Assessment shadow over research
The future of development research funding will depend on the outcome of the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise. Introduced to help new universities in building up their research provision when the...
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Sponsored FE chair will be first
The first commercially sponsored chair in the further education sector is soon to be announced at Bishop Burton College in East Yorkshire. Roy Brown, newly appointed research director at the college...
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Training framework audit ordered
The Government has commissioned an audit of the whole training framework in an effort to streamline the structure of vocational qualifications and to restore confidence in job-related courses. The...
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Ain't nobody like the body
When you gather round the piano this Christmas, simultaneously educate yourself in biochemistry with some ditties from the The Biochemists' Songbook. What better way of making use of that dead time...
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On speck
Darren Speck, now a student at the University of Warwick, was at Mid Warwickshire College in Leamington Spa when he won the BTEC engineering student of the year award for his mountain bike design (...
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Two into one
The Education Committee and the Employment Committee of the House of Commons are to be abolished from March, and replaced with a single committee on Education and Employment, the Government has...
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Cash converter
Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine this week announced a Pounds 10 million programme aimed at boosting links between the world of education and the information superhighway. He said the money...
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Guildhall slims to survive
London Guildhall University is to look for fresh savings of around Pounds 2 million in the next three years as it aims to secure its finances. "Targeted severances" are likely to be a significant...
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Internet News
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements, appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication. The service...
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Missing person
The person pictured in our story on the Audetel TV system was a member of staff of the Independent Television Commission, not Pat Rabbitt of the University of Manchester (THES, October ). The ITC...
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Top among equals
Tom Blundell, chief executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, has won this year's Opportunity 2000 award for "top level commitment" to equal opportunities in the public...
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This way out?
(Photograph) - This way out? The London School of Economics' decision-making process over whether to bid for the soon-to-be-vacant Bart's Hospital site will take an important step forward next week...
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Shephard rounds on CBI
Top business leaders were lambasted by Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, this week for failing to give a clear signal about what employers want from the higher...
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Further work for colleges
Further education colleges may be asked to provide new kinds of training courses under Labour's "New Deal" for the young unemployed. Out-of-work youngsters who opt to join full-time education to...
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Area Boy
(Photograph) - Area Boy: Leeds University is sponsoring a new play by Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, Nobel prizewinner and Leeds graduate, which is premiered at the West Yorkshire Playhouse until...