Chair for comics
The country's first chair of comedy is being proposed for Lancaster University to accompany a national archive devoted to British humour. Lancaster cultural history professor Jeffrey Richards has...
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Merger losses
Governors of the Winchester School of Art will meet today to consider a merger with Southampton University amid rumours of heavy job losses. The college Natfhe branch said that provided promises were...
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CVCP `out of touch'
Sir Claus Moser, chairman of the National Commission on Education, this week called for a new public body to involve academics in strategic decisions about universities. The Commitee of Vice...
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Alumni ambassadors go aroving in schools
Staffordshire University is running weekend training schools next term for volunteer graduates who want to become recruitment agents visiting schools around the country. The idea comes from the...
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Fraud squad for scientists
The Royal College of Physicians is looking at the practicalities of setting up a fraud squad for British science. An interdisciplinary group is to put ideas into a consultative paper to go out in...
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Leakey launches pocket wind trap
A new research discipline, flatology, is opening up after the invention of a device that measures the volume and contents of flatulence. The gadget will help in the study of everything from irritable...
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Presented in style
(Photograph) - Presented in style: Beauty therapy student Gemma James from Oxford College gets her face painted at LASER's garden party for further education colleges held in Bedford Square, London...
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Name the cuts, MP tells Scots principals
A Labour MP has challenged Scottish higher education institutions to spell out the impact of funding cuts. Members of the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals, at its annual forum at the...
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College growth probed by FEFC
A college in Cheshire which has achieved growth of more than 266 per cent over the past 11 months is being investigated by the Further Education Funding Council as a result of its prolific...
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Gillian Shephard ponders future status
New criteria by which colleges of higher education could be granted the title of university college have been put to the Secretary of State for Education by the Standing Conference of Principals. The...
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GNVQs welcomed
Universities and industry have signalled their eagerness to recruit students holding new "vocational A levels". An increasing number of higher education institutions are writing General National...
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THES Internet Service
The THES Internet Service this week carries the Research Opportunities listings in full. The service also includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated...
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Madmen and monster-makers
From Faust to Strangelove
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Natural-born charlatans and their pursuit offortune by fakery
Science and the Secrets of Nature
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Newton's alchemist
Gehennical Fire