V-cs eye single quality road
Vice chancellors are being canvassed by the Committee of Vice and Chancellors and Principals for their views on a single quality agency, as proposed by the chairman of the CVCP in a letter to the...
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Popper's friends mount last ditch attempt to retain library in Britain
A final bid to keep Karl Popper's library in the country is being made by a group of friends and admirers headed by one of his former students at the London School of Economics. Last weekend, Sotheby...
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Germ of an idea
It has not taken long for campus wags at Swansea to react to German lecturer Jim Hawes selling his first novel for sums that a privatised industry chief might regard with respect. The joke going the...
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The X files
VE day isn't the only big anniversary this year - 1995 also marks the centenary of the invention of the X-ray and proof that even the greatest scientists get it wrong sometimes. Lord Kelvin's...
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Sing for supper
Delegates at the Educational Institute of Scotland's College Lecturers' Association were bemused when in the middle of one debate, president Elinor McKenzie remarked that it reminded her of the...
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Poll position
Congratulations to political scientist Ivor Crewe for moving one step closer to the top of academia's own greasy pole with his appointment as acting vice chancellor of the University of Essex. Maybe...
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Extra special
Bill Styles, council chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, reveals in the latest British Medical Association News Review that while he was a student at St Mary's Hospital Medical...
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Currying favour
Librarians at St Andrews University have come up with a hot scheme. Students donating their old textbooks to the library are presented with a voucher which can be put towards the cost of a meal at...
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CVCP deters FE colleges' higher hopes
Further education institutions should concentrate on complementing higher education provision rather than developing freestanding higher education capacity of their own, say vice chancellors. The...
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The Union chief predicts recruitment crisis . . . while OU takes on 33 new tech staff
The Open University is taking on 33 new staff in one of its largest recruitment drives since it was set up just over 25 years ago. The jobs are aimed at helping the university harness new...
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Humber on board
The University of Humberside has replaced Nottingham Trent University in the project to establish a University of Lincolnshire. The plan is to admit the first 500 students in autumn 1996....
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Scorpion trial
Further work on a controversial research programme aimed at developing a genetically engineered chemical insecticide is being planned for this summer by the Natural Environment Research Council. The...
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Holocaust degree
The first postgraduate degree in holocaust studies will be run next academic year by the department of Hebrew and Jewish studies at University College, London. Students will explore the holocaust in...
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New York, New York
Lord Briggs, former vice chancellor of Sussex University and historian of the BBC, is one of 13 media academics and practitioners elected to residential fellowships for the academic year 1995/96 by...
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Going west
Ron Johnston, who is to retire as vice chancellor of Essex University at the end of the academic year, has been appointed professor of geography at Bristol University. Ivor Crewe, professor of...