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Students occupied the School of African and Oriental Studies in London this week demanding that those unwilling or unable to pay tuition fees not be penalised. The college was closed after students...
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The number of computing and information science students at Scottish higher education institutions has risen by 9 per cent this year compared with 1998-99. This is the biggest rise in any subject...
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John Williams (above) has applied for early retirement as principal of North East Wales Institute. The institute faces an investigation into allegations of mismanagement, but Professor Williams says...
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Glasgow Caledonian University has reached a private settlement with former vice-principal John Phillips, fired for gross misconduct in July. Professor Phillips was vice-principal under former...
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Oxford Brookes University has been forced to back down on charging full-time undergraduate tuition fees of up to Pounds 4,700 for "private" courses. The fee was introduced for courses run principally...
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It would bring a tear to the eye of the most hardened vindaloo aficionado. Scientists have created a chemical compound that is 100 times hotter than the most potent chilli pepper. Fortunately,...
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* Courses in conservation need to involve more work experience and careers advice because of increasing self-employment among graduates, says a report published today. The study, carried out by the...
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Female figures that don't add up
Diana Green, salary:Pounds 101,000 + Janet Finch, salary: Pounds 93,000 + Alaine Sommerville, salary: Pounds 46,000 = Pounds 240,000. John Quelch's salary = Pounds 252,000 Female vice-chancellors are...
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In brief
Reading Jay Pasachoff's review of Carl Sagan: A Life, (Books, THES, January 21) reminded me of Sagan's appearance in Private Eye's Colemanballs. His contribution was: "The speed of light is very fast...
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The Scottish Executive's proposals
* The abolition of tuition fees for all Scottish full-time higher education students in Scotland from autumn 2000, a year earlier than Cubie recommended. * The abolition of tuition fees for all...
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What they say about v-c pay
"Martin Harris has always said that he was sympathetic to our pay demands but that it was out of his hands and a matter for government. But if the vice-chancellors had shown some more restraint over...
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The particle's on
Daniel Kevles describes succintly physics's progress in the 20th century ("The particle's over", THES Millennium Magazine, December 24/31, 1999). In particle physics we are addressing a fundamental...
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Jobs out of context
The graduates-assumed-unemployed figure you quote for the University of East London ("Oxbridge tops table in student success", THES, January 21) was extracted from Higher Education Statistics Agency...
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Faulty grammar, but not dunces
Having just finished marking 76 scripts, I read William Rubinstein's article on history teaching ("A look to the future for Britain's past masters", THES, January 21) with some interest. I teach a...
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Network problems
Trisha Greenhalgh is quite right to point out that enthusiasm for teaching on the worldwide web is running ahead of any systematic knowledge of how students feel about it or whether they are learning...