V-cs confront Shephard on quality
Vice chancellors are so unhappy with the Higher Education Funding Council's proposals for a new quality assurance system that they have written to the council and to the Secretary of State for...
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Scottish rugby star Craig Joiner
(Photograph) - Bar prop: Scottish rugby star Craig Joiner, a second-year chemical engineering student at Heriot-Watt University, takes part in a blind beer-tasting session as part of an Edinburgh...
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Computer science defended
On top of Darrel Ince's proposal (MM, March 10) to disband computer science departments came news of the poor showing by those departments in HEFCE quality assessments. Readers leapt to the subject's...
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Computer science defended
On top of Darrel Ince's proposal (MM, March 10) to disband computer science departments came news of the poor showing by those departments in HEFCE quality assessments. Readers leapt to the subject's...
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Computer science defended
On top of Darrel Ince's proposal (MM, March 10) to disband computer science departments came news of the poor showing by those departments in HEFCE quality assessments. Readers leapt to the subject's...
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Computer science defended
On top of Darrel Ince's proposal (MM, March 10) to disband computer science departments came news of the poor showing by those departments in HEFCE quality assessments. Readers leapt to the subject's...
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Computer science defended
On top of Darrel Ince's proposal (MM, March 10) to disband computer science departments came news of the poor showing by those departments in HEFCE quality assessments. Readers leapt to the subject's...
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HEFCE reviews funding model
The funding model under which public money is allocated to English universities for teaching is to be reviewed. The Higher Education Funding Council for England has advertised for tenders to...
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Hunt for language gene
Genetic research teams around the world are hunting for the "gene for language" after scientists have found powerful evidence for an instinct for grasping language - and an inherited disorder that...
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Credit card principal axed
South Bristol College governors have sacked their principal for financial misconduct after he used the corporate credit card for personal purchases. David Smetherham, 51-year-old chief executive of...
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Auto industry launches star wars for cars
Three research councils are to give millions of pounds to a 15-year national programme to boost the United Kingdom's standing as a world leader in high-technology road vehicle manufacture. The...
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Lecturers' pay lags behind schoolteachers'
Salaries for university academics have risen by less than half the rate for school teachers since 1979. While the average increase in earnings was 37 per cent for all employees between April 1979 and...
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North Wales en route to Normal merger
Bangor University and the north Wales town's Normal College will merge on March 1, 1996. The new institution will cater for 6,700 students, and the changes will mean that two higher education...
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Government rules on primates
Primates caught in the wild are to be banned for use in research, the Government has announced. And regulations on the use of captive-bred primates are to be tightened. But anti-vivisection groups...
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Industry chiefs call for greater say in Scotland
Industrialists want to play a greater part in Scotland's quality assessment system, according to the latest evaluation of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's scheme. Researchers at Moray...