Nip into Tesco for a byte on the Internet
Tesco supermarket in Guildford has embraced the lifelong learning revolution and is to set up a "Unicafe" - a distance-learning Internet cafe for part-time students- with the University of Surrey...
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Harvard lager label row
A ROW is brewing over the use of the name "Harvard" on a beer produced in New England, writes Jon Marcus in Boston. Lowell Brewing Co. Inc. says it has merely revived a lager produced from 1898 until...
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Face-to-face
(Photograph) - Indonesian students clashed with police in Jakarta this week when they called for the resignation of President B. J. Habibie, who replaced President Suharto, following weeks of anti-...
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Physicists seek long-term relationship
The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council last week published a long-term technology plan for closer relations with industry. It also cites technical advances, such as a successor to the...
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Blair gives extra cash to recruit nurses
The government has promised an extra Pounds 60 million next year to fund 6,000 new training places for nurses and help address a staffing crisis in the National Health Service. The money, announced...
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Latecomers put paid to tuition fees scare
More people have applied to higher education after getting their A-level results than last year, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Despite tuition fees, 9,069 new...
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Belt and shades for computer bods
Prototype cuddly toys that "recognise" people and wearable computers in the form of belts and sunglasses are among products that could find their way on to the market soon, according to the...
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Drugs research guru claims unfair job loss
Controversial drugs researcher Martin Plant aims to take Edinburgh's Queen Margaret College to an industrial tribunal, claiming unfair dismissal. A preliminary hearing to determine whether a case...
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Preparing students for work 'takes money'
Universities need long-term money if they are to prepare students for work, according to industry and higher education leaders. While short-term projects, such as Enterprise in Higher Education, can...
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A-level stay-ons mark colleges' success
The best further education colleges retain 86 per cent of their students at A level and the rest need to catch up, the Further Education Funding Council warned. At level three (A-level standard), the...
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Brussels looks for lambs with BSE
Sheep could be infected with BSE, according to an expert advising the government on mad cow disease. The warning from Jeffrey Almond, professor of microbiology at Reading University, has led to...
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NUS protest stops fee instalment charge
All universities and colleges considering charging students who pay fees in instalments have backtracked. The University of East London and University College Chester, the last institutions to...
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Advertise Woodhead post, Blunkett told
Liberal Democrat education spokesman Don Foster has written to the education secretary David Blunkett urging him not to reappoint Ofsted head Chris Woodhead (above) without proper competition. In the...
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Malaysia crisis may cost UK dear
British universities are predicting multi-million pound drops in fee income as Malaysia's currency crisis takes its toll on overseas student recruitment. International offices in institutions across...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES ... John Griffith argued that universities have been tardy in setting right abuses of power - bullying, corruption, nepotism and cheating. The answer, he suggests, is an...