Kate Shindle
Aspiring actress Kate Shindle, who was Miss America 1998, is working as a waitress while looking for work on stage, screen and television after graduating from Northwestern University in June.
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Middlesex blazes associate trail
Middlesex University believes it has created a blueprint for the kind of associate degree ministers have in mind, writes Tony Tysome. The programme's key element is that a quarter of the work is at...
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Peter Bush
Peter Bush was reinstated as vice-principal of Glasgow Caledonian University in August following a successful appeal against dismissal. A report in The THES of December 3 may have been misleading.
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Decline in student volunteers
Volunteer charities face a recruitment crisis as cash-strapped students spend more time working to make ends meet. Organisations that rely heavily on students raising funds to take part in voluntary...
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Helping in Tanzania
Hugh Roberts found three months helping to build school classrooms in Tanzania complemented perfectly his degree in third world and development studies at Coventry University. As well as the...
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Social scientists pool ideas to come to aid of government
Social scientists could find it easier to get ideas direct to government through a network being set up by the Economic and Social Research Council. The initiative, which will cost the ESRC Pounds 2....
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Fee hunters bewail power of Data Protection Act
Universities will lose millions in unpaid tuition fees when new laws remove their most effective weapon in the battle to force students to pay, finance chiefs have warned. Experts are predicting...
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Noh way
(Photograph) - Noh way: the Noh studio at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been redeveloped at a cost of nearly Pounds 500,000, courtesy of businessman and performer Haruhisa Handa, vice-...
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Uproar as SOAS takes Iran cash
Academics worldwide have attacked plans by the School of Oriental and African Studies to accept a donation from the Iranian government. They say it raises questions about good governance and that...
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Double trouble
Jonathan Osmond (Letters, THES, December 3) has misremembered Lucky Jim. The joke about desirable regions of London appears not once but twice in the novel. Just as there is a passage concluding "No...
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rome's Third University and Italy's equal opportunities commission are to offer prizes for graduation theses on human rights issues as part of a joint endeavour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of...
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Study set to probe effect of tuition fees on enrolments
A new study will examine the effects of tuition fees on higher education, including the possibility that some universities could close while others become increasingly specialised. The National...
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Cubie stands firm on infighting
The chairman of the independent inquiry into Scottish student finance, Andrew Cubie, will resist his report being hijacked by political infighting. His inquiry was set up because of the rift between...
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Further education colleges move research up the agenda
Further education colleges are stepping up the quantity and quality of research they do in response to the government's lifelong learning agenda, writes Alan Thomson. Well over 100 colleges, at least...
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Embattled minister hints at fees review
Northern Ireland's first minister for further and higher education has taken up office amid controversy over the share-out of executive posts. Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionists have accused the...