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Iwrite to associate the Transport and General Workers Union with the battle against cash cuts in higher education (THES, June 28). Attention may have centred on mortar boards but the T&G is...
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Science and the state
The controversial Cambridge University scientist Terence Kealey, who claims science would be better off without Government funding, lost a debate on the issue this week. Dr Kealey and Unilever's Tony...
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Jitters over cash delay forecasts
Last Friday was the deadline for English universities to file financial forecasts with the funding council. Not all met the deadline. With a cash crisis looming, THES reporters look at the sums and...
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College warder
Wanted: Someone experienced in counselling undesirable members of the community institutionalised by years confined to aged, fortress-like buildings. No wonder then that Anthony Butler, chief careers...
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Greens and genes are key
European research should focus on genetics development, creating a sustainable environment and examining social change, according to the European Science Foundation. The recommendations form part of...
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Pioneer state struggles to keep access door ajar
California's 30-year-old policy of offering a college education to any state resident who could benefit appears on the verge of falling apart. There is mounting concern among experts that a tidal...
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Unbecoming foreign trip up
India's University Grants Committee is planning to set up entry rules for foreign universities planning to provide higher education to the immense and potentially lucrative Indian market (page seven...
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Degrees in a class of their own
Mass higher education calls for a rethink of the honours classifications, argues Peter Wright A decade or so ago critics of British education sometimes described the system as a "pyramid of failure...
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Medics lose option of extra year
Medical schools have failed to find alternative funding for undergraduates who want to study for an extra year. The option, open only to the brightest students during their degrees, has been dashed...
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Government lines up learning for jobless
The Government is set to pilot a radical "learning on benefit" scheme next year which could encourage unemployed people to study while looking for a job. The scheme would be a substantial softening...
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Closure threatens marine centre
A national marine biological station has warned that it faces closure because of budget cuts from the funding councils. John Davenport, director of the University Marine Biological Station Millport...
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From Plato to Pluto
Golden Labrador Alf this week gained his Dundee University philosophy department attendance certificate, conferred by university principal Ian Graham-Bryce. Alf has been coming to philosophy classes...
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Getting to the giving stage
A unique programme piloted by the Red Cross is enabling refugees to train to counsel other asylum seekers. Alan Thomson reports. The British Red Cross is pioneering a unique higher education project...
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Trust is key to Chechen peace
Boris Yeltsin may have boosted his chances of success in the second round of Russia's presidential elections next month by securing a Chechen peace deal, but the road to a lasting solution to the...
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Gulf war in quality assurance
The furore created by the publication of the first report from the joint planning group for quality assurance in higher education has exposed the very considerable gulf that exists between the...