Howells attacks exclusion zone
HIGHER education has a crucial role to play in lifelong learning but more must be done to widen participation and improve business links, minister Kim Howells has said. Dr Howells said that the...
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Delayed reaction
Epitomising the saying that it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive was lifelong learning minister Kim Howells, who this week failed to make his scheduled speech to the Association of...
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Disarming quiet
It must surely be of concern to Prince Charles that his institute of Architecture, purveyor of neo-classical design, has turned its back on one of its own. Anthony-Noel Kelly, the lecturer in...
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A flaky premise
There will have been some wry chuckling this week among the scientific community over the re-runs of the sci-fi series V from 1984. An incoming force of apparently friendly aliens persuades...
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Dance class
Prone to introspection about the state and prospects of their discipline, economic historians showed a rather more cheerful side to their collective character as they held their annual conference...
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Millennium blues
The world is set to end with neither a bang nor a whimper, but an academic conference. The approach of the millennium has spawned apocalyptic studies programmes, books and multi-disciplinary courses...
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Percentage games
Fresh evidence that the American sporting-academic complex never misses a fundraising trick. College sports fans desperate to find something to add to the mindboggling array of souvenirs on offer (...
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Family values
Alumnus to be proud of No: 168 has been described as the 23rd member of the Cabinet, or at least that is one of the more printable descriptions. Alistair Campbell, Tony Blair's combined rottweiler...
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Wilson funding blast
Scottish education minister Brian Wilson has accused academics of "schizophrenia" in their approach to government funding for higher education. Mr Wilson, addressing a Committee of Scottish Higher...
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Legal cost fears over complaints
INCREASED stress on student contracts will land universities with big legal bills, warn the authors of a law guide for institutions. Swansea Institute's acting principal David Warner, who compiled...
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Judge freezes next Net cash
Already delayed by funding problems, plans for a new high-speed network in the United States have been further complicated by a lawsuit that has frozen millions of dollars collected for the project....
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Pain is second nature to female of the species
Sociologists gathered in Edinburgh this week. Alison Utley reports. A SURVEY of patients at a GP's surgery in London revealed that both men and women believed women coped better with pain because it...
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Cambridge builds web-controlled campus TV
Students at Cambridge University are testing a networked multimedia project that eventually should deliver user-controllable live and recorded TV from around the world to PCs across city. The...
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Italian graduate database extends web to the world
Employers worldwide can take their pick of 30,000 recent graduates of 12 Italian universities by connecting to the AlmaLaurea website at the University of Bologna. Now the site's developers want to...
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Liverpool spin-off wins top accolade at multimedia awards
A multimedia spin-off firm from Liverpool John Moores University has won one of the United Kingdom's top design awards, Tim Greenhalgh writes. Amaze Limited received the "published training" honour...