Swathe of lecturer redundancies hits Wales
Two Welsh colleges are to make the biggest set of compulsory redundancies in British higher education this year. Up to 20 lecturers and the same number of technical and support staff could lose their...
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Dundee wins grant
Dundee University's department of biochemistry, which recently held a topping out ceremony for its Pounds 12 million Wellcome Trust Building, has won a Pounds 4.5 million grant from the Medical...
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Morse code
The 1996 award for subliminally reinforcing confidence in the examination system goes to the central schedulers at ITV. On the night before this year's A-level results were released, with hopeful...
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Welsh wizardry grows
Three new research centres at the University of Wales, Bangor, have been recognised as centres of expertise by the Welsh Development Agency, part of a network of such centres springing up across...
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Knights of a not-so-rounded table
In the fourth of our open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education, Colin Flint (left) argues that the 'Almighty' MrFixit Sir Ron needs a more radical committee for post-...
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Why pay for tuition when the French do not?
Tom Husband's article (THES, August 16) once again raises the question of students' having to pay tuition fees as if it were self-evident that this is the only way that higher education can now be...
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On their knees
(Photograph) - On their knees: police order students demanding reunification of North and South Korea to kneel in submission after a nine-day confrontation ended violently when police stormed the...
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A-level madness
The blow finally fell on the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals press office last week. No, nothing to do with downsizing or rationalisation. Their real fear had always been a slow news...
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Human tumours grown in the lab
A major obstacle to researching radiation-induced cancers has been cracked by scientists. They have found a way of inducing such cancers in human cells growing in a petri dish. Until now scientists...
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Horror story from assessment visit
I agree with Professor Elton (THES letters, August 16) that students today and tomorrow deserve an explanation of the apparent paradox that 99 per cent of departments assessed for teaching quality...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. 10.00am. I am in the teaching committee. Oh dear, how dreary - but at least I'll get free coffee and biscuits. Five years ago the teaching committee was exactly what it said; a group of...
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A question of collar
Ceri Peach digests the ethnic data of the 1991 census and concludes that while Indian immigrants are following the white-collar route established by Jewish settlers, people of Caribbean origin are...
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Searching for a colourful lingua franca
An art school head is tickled pink with the results of an international study he has conducted into the everyday use of colour names in popular phrases. Colours used in phrases such as "green with...
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Access students warned off elite
Access course students are often discouraged by their own tutors from aiming for a high-ranking university place, a national survey has found. Those hoping to study law at an old university...
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Wizard idea
Nice to see that the science comedy show Modern Problems in Science was among the features offered at Fringe Sunday last week in Edinburgh. But we are a bit nonplussed about both the originality and...