Patently absurd
The wacky patent application competition 1994, held by Chemistry & Industry magazine, yields one UK winner who has proposed a waterproof bird-feeder. Trevor Rowston of Nottingham has designed...
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Spot the Ball
The arrival last autumn of one of academic life's more prominent football enthusiasts, Howard Newby, as vice chancellor of Southampton University, seems to be having an effect on the local soccer...
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Sexuality Slob
Bad news for romantics in the latest newsletter from Rotterdam's Erasmus University. The International Academy of Sex Research has a new president, the university's professor of the pathophysiology...
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Firms feel graduate pinch
A fifth of top companies have reported a serious recruitment shortfall in spite of the rising number of graduates leaving higher education, according to a new survey by the Association of Graduate...
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Glasgow colleges spread street safety message
The stereotype of Glasgow as a city of marauding razor gangs may be outmoded, but its eight city centre universities and colleges have joined forces with the police to ensure that it is safer for...
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Public is prepared to pay for tuition
Plans for making students from well-off families contribute towards the cost of higher education need not necessarily be a vote loser, a MORI poll commissioned by The THES has shown. Fears of...
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Colleges dismiss grim closure forecasts
The Association for Colleges has dismissed gloomy predictions that one in five colleges could close within three years as a "cynical business exercise". Management consultants KPMG said last week...
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Shephard raises standard stakes
The Secretary of State for Education told colleges this week that more young people needed to reach "higher levels of achievement". But on the same day, a survey revealed that severe financial...
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First annual report of the Chief Inspector of Further Education Funding Council
The first annual report from the Further Education Funding Council's chief inspector, which involved the inspection of more than 100 colleges, has concluded that the sector is "dynamic, responsive...
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Inspection squads to descend on NCVQ centres
A fully-fledged inspectorate for monitoring standards in workplace vocational qualifications is to be established next April by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications. The NCVQ is...
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Long road to freedom
A stark picture of university life in Nigeria was painted by Nigerian academic and Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka on his arrival in Paris this week. "The education system is dead," said Mr...
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Cantab goes part-time
You are in mid-career and thought that the chance of doing postgraduate work at university, let alone Oxbridge, had long passed? Think again. Cambridge University has established a new postgraduate...
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Strathclyde University's theatre group
(Photograph) - Ian Skewis and Sarah Grochala of Strathclyde University's theatre group play the title roles in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida at the university's drama centre. It is being...
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Workers carry on regardless of tax rate
High taxes do not discourage people from working, say researchers in the psychology of economics. The comments come a week before the budget -- psychologists are complaining that economists are not...
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MPs pour scorn on scrutiny
MPs have condemned the Government's efficiency scrutiny of public research laboratories as a waste of researchers' time. The probe may also have been "profoundly and unnecessarily damaging to their...