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(Photograph) - Rose Ingram, of Wolverhampton University and winner of the National Pottery and Ceramics Festival student prize, displays her latest work, Water Vessels.
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk Corporation of London Robert Blair Fellowship in Applied Science...
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Unions envy 4.8% rise
Vice-chancellors got an inflation-busting average pay rise of 4.8 per cent in 1997-98. The best-paid vice-chancellor was the dean of the London Business School - a position held in turn by George...
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Plea to double professors' pay
University professors' salaries should be doubled, the House of Commons science and technology committee was told this week. Sir Keith Peters, head of Cambridge University medical school, told the...
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NUS claims grant rise falls short
Student fees, grants and loans will increase by 2.5 per cent - in line with inflation - in the next academic year. Maximum fees will rise from Pounds 1,000 to Pounds 1,025 and loans, which will...
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Snakes and ladders
(Photograph) - Students on an art and creative crafts course at Manchester College of Art and Technology have worked with the Booth drop-in centre for homeless people to create an exhibition called '...
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ILT sets its entry rules
Academics who wish to be members of the Institute of Learning and Teaching will have to demonstrate 24 "teaching outcomes". A consultation report out next week from the institute planning group...
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Chichester goes for university status
The Privy Council has given degree-awarding powers to Chichester Institute of Higher Education. The institute now intends to apply to be renamed University College Chichester. Meanwhile, Queen...
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Lib Dems seek betterlodgings for students
Liberal Democrat peers are to call on the government to take a lead in ensuring minimum health and safety standards for student accommodation. Liberal Democrat peer Lord Tope (below) will open a...
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Life sciences pursue more time and money
A working group has been set up to press for four-year PhDs and increased stipends in the life sciences. The group, established by the UK Life Sciences Committee, will draw up proposals and collate...
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Hunt for hidden danger in working with mice
Computer mouse users are being assessed for health problems in a two-year study by Loughborough and Surrey universities. Researchers are to question 5,000 people on their use of non-keyboard devices...
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Scottish Tories offer to pay college fees
The Scottish Conservative Party will today unveil its scheme to pay tuition fees for Scottish students in 2001, at an estimated cost of Pounds 34 million, rising to Pounds 38 million in 2002. Party...
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Scotland adopts loan scheme for low-paid
The Scottish Office has followed English ministers in announcing loans of up to Pounds 500 for part-time higher education students on low incomes. The loans will be available from autumn 2000 to help...
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Foresight incentive for education and industry
The Department of Trade and Industry has announced Pounds 10 million for university-industry research collaborations under the government's Foresight programme. Also this week, Scottish business and...
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Structural biologists to gain four new centres
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council announced the creation of four structural biology centres this week. It will plough Pounds 4 million into the centres, which will act as...