Rethink on quality revealed
THE QUALITY Assurance Agency has given its plans for checking standards in higher education a second overhaul. A confidential internal paper leaked to The THES reveals how the agency is treading a...
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High kicks
(Photograph) - BOAC ground staff admire the legs of 1953 Miss World contestants sitting on an aircraft wing. The picture is from an online archive of 52,000 images collated from the Hulton Getty...
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What universities think
The Quality Assurance Agency insists that universities responded positively to its original consultation paper. Tony Tysome trawled responses and found little evidence of this. Oxford said the QAA...
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Hitches of getting hitched
To merge or not to merge, that is the question. THES reporters ponder the pitfalls Governors at Imperial College, London, are meeting today to discuss merging with Wye College, also part of the...
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Leeds awaits Blunkett's decision on its big double wedding
Hitches of getting hitched. To merge or not to merge, that is the question. THES reporters ponder the pitfalls Leeds has two big mergers in the pipeline, both awaiting the final approval of secretary...
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Merger update
Hitches of getting hitched. To merge or not to merge, that is the question. THES reporters ponder the pitfalls Imperial College and Wye College, London.Governors meet today to discuss merger.Leeds...
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Scottish pair get Dewar's blessing
Hitches of getting hitched. To merge or not to merge, that is the question. THES reporters ponder the pitfalls Moray House Institute of Education and Edinburgh University have won approval from...
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Chernobyl to be replaced
BRITISH taxpayers are likely to pay part of the Pounds 1 billion-plus cost of two new nuclear power stations to replace Chernobyl in Ukraine following support from the European Bank for...
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How the system of scientific advice works for government
Each government department, from health to the foreign office, should have a chief scientific adviser whose function it is to get the relevant minister to recognise where a science problem exists....
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Gripping stuff
(Photograph) - A visitor to the new British Library sits on Bill Woodrow's bronze sculpture, Sitting On History. The Pounds 511-million library was formally opened by Her Majesty the Queen yesterday...
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Scotland calls for adviser of its own
SCOTLAND's Royal Society of Edinburgh wants a chief scientific adviser for Scotland in post by the time the new Scottish parliament is set up. The Garrick committee, the Scottish arm of the Dearing...
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Whitehall told to open science
THE Royal Society is urging the government to make public all scientific advice it receives unless publishing it is against the national interest. In its submission to the House of Commons science...
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Rhyl mums united
There is very little difference in terms of support, feelings and emotional health between partnered and lone mothers, according to a Bangor University study. Clare Winger and her team from the...
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Super crimebuster
Police in Cleveland are hoping to predict crime patterns through a study conducted by a superintendent seconded to the University of Teesside. Superintendent Ashley Blackett, Cleveland police head of...
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Pious pioneer of the pen
The diaries of Lady Margaret Hoby reveal the everyday life and religious devotions of a wealthy heiress and landowner in Elizabethan North Yorkshire. Joanna Moody of York University has edited The...