Northwest unis launch representative body
Universities in the Northwest of England have launched an association to ensure that higher education is represented on the regional agenda. Keith Burnley recently took up the post of executive...
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Alumni raise Pounds 7 million for development
Nottingham University alumni have paid Pounds 7 million in personal gifts to help fund bursaries, scholarships, and prizes for less well-off students. Some of the money, which includes individual...
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Business helps Glasgow fund scholarships
Glasgow University is linking up with leading businesses in a scholarship scheme. The Century 21 Club has already attracted a dozen companies, including the Clydesdale Bank, Abbey National Financial...
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Location announced for national centre
The national subject centre in English is to be hosted by Royal Holloway College, the Council for College and University English and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College...
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NUS to open a web of opportunity for unions
The National Union of Students redefined itself further as a consumer rights organisation this week by outlining plans for new electronic services. Every further and higher education student in the...
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MP calls Wellcome board self-serving
Warrington MP Helen Southworth has challenged the Wellcome Trust to justify its advice to government to site the Synchrotron project at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordhsire rather than...
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Marconi gives Pounds 40m to Cambridge
Cambridge University has accepted its largest ever corporate gift - a Pounds 40 million commitment by communications giant Marconi plc to set up a communications research centre. The Marconi...
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Courses offered in football management
Football managers will soon be relegating their sheepskin coats to the bottom of the cupboard in favour of academic gowns, if plans to kick off a diploma in soccer management at Greenwich University...
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Career boost engineered through partnership
Aeronautical engineering students at Glasgow, Loughborough and Southampton universities are having their career prospects boosted through a partnership with a virtual university. BAE Systems, the...
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Talk is cheap on internet chatline
A German student has developed a computer program for cheap telephoning via the internet. Henrik Pfluger, 22, first hit on the idea of speaking into the computer rather than having to type messages...
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Site's just the business
An exclusive online recruitment service geared towards the needs of MBAs and world-class firms has been launched with the backing of top business schools. Global Workplace.com, a spin-off from the...
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High energy
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has launched a Pounds 600,000 partnership between higher education and industry to research energy technologies and get them...
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Platform soul
Terence Karran, acting director of the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside's centre for access and lifelong learning, is to chair a pan-European distance learning association. The Platform...
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Social skills
Postgraduate social science students can brush up their methodological skills online thanks to a collaboration between the Economic and Social Research Council and the Data Archive. TRaMSS (Training...
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History of the reel gets virtual
The history of the 20th century, as seen through cinema newsreel, is documented in a CD-Rom and website launched yesterday by the British Universities Film and Video Council. Historians and students...