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Water great idea: Cajsa Flensburg's revolutionary take on the ladies' loo has won the Royal College of Art's annual design award. Inspired by her own misery as a woman using public lavatories, her...
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Doubts raised over merger
Governors of London Guildhall University have voiced doubts over its proposed merger with the University of North London. Minutes of a board meeting held in mid-June, seen by The THES , express...
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Surprised Cambridge seeks fall in EU interest
Cambridge University has suffered a severe drop in the number of European Union students applying for postgraduate places. Applications from EU students fell 14 per cent in 1999-2000 but Cambridge...
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Union demands fee promise
Lecturers' union Natfhe is demanding a government guarantee on the level of university tuition charges amid fears that increasing them could mean differential fees by the back door. The union, due to...
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Endow to free up research, says expert
Cash endowments should replace grants for basic research in universities, according to a leading social policy expert. Julian Le Grand, professor of social policy at the London School of Economics,...
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Unofficial spending adds to Luton woe
Luton University has launched an investigation into unauthorised and excessive spending in its school of healthcare and social studies. Minutes of a meeting of Luton's directorate show that the...
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Vox pop
Is it good for higher education as a whole that Cambridge and Oxford are so much wealthier than other universities? Tom Wilson , head of the universities' department at lecturers' union Natfhe "It...
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Analysis: Which university has the deepest pockets?
There are many measures of a university's academic stature, but what about its financial strength? In the first of a two-part series examining the wealth of UK institutions, Alison Goddard...
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Teacher numbers still low
The government is celebrating growing numbers of trainee teachers - but the statistics mask the fact that numbers training in some shortage subjects are still pitifully low. Applications for the...
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Uproar at censorship of 'anti-English' paper
Forty-five leading Welsh and Celtic studies academics have condemned a decision by the Welsh Assembly's higher education inquiry committee to "censor" a paper submitted to it by a Bangor University...
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Whistleblowers: Tribunal backs Surrey
Higher education's first known tribunal case under the law to protect whistleblowers has been rejected. The THES reported in July last year that when lecturer Geoffrey Darnton complained to Surrey...
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In the news: Beverley Malone
Beverley Malone, the new general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, has fought her way to the top of her profession - and she intends to keep on fighting for nurses. She is not only a former...
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Place your ILT bets
Sir Kenneth Calman bet on a horse that should run and run at York racecourse last week when, in his after-dinner speech as chairman for the Institute for Learning and Teaching's annual conference, he...
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Imperial power drain
Staff are sweltering and stumbling along darkened corridors at Imperial College, London, following an edict to switch off non-vital equipment. "Please shut down any unnecessary power-consuming...
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On the wrong track
From a Scottish university press office, unnamed to spare its blushes: "To those of you who were recently faxed a copy of our press release on the conference on Friday, please note that we are...