Hot desking
Excitement mounts at the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals as it prepares to move into new headquarters, a few doors down from its rambling rooms in Bloomsbury's Tavistock Square. Some...
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Entrance exam
Prima donnas have a tendency to arrive fashionably late. But occasionally the ploy can misfire and spoil the entrance altogether. Take Oxford's eagerly awaited commission of inquiry, preparing to...
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Left alone
Given the Government's propensity for blaming almost anything that goes wrong on the last Labour government, led by reckless ultra-leftist James Callaghan, there is something quite touching about the...
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Scientists for Labour
Scientists for Labour, a pressure group devoted to raising the profile of science issues in the party, discussed the Government's role in food safety at a one-day conference this week called "Feeding...
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Four working lives made misery
In response to a request for individuals' examples of bullying in universities and colleges, 23 people rang The THES. All preferred to remain anonymous. Here are four of their stories. Jennifer A has...
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Mechanical nose
SCIENTISTS at Rome's Tor Vergata University have developed a machine "nose" that analyses human body odours. The idea is that a person's health affects what they smell like. Thus the analyses of the...
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Bain drain
London Business School principal George Bain is stepping down - apparently for fear that he may start to spoil his own good work. "I am a firm believer that more institutions are ruined by people at...
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Without a dent
Alumna to be proud of No 93 is Baroness Denton, the junior Northern Ireland minister under fire for allegedly flouting the province's fair employment rules and condoning sectarianism in her private...
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Charity claims 'fraud'
The Public Accounts Committee's report on financial control of vocational training has skimmed the surface of a "multi-billion pound vocational education and training fraud", claims education human...
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DFEE called to account
National Vocational Qualifications are in trouble. Phil Baty reports on accusations of massive fraud. "Incorrect payments" by the Department for Education and Employment to providers of national...
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Snow-capped
(Photograph) - Snow-capped: Claire Crofts (left), a postgraduate sculptor at Gray's School of Art, and lecturer Sarah McKenzie-Smith, try on specialist kit donated by the marines of 45 Commando Group...
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Blair lines up food chief
PHILIP JAMES is set to become to food safety issues what Sir Ron Dearing is to higher education. Dr James, director of the Rowett Institute, an independent research body devoted to nutrition, has...
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Gaelic gets cash boost
THE GOVERNMENT is to fund Scotland's sole Gaelic college, Sabhal Mor Ostaig on Skye, on the same basis as other further education colleges in order to support the University of the Highlands and...
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Old universities retain allure
THREE QUARTERS of young university applicants would prefer to attend a traditional institution and most want to study away from home, according to recent research. A survey by the university...
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RAE achievers reap rewards
DUNDEE and St Andrews universities have emerged as the big winners in next year's Scottish funding allocations because of their success in the research assessment exercise. But the majority of the...