Netting a fine cache
In the mid-1600s, two determined Quaker women left their husbands and children behind and set out for Rome. Their extra-ordinary mission was to convert the Pope. Instead they found themselves...
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Crick's science is just not 'serious'
Fraser Watts, lecturer in science and religion at Cambridge University, this week accused two leading biologists, Francis Crick and Richard Dawkins, of using "ideologically-motivated reductionist...
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Colleges in fight for Pounds 14 million
Two colleges began a case at the High Court in London this week to recover Pounds 14 million of European funding from Birmingham City Council. The Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative...
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Poetic justice
(Photograph) - Poetic justice: Christopher Hogg picked up this slim volume of T. S. Eliot's Prufrock and Other Observations for Pounds 1.50 in a Bournemouth bookshop. It turned out to be an excellent...
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Contract negotiations reopen with caution
Further education employers are set to reopen national negotiations on contracts, but will limit the talks to staff who have refused to transfer to private contracts. The College Employers Forum has...
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Portsmouth v-c called to account
Neil Merritt, vice chancellor of Portsmouth University, confessed to staff this week that he had been guilty of substantial "errors of judgement" in the way he handled his travel expenses. Mr Merritt...
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Canada to end direct funding
A social security discussion paper issued in October by the Canadian federal government signals a big change of direction in the funding of post-secondary education. In it, the government says it...
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Dream on
(Photograph) - Dream on: Caroline Pegg in If We Shadows A Midsummer Night's Dream for the 21st century a new production from Insomniac Productions, which opens on November 21 at the Dancehouse...
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A bridge over muddled waters
A new way of reducing the gap between science and the public may have been aired for the first time in London last week. The UK National Consensus Conference on Plant Biotechnology (as reported in...
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Sex, drugs and student hall
Joseph Evans argues that more moral control would make university residence a home from home. If charity begins at home, then we should be thinking more about what sort of home we are offering young...
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Rustling up an Ivy League
When the officers of our Students Union came to talk to me last week I was struck, not for the first time, by the clarity of their vision and by the significance of their questions. Not for them that...
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Squabbles break out on training
Training and Enterprise Council chiefs have challenged further education college leaders to provide them with hard evidence of TECs running courses in direct competition with further education...
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Yellow cards in action
University departments that fail any aspect of new quality assessment gradings will face funding council sanctions unless they can show an improvement within a year. This week the Higher Education...
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Quality chief condemns drain on resources
A Higher Education Quality Council director has condemned the sector's so-called quality industry as a drain on vital resources which "is itself threatening quality." John Bull, vice chancellor of...
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Miller's house
(Photograph) - Miller's house: Queen's Building, at the University of East Anglia, has just won a Royal Institute of British Architects regional award. The building combines schools of occupational...