Back on the shelf
The threat of prosecution spurred a university to fight for its library rights. Peter Knight tells the tale. Twelve months ago the police confiscated a book of photos by the gay photographer Robert...
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Why I... am returning to university teaching despite two blockbuster novels
James Hawes, Author and lecturer at University College, Swansea I wrote my first bestseller, A White Merc with Fins, while I was teaching. It came out in January 1996, sold well and created a buzz....
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Drive Marx from the temple
Aidan Foster-Carter argues against divisions among the social sciences I am a social scientist: out and proud. That this is a noble and a necessary calling I hold to be self-evident. At every level,...
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Labour attacked for 'betrayals'
Students have been betrayed by broken government promises over tuition fees, shadow education secretary David Willetts said in Wednesday's education debate. Mr Willetts attacked the Labour Party's U-...
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Special funds to tackle FE weakness
College funding chiefs have recommended special funds to encourage colleges to tackle "persistent weaknesses in student achievement", but have rejected calls for a more direct link between the...
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Drop-outs 'have piled on to the wrong courses'
Colleges are "piling" students into the wrong programmes, leading to persistent drop-out problems, the Further Education Development Agency has warned. A survey of 9,000 students by FEDA found that...
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Warm winner
(Photograph) - Warm winner: the University of Teesside's new Pounds 8 million learning resource centre (above) is one of the winners of this year's Royal Institute of British Architects regional...
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Scots reveal future fears
The Association of University Teachers Scotland has warned Scottish education minister Helen Liddell that higher education could suffer under a Scottish parliament because of "misleading claims"...
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TECs claim good cash record
Training and Enterprise Council leaders have hit back at college chiefs who condemned them for "wasting public money". The TEC national council returned fire on the Association of Colleges this week...
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Technical erosion reaches crisis
The erosion of technical staff from universities should be halted immediately, according to the Royal Society. The number of university-funded technicians and scientific support staff fell by a third...
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Unesco warms to Eritrea
Paris For a few fleeting moments this week the higher education world put funding and management issues aside to consider the plight of a small newly independent nation and its embattled university...
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Laurie Taylor
"Sometimes when student notes get left behind I read them and wonder if we've been in the same lecture room", - Professor P. Taylor, international communications expert - THES October 2 INDIVIDUAL...
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Dublin
University College Dublin has been accused by the Employment Equality Agency of "generally" discriminating against women academics in promotions, a charge the university denies. In the past two years...
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Moscow
Russia's new prime minister Yevgeniy Primakov last week informed President Boris Yeltsin that student grants arrears would be paid shortly. Some 240 million roubles (Pounds 9 million) had been...
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Fernando H. Cardoso
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