Leeson gamble
As sweltering graduation ceremonies come to their sweaty end across sun-baked Britain, Antithesis hopes to highlight those heart-warming Alumni To Be Proud Of in forthcoming weeks. Case in point...
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Cannon has ball
Is there no limit to the versatility of Manchester Business School director Tom Cannon? Since joining MBS's long list of ex-directors he has impinged on the national consciousness in a number of...
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Runway success
They did things differently in those days no 1,832: Open University vice chancellor John Daniel interviewed for Lifting It Off The Page, a lively volume of OU personal memoirs, recalls the interviews...
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Grant dodging
A Glasgow University research council grants committee member has issued his colleagues with a handy guide on grant applications. In order to avoid the extra work and higher research profile which a...
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Spanish main
No contest for the research assessment panel most likely to cause a diplomatic incident with one of our European partners. Number 44 Spanish (including Portuguese) will doubtless go down a bomb with...
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Not cricket
At last we know who is really to blame for the state of the British economy - Dominic Cork. English cricket's hat-trick hero against the West Indies is exposed by incisive revisionist analysis in the...
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Colleges want new HEQC
Colleges of higher education want a complete restructuring of the Higher Education Quality Council to speed up the establishment of a revised system of quality assurance. The Standing Conference of...
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Nolan's flying start
The Nolan Committee is already being deluged with written submissions to its inquiry on local public spending bodies. Lord Nolan told this week's formal launch of the inquiry - which will cover...
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Manchester masters of salary universe
The average salary earned by last year's graduates of the MBA programme at Manchester Business School was 18 per cent up on the previous year, way ahead even of the much-criticised pay rises for...
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Former orbit, unique constellation
(Photograph) - Chris Edwards returns to London in November to become principal of Imperial College's new medical school, which merges its existing school, St Mary's, with Charing Cross and...
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IP rules blueprint
A new Charity Commission consultation paper on charities and research supports written agreements between charities, researchers and their institutions on their responsibilities for supervision and...
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Back in favour
Chiropractic is more effective than conventional hospital treatment in easing and providing long-term relief for low back pain, according to a three-year trial by researchers in the Medical Research...
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Bar courses limited
Only a few higher education institutions and other centres will be allowed to offer barrister training courses initially, according to informal discussions between the Office of Fair Trading and the...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated at 3pm on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is...
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Research panel chairs announced
Chairs of the research assessment exercise panels will be as follows: Clinical laboratory sciences: Prof I. V. Allen (Queen's Belfast) Community-based clinical subjects: Prof M. Marmot (University...