Museums cash review
"In Brief" (THES, July 10) may have misled readers in stating that the Museums and Galleries Commission wants local education authorities to fund museums for services to schools and colleges. This is...
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Campaigning v-cs push for a new deal
Welcome spending spree. Universities, science and further education say what more money will mean THE government's decision to direct new funds to higher education following its comprehensive...
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Real money to close Britain's skills gap
Welcome spending spree. Universities, science and further education say what more money will mean FEW working in post-compulsory education can begrudge further education a decent share of the...
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Happy landing at Britain's science base
Welcome spending spree. Universities, science and further education say what more money will mean NOW we know. The government's Pounds 1 billion for the science base, adding the research and funding...
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A twist in Estonia's history
IN AN age of global markets, it is well to recall that the university is the greatest "export package" of all. No sooner were they established in a few important cities of the 12th century than...
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Don's Diary
Sunday I am in Slovenia on a British Council sponsored teaching week. My mission, to lecture to students at the University of Ljubljana on British cultural history, literature and popular culture. On...
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Northern nostalgia for school dinners
LIKE most politicians, I am a very emotional person. I say this not because I am innately soppy. Indeed, any product of Lancashire County Council school meals in the 1960s is made of strong stuff. If...
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White paper hints at car parking levy
USERS of university or college car parks may face a new charge as a result of the transport white paper. While business premises will be targeted, a Department of Transport spokesman said other urban...
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Clampdown on RAE
THE higher education funding councils are to crack down on manipulation of the research assessment exercise by institutes that have identified how to optimise their research ratings. However there...
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RAE consultation has spawned two more consultations for health related research
The RAE consultation has spawned two more consultations for health-related research. Colin Smith, who chairs the British Medical Association's medical academic staff committee, has said that an...
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Scientists launch meteorite search
Copenhagen University scientists are leading a Danish expedition in Greenland to search for fragments of a meteorite that crashed to the ground last December and which could help solve some mysteries...
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Ofsted report attacks 'sloppy' research
Education research in the United Kingdom is "disturbingly sloppy and partisan" and the Pounds 70 million of public money it costs could be put to better use with a huge rationalisation of research...
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Colour scheme
(Photograph) - Colour scheme: Peter Vukusic is part of a team at Exeter University that has been awarded Pounds 250,000 to investigate how the iridescent colours of butterflies' wings are formed and...
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Shop steward training
THE University of North London and the South East and East Anglia branches of the T&G trade union have launched an educational partnership, designed to strengthen shop steward training and give...
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Redundancy reprieve
SENIOR managers at the University of East London have agreed to lift threats of compulsory redundancy for three academics following negotiations with lecturers' union Natfhe.