An end to injustice
Peter Knight, once the enfant terrible of higher education, shows distinct signs of joining the establishment (THES, July 19). I trust Brian Fender will give his item scant attention and despatch it...
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Benefit fraudsters worried, not greedy
Disillusionment with the welfare state rather than selfishness is pushing people into fiddling their benefits, according to University of Luton researchers. Interviews with 35 self-confessed benefit...
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Australians share sandwich with Europe
Australian students will undertake work-integrated-learning with industry and business organisations in Europe, while European students will do the same in Australia through a co-operative programme...
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Whistling in the dark
Staff must be free to speak out in the public interest, says Dermot Feenan. Whistleblowing is risky. Disclosure about perceived wrongdoing at work can harm both the whistleblower and employer....
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For all creatures great and small
The paraphernalia of "rights" is distinctly human; animals - by definition non-human - can have no rights. Roger Scruton is necessarily correct on this tautologous claim. However, this does not lead...
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Fables from a Russian lair
In the last of our series on favourite films, Keith Griffiths savours the richness of Yuri Norstein's Tale of Tales. The Russian filmmaker Yuri Norstein has made only a handful of short animated...
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Maggie may not: Margaret Thatcher and John Major lookalikes
(Photograph) - Maggie may not: Margaret Thatcher and John Major lookalikes picketed Saturday's degree ceremony at Brunel University, Uxbridge, in protest at the awarding of an honorary degree to Lady...
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Autumn of discontent
Autumn strikes look set to hit old and new universities for the first time as unions join forces in protest at "paltry" pay offers and higher education funding cuts. Tom Wilson, assistant general...
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FEFC ombudsman
The Further Education Funding Council has appointed an independent ombudsman to deal with complaints. John Bevan, a former director of education for the Inner London Education Authority and former...
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Alcoholic proof
While they are unable to match the spectacular, if unplanned, firework display staged by the European Space Agency a few weeks ago, the good folk at Cern have always prided themselves on having...
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Sir Ron Dearing
Sir Ron Dearing yesterday officially launched a national survey which will inform his inquiry. A questionnaire, which will be circulated to more than 1,500 organisations including all further and...
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Genetic disease research faces tall order
Identifying patients with Marfan's syndrome is the aim of research under way at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. This genetic disease kills at least 30 to 40 young adults in Britain each...
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Auditors called in
Auditors have been called into a further education college to investigate accounting errors of up to Pounds 1 million. Exeter College spotted the errors two months ago and principal John Capey called...
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Oh baby
(Photograph) - Middlesex University first-class graduate Kate Carrick exhibits a baby baked out of dough at the university's fine art show.
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European funding probed
The Government has launched an investigation into an English higher education institution's claims for European funding. Secrecy surrounds the inquiry by the Department for Education and Employment's...