Scottish mentor scheme scrapped
The Scottish Office Education Department has scrapped its controversial mentor scheme for student teachers less than three months after it was postponed until next year. There has been hostility both...
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Islands on high cost road to success
Setting up a federal University of the Highlands and Islands may require funding of up to Pounds 110 million by the end of the century, according to one of its leading champions. Robin Lingard,...
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Sleep arousals checked
It may be of little comfort to sufferers of insomnia to learn that some kinds of sleeplessness are worse than others. Some restless periods in bed, which scientists call "arousals", tend to cause...
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The trek that filled a planet
Thousands of years ago human beings trekked the 2,000 kilometres across the "ice-free corridor" from Siberia through to the Americas. This last great continental colonisation has now become the...
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Coventry in race for cleaner car engine
Coventry University has teamed up with Northampton-based formula one racing giant Cosworth in a race to build the first fundamentally different car engine for a century. Cosworth, whose high...
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Chip thieves target colleges
Colleges and universities are being targeted by gangs of thieves on the lookout for scarce memory chips worth up to Pounds 800 each, writes Alison Utley. John Heap, head of computing services at...
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Campus plan staggers under damning reports
A flagship plan for a campus in West Belfast has been severely holed below the waterline by two Government-commissioned reports. The University of Ulster is now fighting a rearguard action to keep...
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Students protest at housing
Manchester University has backed down on proposed rent increases in halls of residence this term, following a student rent strike. Students, who voted unanimously in favour of the strike in a packed...
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Welsh work exerts a magnetic attraction
Independent researcher Roger Coghill, from Pontypool, Gwent, is doing his best to broaden understanding of scientific research in the former Eastern bloc. Mr Coghill has brought at his own expense a...
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Staff scupper third semester pilot plan
Liverpool John Moores University is to withdraw its bid for a third semester pilot in a move which will deal a blow to Government plans for their introduction across higher education. The university...
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Students protest at housing
Students at the London School of Economics heckled higher education minister Eric Forth this week as he opened a new student hall at High Holborn. The students were angry that telephone lines and...
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Bidders for research institute pull out
Some of the potential bidders for the Natural Resources Institute have pulled out because of changes made in the run up to privatisation by its owner, the Over-seas Development Administration, writes...
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Catch a shooting star . . .
Huw Richards, in the second part of our series on the Research Assessment Exercise, looks at the transfer market. More than a few academics are in jobs they never expected to fill as a consequence of...
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Green stamp for SMEs
Small and medium-sized businesses throughout Britain are about to get a new source of advice on their environmental problems, thanks to a unique collaboration between the four universities of the...
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Ministers agree to slash space budget
European space ministers last week agreed on an efficiency drive at the European Space Agency to cut the agency's costs by at least 15 per cent over the next five years. The deal owes much to the...