Cash for business ties
Ten universities in Yorkshire and Humberside have clinched a deal worth more than Pounds 10 million as part of a joint bid for European Union business support. Combined with money raised locally,...
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It's good to win
NAPIER University has won a Pounds 48,000 BT University Development Award for its work towards quantifying students' part-time work into accredited units of degree courses. Work such as part-time bar...
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TV-struck president aims for political stage
Harriet Swain looks at the candidates vying to be president at next week's NUS conference Things have happened around Douglas Trainer. His election as president of the National Union of Students in...
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Quality plans are up AUT's street
PLANS for a new quality assurance system have won a cautious welcome from university heads and lecturers. They have signalled their support for replacing the teaching quality assessment regime with a...
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V-cs may steer students away from UK
Vice-chancellors are considering redirecting some European students away from Britain to universities in other countries that also teach in English. The move comes in response to government concerns...
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Sadness slows athletes down
THES reporters on the British Psychological Society's annual conference held in Brighton this week DEPRESSION can trigger a complex psychological mindset that leads to poor sports performance,...
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Lectures
Goldsmiths, University of London The following inaugural lectures have been arranged: April 28, Nick de Ville, professor of visual arts "Ways of seeing and the pleasures of the visual"; May 5, Martin...
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Select schools lead to best jobs
Schooling is a predictor of student choice of subject, as well as of university, a new study has found. Destined for Success? Educational biographies of academically able pupils looked at the...
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History man in jail
Akinjide Oshuntokun, head of the history department at the University of Lagos, has been held without charge for eight weeks by Nigeria's State Security Service. Professor Oshuntokun was intercepted...
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Scottish student leaders defeat grants demand
The leadership of the National Union of Students Scotland has fought off an attack on its student support campaign. An amendment by Glasgow Caledonian University, which accused the union of betraying...
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Brown's starter for Pounds 20 million
THES reporters spell out what the budget means for universities and colleges THE CHALLENGE FUND AND TAX CHANGES The budget announced: A Pounds 50 million venture capital fund to help universities...
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Boxing clever
(Photograph) - Simon Roberts, a photojournalism student at The Sheffield College, has won the 1998 Ian Parry Award for photography for his 12-picture study of a local boxer, 15-year-old Daniel...
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Physicists get teeth into jaws
Kam Patel reports on speakers at the Institute of Physics congress in Brighton this week A PHYSICS-based technique is being used by Loughborough University researchers to provide insights into the...
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Battle for cash hots up
Latest submissions as the RAE consultation closed last week AUT AND NATFHE In an ideal world the unions would like to see the research assessment exercise scrapped. The Association of University...
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Hair-do
(Photograph) - Teresa Heady of the Textile Conservation Centreworks on a yak's hair earring from Assam in India, part of a collection at Kew Gardens. The centre joins Southampton University this...