in Decorated Skin. Fashion theory, magic, cannibals and claims that society can shape the mind, all in Anthropology Books, pages 24-28...
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Fact file
Of the two million students funded by the Further Education Funding Council, only: 1 per cent were on access to higher education courses 4 per cent were on GNVQ courses 17 per cent were on A-level...
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Oxford uses Internet to extend student base
Oxford University is expanding its department for continuing education in an effort to reach students further afield. From January 1999 new courses will include two undergraduate courses in computing...
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London makes bid to attract foreign students
Marketing body Learning in London, established by 16 London universities and colleges, was launched last week with support from business group London First to attract overseas students to the city.
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Ten facts about resource accounting and budgeting
Alan Thomson explains what the government's comprehensive spending review could offer further and higher education 1. It does not generate new money or reduce annual spending. 2. It gives ministries...
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Freshers told to get jabs 'just in case'
Southampton University will tell all 3,000 freshers this autumn to get vaccinated against the killer disease meningitis before they arrive. Manchester University is also "seriously considering"...
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Working in the media
THE HEADINGS on two articles on media studies mined hackneyed veins of antagonism ("Out to Lunch on Journalism" and "A Mickey Mouse Degree", THES, May 15). The confusion between cultural and media...