French students set to strike
France's students have warned of trouble for the next government if it fails to implement university reforms. Pouria Amirshahi, re-elected president of the largest union, the pro-socialist UNEF-ID...
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Don's Diary
Monday Land in Punta Arenas, the southernmost city of Chile. This city represents the penultimate leg of my long journey to the Falklands. Having already had some meetings with British officials in...
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Digital Darwin: not apeing books
EVOLUTION. By Mark Ridley. Blackwell Science +44 1865 206179 Pounds 29.50 inc VAT. - ISBN 0 86542 757 7. Macintosh/Windows CD The most revolutionary book of the 19th century was not Don Juan or even...
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NC education first
The Apple-Acorn joint venture Xemplar expects to be first to equip a school with network computers. The Internet-friendly alternatives to PCs will go to Hinchingbrooke school in Cambridgeshire.
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Defused
Students considering a military career can test their skills in bomb-disposal and parachuting simulations on the Army recruitment web site, www.army.moc.uk.
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Humanities launch
Oxford University's Centre for Humanities Computing has been reborn as the Humanities Computing Unit, with new, larger premises and an expanded staff of 12.
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The decisions they face
THES reporters examine the higher and further education issues facing the new ministers May, 14: the official state opening of Parliament.The Queen's speech will set the legislative agenda for the...
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Horse play
(Photograph) - Horse play: riders celebrate the opening of a bridle path on land made available by the University of Hertfordshire. The path will help complete the 'H25' - the horse world's M25 -...
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Physics boost
Your welcome note about the Institute of Physics' initiative to rethink the 16-19 physics curriculum (THES, 2 May) is very optimistic about the cost. We shall need all of Pounds 1 million to have any...
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Fused
The art and design department at University of Wales College, Newport has opened its Fusion centre, offering short courses on the Internet, web page design and e-publishing.
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Weston super highway
Weston College is claiming a further education first with its cybercafe, set up with help of IBM and the Department for Education and Employment. The techno teahouse will offer training to local...
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Dear Secretary of State...
As David Blunkett arrives in Whitehall, what issues should be on top in his higher education in-tray? Those in the frontline offer advice From: Martin Harris Re:Expansion with flair You take up...
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Brown's budget bind
Loans sale may fund school vow The new Labour government will have to plunder money from the sale of student debt to pay for school and nursery pledges. Chancellor Gordon Brown's promise to stick...
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Radicals rule the roost, OK
Two former 1960s radicals have been given responsibility for further and higher education in the new Labour government. The seven-strong Education and Employment team, headed by Secretary of State...
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Election Antithesis
Think of it as a small but worthwhile "new blood" scheme for British universities: all of a sudden UEA needs a dean of biology, Essex needs a head of public relations and Bath is short of a professor...