State scientists adjust results
One in three scientists working in government or recently privatised labs has been asked to tailor research findings, according to a trade union survey. Some 30 per cent of respondents said they had...
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It's good to talk, says new guide
For more students to get top jobs, universities' and employers' representatives must better articulate what they want from each other. That is the recommendation of a guide to labour-market...
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East Midlands colleges in crisis
College funding chiefs may not be able to meet their legal duty to ensure "adequate and sufficient" provision in the East Midlands as the region's colleges suffer financial crises. The Further...
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New book on college scandals
The vast majority of the scandals that have so badly damaged the college sector were caused by government policy and a flawed funding methodology, a new book will claim. "Most of the reasons why...
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Leicester recants
Leicester University has withdrawn a "trumped-up" formal disciplinary warning against whistleblower Andrew Colman, following The THES's reports that colleagues think he is being victimised. Dr Colman...
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Queen tells Essex to reconvene tribunal
The Queen has ordered Essex University to reconvene a student appeal tribunal because "justice should be seen to be done". Acting on behalf of the Queen as the university's visitor, Lord Slynn of...
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Further education's role in the 'Blair project'
Further education colleges are on their way to meeting Tony Blair's goal of doubling their intake of overseas students by 2005, the British Council figures suggest. Overseas student numbers in the...
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UK 'responsive and alive'
Tony Blair (right) is backing a four-pronged plan to raise the UK's share of the overseas higher education market from 17 per cent to 25 per cent and to double the number of overseas students in...
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Don's diary
Saturday Finish exam marking and fly to Boston. Met by Bill Gardner, New Hampshire's secretary of state. It is snowing heavily. Stop for pizza at Mamma Luci's. The primary is three days away. Bill's...
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Saving a princely sum?
Rumours that Prince William is heading north to study the history of art are "well-founded on speculation", according to Edinburgh University's press office, which stresses that all applications are...
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Making an impact
Ron Thomson, a Glasgow University expert in mechanical engineering's ballistics and impact group, has been campaigning for improved campus road safety for years. Now the inevitable has happened - he...
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The right moment
Conservatives have cancelled a long-awaited announcement on higher education policy because it would have been "premature". How, one wonders, can an announcement scheduled weeks ago for next Tuesday...
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Lavly way to spend time
Student activists at Warwick University have been celebrating a high turnout to their three-and-a- half-hour annual general meeting. But the unexpected enthusiasm appeared due less to the topics...
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Lynne Brindley
Twenty-five years ago, studying for a diploma in library and information studies at University College London, Lynne Brindley won the Sir John MacAlister award for best student on the course. Now she...
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On the move
Bob Nelson, controller, BBC Training and Development, has taken over as chair of the board of directors at the national training organisation for broadcast, film, video and multimedia, Skillset. He...