Blunkett's post-school unity
The Labour Party is drawing up plans for unifying education for the over-16s, with employers and training providers playing significant roles. David Blunkett, the shadow education secretary, wants...
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Odd Bods
Where can you buy a Relativity Mouse Mat, a pair of sterling silver earring replicas of Oxford's Radcliffe Camera, and a "bundle" of J. R. R. Tolkien goodies, all at the push of a button? Only in a...
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Rotund affair
Nowadays, every county council worth its salt wants a university, not least because it is likely to mean an extra Pounds 50 million or so to the local coffers. But there was a time when university...
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Rough trade
Proof that bashing Essex University and sociology is not the exclusive preserve of the Cro-Magnon right. During last week's Commons debate on London University medical school mergers, Labour MP Brian...
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Eek!
The tabloids will doubtless be excited to hear that the 50th birthday of Lord Plant, political theorist, Labour peer and chair of the party commission on electoral reform, was marked by the delivery...
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Earnings from industry reach all-time high
Industry put a record Pounds 131 million into the 53 "old" universities for research last year, according to figures from the Universities' Statistical Record. Cambridge and science-based Imperial...
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THES Internet
The THES Internet Service, which includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper as well as all our job advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper, is available...
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Scots get go-ahead to hoard surpluses
Scottish university finance directors have welcomed a Government green light for building up institutional surpluses. Institutions have been wary of building up surpluses in case their apparent...
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Sex and the single species
Spurred into action by the demands of politicians and the ordinary homo sapiens on the street, biologists held a meeting last week to sort out the question of what exactly constitutes a species. They...
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Natural Selection
Dedicated microbiology students at Sunderland University are brewing 36 gallons a week of their own beer, Evolution Ale, which they are selling to a city pub through their own marketing company.
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Scots go-it-alone
The Association of University Teachers Scotland at its annual conference in Perth called for universities and the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council to be consulted in a Scottish Trades Union...
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Heart to heart
Screening the population for all risk factors for heart disease is not a cost-effective way of reducing disease, according to researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In a...
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Acas talks
Lecturers' union Natfhe will today debate joining talks at Acas aimed at solving the long-running further education contracts dispute. The move follows fresh proposals from Colleges Employers Forum...
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Weight watchers
Trade unions in the old universities launched a campaign this week to overturn a freeze on the 1993 London weighting allowance imposed by vice chancellors. The unions say that backdating the payments...
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Croydon coup
Croydon College is set formally to become a college of the University of Sussex with the signing of a partnership agreement next month. Sussex will validate Croyden's higher education degrees and...