Science minister idea wins support
Huw Richards takes a hard look at what the parties are offering in further and higher education Candidates from all parties except the Conservatives are heavily in favour of appointing a dedicated...
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Labour bets on a science lottery
AN incoming Labour government would look to the National Lottery as a means of funding innovative science and technology projects after the turn of the century. The party was expected to announce...
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Lib Dems promise Pounds 700m
Huw Richards takes a hard look at what the parties are offering in further and higher education The Liberal Democrats promised further and higher education an extra Pounds 700 million per year by the...
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Rich seam at interface
The Happy coupling of further and higher education could give birth to a funding council merger The Dearing committee has officially committed itself to addressing the relationship be-tween higher...
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Association of Scottish Colleges
The Happy coupling of further and higher education could give birth to a funding council merger The Association of Scottish Colleges calculates that more than a quarter of Scotland's higher education...
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Merger risks a drift in FE college missions
A headlong rush to merge the higher and further education sectors could undermine colleges' educational distinctiveness and distort the nation's skills profile, it has been claimed. The Association...
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Two-plus-two gets buzzing
Two-plus-two is the buzz phrase in the world where further and higher education meet. Early in his inquiry into the future of higher education, Sir Ron Dearing sent a team over to Chicago to explore...
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Derby pay boycott
THE University of Derby faced a virtual siege this week as the Association of University Teachers asked its members to support an academic boycott by fellow union Natfhe. Natfhe initiated its boycott...
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Support for research on meat virus
THE Pennington inquiry, set up after 18 people died in central Scotland in one of the world's worst outbreaks of E.coli poisoning, has given its support for more research into the virulent organism....
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One-force theory 'coming soon'
PHYSICIST, Stephen Hawking, this week gave a "fifty-fifty" chance of researchers finding, within the next 20 years, a single theory to explain the relationship between all the fundamental forces of...
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Union shuns retirement idea
LECTURERS' union Natfhe is pressing ahead with its High Court challenge to Government plans to change early retirement rules. The union was expected to seek leave to apply for judicial review of the...
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Molecular databases go global
SCIENTISTS in Asia and Eastern Europe are plugging into the molecular biology databases of the leading industrial nations, a rich source of knowledge that could be applied in medicine and farming....
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Girl power
London's Queen Mary and Westfield College will set up online discussions and videoconferences for hundreds of schoolgirls aged 14 to 15, in an effort to encourage girls to take computing courses in...
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Box clever
A student at Kings College London has won a prize worth Pounds 3,000 for inventing a system which brings email to people in their homes using their television sets. Alan Sutton devised software that...
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Sarajevo story
Teesside Tertiary College and multimedia company YITM are inviting schools and colleges across Europe to relive the crucial events of July 1914 over a period of 24 hours. Beginning at 10 am on 30...