Research funding system attacked
A British Medical Association meeting this week heard that the funding council's research assessment exercise is "unscientific, misleading" and "pernicious". Gareth Williams, professor of medicine at...
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Quality:how it all fits together
In its response to the Dearing and Garrick reports, the government set the Quality Assurance Agency the task of piecing together a new system for checking standards in higher education. In March, the...
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Warden with a history
FEW recent head of institution appointments have occasioned more surprise than that of Ben Pimlott, professor of contemporary history and politics at Birkbeck College, London, as warden of Goldsmiths...
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Bible classes are barred
BLACK church leaders have condemned the Further Education Funding Council over moves to break up a national community partnership with Bilston Community College, which provides education for "...
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Ageing crisis threat to area studies
AREA studies expertise in British universities faces a demographic crisis in spite of consistent warnings to government in recent years. A survey by the Coordinating Council for Area Studies...
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Media studies 'no soft option'
MORE than two-thirds of A-level and BTEC media studies students surveyed by the British Film Institute said that they chose the subject because it was relevant to life. Over 80 per cent rejected...
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Police may foster hooliganism
An expert on English football hooliganism has called for a big change in how football fans are treated at the World Cup, which starts next week in France. Research by Clifford Stott, lecturer in...
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Club cards for loyal fans
Football fans could end up with loyalty cards like those issued to supermarket customers if an idea suggested by researchers at Middlesex University is taken up. Paul Baines of the university's...
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Exercised by gender
Girls as young as nine see exercising as a way of keeping fit and controlling weight, while boys of the same age are more likely to associate exercise with fun. Joint research by academics at Luton,...
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Laboratories opened
New research laboratories that cost Pounds 250,000 to build and kit out have been opened at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. The laboratories will carry out research...
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SA quotas to favour black medics
Medical schools at South African universities have been told that from next year their state funding will reflect the racial mix of their first-year student intake. Speaking on behalf of health...
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Chairs
Gresham College Gerald Wakefield, leading expert in international telecoms law and regulation and electronic technology law, professor of law; Roger Penrose, Rouse Ball professor of mathematics,...
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Grants
University of Birmingham European funds Dr G. Boons, Pounds 71,269 from the Commission (synthetic saccharides to study the immunological properties of type III group B streptoccus oligosaccharides);...
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Students hold officials hostage in fees row
NIGER students in Benin have taken their embassy officials and diplomats hostage as a means of pressurising the government to disburse scholarships and bursaries. Aggrieved students enrolled at the...
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A new forum for Europe
Academics are one of the groups in society that is most integrated into Europe. Student and faculty exchange programmes such as Socrates or Tempus, collaborative research programmes, training and...