External examiners given OK
The external examiner system should continue, according to a survey by the Open University's Validation Services of the 50 institutions it accredits. The survey, Using External Examiners, found that...
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Blunkett disapproval
(Photograph) - Blunkett disapproval: David Blunkett, right, shadow education secretary, and Bryan Davies, Labour's further and higher education spokesman, were joined by student and lecturers' union...
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Sudden staff redundancy queried
A governor of Portsmouth University has asked the Higher Education Funding Council to investigate the college because of concern over the sudden redundancy of the deputy vice chancellor, whom staff...
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East End job plan launched
Unemployed graduates in London's East End will soon be able to enrol on an innovative job-seeking scheme run by the local Training and Enterprise Council. Gradplan is being offered by London East TEC...
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Fulbright killers get 18 years
Three black South Africans who stabbed, stoned and bludgeoned American exchange student Amy Biehl to death in a Cape Town shanty town last year have each been sentenced to 18 years in jail for what...
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Trojan horse mired in A-level mud
Vocational and academic. You might have thought we would have learned by now. But no. With the millennium fast approaching, these remain poles apart, like chalk and cheese. Worse still, there are few...
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Remember, remember November
The current debate about the university year, provoked by the move towards modular courses and semester-based teaching, has focused on an early September start. But why is nobody taking seriously the...
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Past Masters
David Weatherall pays tribute to the man who asked him to eat asparagus in the name of research, Cyril Clarke When I obtained my medical degree from Liverpool University in 1956 I was, as cell...
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First and last
(Photograph) - First and last: the launch of Inter-Arc, an electronic media network that forms part of the Arc Atlantique project promoting tourism, maritime communications and the environment, took...
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Debt, doubt and diversity
Jim Murphy says the commission has identified the right problems but wants to talk about the answers. It was on a fanfare of publicity that the Commission for Social Justice report was launched....
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Grants
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, BELFAST Research grants Richard Breen, Pounds 183,280 from the Economic and Social Research Council (social mobility, political preferences, attitudes and behaviour in Northern...
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Events
VOLTAIRE'S CONTEMPORARIES The Eldon Gallery at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford is exhibiting 18th-century drawings in the lifetime of Voltaire. The exhibition, which includes work by Watteau, J-B Greuze...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF KEELE Gary Kelly, professor of English, University of Alberta, and Edward Larrissy, senior lecturer in English at Keele, have received professorships. HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY Philip...
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Fellowships
University of Bradford John Gardiner, head of the department of electrical and electronic engineering. University of Glamorgan Simon Weston, Falklands veteran, holder of Man of the Decade 1989; Hywel...
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Awards
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS T. Brooke Benjamin, Sedleian professor of natural philosophy, University of Oxford, has been named honorary member of ASME. He will receive the award at the...