Radio leads the way in digital evolution
The other Friday I spent five and a half hours sitting in the chamber of the House of Commons listening to the debate on Teresa Gorman's Devolution for England bill. I will not go into detail as to...
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Equality, but not for poor
TWO independent reports in the past year have cast grave doubts on the fairness of the French higher education system. Such accusations strike at the very heart of the French constitution. Equality...
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Honorary degrees
University of Wales, Aberystwyth. LLD: Edward Heath, Conservative member of parliament for Old Bexley and Sidcup, former prime minister (1970-74), winner of the Sydney to Hobart Ocean Race (1969) and...
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Ground-breaking course on disability
A ground-breaking course on disability has been devised at the University of Ulster, writes Noel McAdam. The 12-week part-time course was designed by and will be delivered by disabled people....
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: Of first degree business studies graduates who went into work: * 34 per cent went into management and administrative work *...
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Students test benefits case
THE GOVERNMENT is coming under increasing pressure to stop students who take a break from their courses being left destitute. Students can claim neither maintenance grants and loans nor social...
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Fellowships
Leeds College of Music. Fellowships of the college have been awarded to Pandit Sharda Sahai, tabla solo artist and accompanist in North Indian Classical Music. Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great...
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Why people like Saddam couldn't make more of themselves
(Photograph) - Why people like Saddam couldn't make more of themselves. As the UK commission into human cloning prepares to publish its report next week, one cloning advocate has been branded mad,...
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Food Standards Agency keen on campus labs
University researchers stand to gain as the new Food Standards Agency establishes its independence. The agency, due to come into operation at the end of 1999, is expected to have a Pounds 25 million...
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Less money for science
The science budget next year will be almost Pounds 30 million lower in real terms than this year as the government keeps to Conservative spending levels. The budget for 1998-99 is Pounds 1,338...
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Baroness Blackstone "optimistic" for further money for univerisities
Baroness Blackstone, higher education minister, told the House of Commons science and technology select committee this week that she was "optimistic" that the comprehensive spending review would...
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Staff fight expansion
GOVERNMENT ambitions for an extra 500,000 students in higher education by the millennium came under threat from lecturers yesterday. David Triesman, general secretary of the Association of University...
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Scottish minister allays enrolment fears
THE government has rejected the claimed threat to Scottish universities caused by its tuition fee plans. Brian Wilson, Scottish Office minister for education and industry, told the Commons that fears...
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Queen's and Ulster face possible research cuts
Queen's University, Belfast and the University of Ulster have been warned of potential further cuts in government cash for research. Tony Worthington, the province's education minister, said: "They...
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National Audit Office eyes research councils
The National Audit Office is considering whether to investigate the management of grants by the government's research councils. Each year the NAO does 50 "value for money" studies of different areas...