Six-term year will spell end of clearing
University admissions procedures could be radically restructured within four years, spelling the end of the annual clearing scramble. The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals is to reopen...
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Book prices on the up
The price of the average academic book has gone up by 6.1 per cent to Pounds 44.18 in 1999-2000 compared with Pounds 41.62 in 1998-99, according to the Library and Information Statistics Unit at...
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Talented youth greeted with 'golden hellos'
Engineering companies trying to attract talented young people and counter the effects of skills shortages are offering significant benefits including "golden hellos", according to a survey by the...
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Will Chelsea follow Bill to Oxford?
(Photograph) - Chelsea Clinton (pictured) is deciding whether to follow in her father's footsteps and study at Oxford University next year. President Clinton spent two years at Oxford as a Rhodes...
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Edinburgh reunion is a political party
Edinburgh University is revealing its stranglehold on the political scene north of the border with a Scottish Parliament forum on Sunday, part of its Alumni 2000 celebrations. Edinburgh graduates...
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Wolverhampton buys mass spectrometer
Wolverhampton University's School of Health Sciences will buy and maintain a mass spectrometer with an Pounds 83,533 grant it has received from the Wellcome Trust. The machine can determine the...
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Crash analysis is success for scheme
A teaching company scheme that has been developing leading software for analysing the results from car crashes has been nominated for an award for innovation. The project, run jointly by the...
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Teaching research awards announced
The nine inter-university teams to win Pounds 7.5 million for research projects in the second phase of a Pounds 12.5 million programme to improve teaching and learning were announced today. They...
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Adult education pioneer steps down
Bill Conboy, who has overseen the resurrection of Newbattle Abbey College, Scotland's sole adult residential college, retired yesterday saying there was no longer any question of whether Newbattle...
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Lab water works going swimmingly well
Swimmers wishing to improve their performance need to get out of the water and into the laboratory, says a mechanical engineer at Staffordshire University. Laura Plant has devised a revolutionary...
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Cubie committee member Eleanor Currie
In The THES of August 25 we wrongly implied that Cubie committee member Eleanor Currie was speaking on behalf of the committee in proposing an individual savings account for learning. Mrs Currie,...
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THES on the web
Get inside the British Library with The THES and search 20,000 journals and 70,000 conference reports online. THES subscribers now have free use of the BL's Inside service, which normally costs...
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Academics face increasing divisions and isolation
Are academics in the 21st century part of a unified profession? Not according to a group of researchers from four universities who will warn an audience in Cardiff later this month that the climate...
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Scots to see high levels of appeals
There is continuing uncertainty over the numbers of young Scots gaining university places as schools predict a massive rise in examination result appeals. Although the Scottish Qualifications...
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Smaller firms lack HE interest
Post-1992 universities face an uphill struggle to build links with small and medium-sized firms, according to a new report. The report, published by the Coalition of Modern Universities, reveals the...