Requests flood in to teaching institute
Less than one month after the Institute for Learning and Teaching started to accept applications for membership, demand is far outstripping even the most optimistic forecasts. About 200 people per...
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German bio plan is 'not a threat'
Fears that the massive state-backed expansion of the biotechnology sector in Germany threatens Britain's leadership in the field in Europe are unfounded, according to a study. Over the past year...
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No more visits from bumbling bishops, lawyer demands
A national panel of experts should replace the ancient visitor as the investigator of student and staff complaints in old universities, legal experts have argued. Nick Saunders, director of Eversheds...
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Students outraged by lack of complaints procedures
Cambridge University is one of the only universities in Britain without formal procedures for hearing student complaints and appeals, the Cambridge students' union said this week. Its president...
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Charging up the engines of development
Northern Ireland's two universities suffer the region's twin disadvantages of political and economic difficulties. But, as Olga Wojtas and Noel McAdam report, their v-cs promise to transform them...
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Leicester row escalates
'Professor Colley, a protagonist in Dr Colman's dispute, has issued him with a formal disciplinary warning on a charge colleagues claim is trumped up' A whistleblower involved in an acrimonious...
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15-minute minister in a land of limbo
Three months ago, Northern Ireland had its first minister for higher and further education - for about 15 minutes. Brid Rodgers, a veteran of John Hume's Social, Democratic and Labour Party, was...
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Adult divide disturbs Natfhe
Lecturers' union Natfhe welcomed the white paper but is concerned about its focus on the needs of employment and employers rather than the needs of academic staff. It criticises the paper for failing...
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David (D. E. N.) Davies
Cool heads were not easy to find last week through the tragedy of the Paddington rail crash - until, that is, the appointment of Sir David Davies to head the inquiry on advanced automatic train...
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Nobel prizes
Gunter Blobel, 63, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at The Rockefeller University, has won the 1999 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine. He was awarded the prize for his discovery...
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Communication is all
Liberal Democrat activists in Scotland had been expected to inundate tomorrow's annual conference at Dunfermline with motions criticising their leaders' failure to abolish tuition fees. The Lib Dem...
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Unlucky for some
Poor British Council. No sooner does it secure the services of someone with a close ear to government, than he joins it. Peter Mandelson's appointment as council vice-chair last month will prove...
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Eyewitness
In Kuwait last week, Ahmad Al-Baghdadi, a university academic and newspaper columnist, was arrested and imprisoned for blasphemy. The four-week court sentence on Professor Al-Baghdadi, a professor of...
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World watch
The Dutch government is to make ¤4 million (Pounds 2.5 million) available to encourage foreign students to study in the Netherlands. Education minister Loek Hermans wants to collaborate with...
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World watch
Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has abolished the 10 per cent discretion on student admissions given to vice-chancellors, who have attacked the move as the usurpation of their powers. Students...