Gates and Cambridge talk scholarships
Cambridge University is talking to Bill Gates, owner of computer giant Microsoft, about a Pounds 130 million programme that would allow the university to offer graduate scholarships. Mr Gates has...
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Cricklade cleared of dismissal charge
Cricklade College did not victimise lecturer Andrew Murray for his union activity, an employment tribunal has ruled. The Southampton tribunal ruled unanimously that Mr Murray, branch official for...
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Alleged MI6 officer out of Lockerbie briefing
A member of Glasgow University's Lockerbie trial briefing unit has been dropped following allegations that he is a former MI6 officer. Recent press reports have claimed that Andrew Fulton, a visiting...
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Calls for justice
(Photograph) - Student protesters outside the Jakarta home of former Indonesian president Suharto on the second anniversary of his downfall after 32 years in power. Demonstrators demanded his trial...
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Clarification
The Open University of the Netherlands, not the Open University, is involved in discussions about a joint venture with Dutch further education colleges (THES, May 12).
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Paradoxes of grunge
As a philosopher, Harry Lewis (Letters, THES, May 19) will surely be aware of other Paradoxes of Grunge besides the ones he mentions, such as: * Schemes that set out to prove that things are getting...
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FEFC investigates Basildon College
Further education chiefs expressed "extreme concerns" over financial, management and quality problems at Basildon College this week. Further Education Funding Council chief executive David Melville...
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Labour students chair denied re-election
The chairman of the National Organisation of Labour students has been banned from standing for relection because he is no longer a student. The Organisations Sub-Committee, a sub-committee of the...
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MPs urge Brown to rethink don nomination
MPs have called on chancellor Gordon Brown to reconsider his nomination of academic Christopher Allsopp, a fellow of New College, Oxford, to sit on the Bank of England's interest rate-setting...
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Belgrade
Former Yugoslav president and academic Dobrica Cosic, who once proposed partioning Kosovo, has joined judges, academics and intellectuals on the council of Otpor, the Serbian resistance movement....
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Njoro
Six lecturers accused of sexual harassment at Kenya's Egerton University have been sacked after a nine-man committee found them guilty of demanding favours from female students in return for good...
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LSE appeals against discrimination ruling
The London School of Economics has lodged an appeal against an employment tribunal ruling that found it guilty of sexual discrimination. Helen Mercer, a lecturer in business history, accused the...
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Ashcroft puts cash and name into Anglia
Controversial Conservative Party treasurer Michael Ashcroft has confirmed a Pounds 5 million donation to set up a business school at Anglia Polytechnic University. The Ashcroft International Business...
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England gets Bizet with football
Football fans should be encouraged to sing along to classical music during matches to cheer their team on, according to researchers from Sunderland University. A study of more than 1,000 Sunderland...
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LibDems look at tax and spend
The Liberal Democrats may be about to ditch their traditional tax-and-spend higher education policy and face up to "hard-nosed" financial realities. A funding working group, chaired by higher...