Cosmic movement
A new computer school, the first of ten planned for greater London, has been set up by Indian computer group Cosmic Software and three British entrepreneurs. The "E-horizons" school, which...
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Well woven
Helen Whitehead, a cyberspace writer in residence at Nottingham Trent University, has won funding for a project aimed at bringing together East Midlands textile workers and textile museum staff to...
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Life on Earth
Plymouth University has won a Pounds 10,000 research and development grant from the Wellcome Trust's SciArt competition for a project that will examine Earthlings' intelligence. Researchers from the...
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Wireless backing
Global network solutions company Nortel Networks has financed a new A$4 million (Pounds 1.5 million) technology centre investigating wireless internet applications based at the University of...
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Trent seeks graduates with ambitions
Entrepreneurs are being offered the chance to translate their ideas into a successful enterprise thanks to a programme launched by Nottingham Trent University. The university is seeking 25 East...
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Caught out
(Photograph) - Caught out: Anthony Horne, a first-year student on the University of Abertay Dundee's pioneering BA in computer arts, is captured on the projection at a futuristic exhibition of...
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Quicker A-level results would aid admissions
Peter Lampl's Sutton Trust (unlike sundry government ministers) knows its onions when it comes to discrimination in university admissions. It has identified bias in favour of privately educated...
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Watch out: assessment power struggle is about
Historians are worried about the slowly expanding powers of the Quality Assurance Agency. Anthony Fletcher explains why. The History at the Universities Defence Group has sent vice-chancellors,...
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Pensioners must guard fund from employer raids
When the Universities Superannuation Scheme replaced the Federated Superannuation Scheme for Universities it was one of the best schemes around. But time moves on. Memory of the difficulties caused...
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Sectarianism divides
As the government's spending review has progressed, Tom Wilson of lecturers' union Natfhe has been spearheading a campaign for the redistribution of funding from old universities to new. This is...
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Hindu students
Parita Mukta is under the impression that the literature of the National Hindu Students Forum (not federation as she states) is anti-secular and gender biased, based on reference to our "Beware"...
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Treasury holds the key to door
I was glad to see, after all the lurid headlines over the Laura Spence case, that The THES (June 2) carried some robust good sense and proportion, including Geraint Davies's measured Why I... (...
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Treasury holds the key to door
The core of the admissions problem is that families can improve their children's chances by paying for them to attend private schools, with smaller classes, better-paid staff and more lavish...
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Treasury holds the key to door
Half a century ago, the Labour Party committed itself to abolishing private schools. The debate over Oxbridge selection procedures confirms the wisdom of that policy and exposes as mere rhetoric the...
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Treasury holds the key to door
The truth behind A-level statistics is less than reassuring for the state sector: 44 per cent of pupils who gain three A levels come from the 7 per cent who attend independent schools, whereas 56 per...