Report due on GCU funds
The National Audit Office is preparing a report to parliament on alleged mismanagement at Glasgow Caledonian University in the wake of an investigation into its use of public funds. John Sizer, chief...
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Scottish Office steps in
The Scottish Office has intervened to avert financial disaster at Clydebank College with a loan of almost Pounds 1 million, writes Olga Wojtas. The deal includes the appointment of consultants who...
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Debt for sale
THE last sections of the Education (Student Loans) Act come into force on Sunday, but there is still no word of which company is to buy the existing loan debt. The act legislates for the sale of the...
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Early starters race in
TWO new universities have swelled numbers on some courses by offering early entry for students seeking to escape next year's tuition fee charges. The University of Central England received...
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Clause 18 support
STUDENTS had their prayers answered this week after the government appeared to have won the Lords' support for controversial clause 18 of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill. Members of the...
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Glasgow scholarships
Glasgow University is offering 50 four-year scholarships worth Pounds 1,000 annually to students starting undergraduate courses in October. They will be allocated to the best qualified students on...
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Future is good for Scots past
AS SCOTLAND prepares for its own parliament, Dundee University and the Open University have created a distance learning course that traces Scottish history from 1707, when it ceased to have a...
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Highlands plan goes forward
The University of the Highlands and Islands project this week unveiled its blueprint strategy to win university status by 2001, writes Olga Wojtas. Its consultative document sets a deadline of...
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Country house hunt
THE HUGE success of period dramas on film and television has renewed popular interest in the English country house. The interest has not been mirrored in academia where, aside from a narrow focus on...
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Sponging up an oil spill
ADVANCED materials best thought of as microsponges could be used to soak up oil spills and to decontaminate land polluted by toxic heavy metals. Research at Greenwich University's school of chemical...
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A few snacks a day keep the fat away
SNACKING may be the way for men to lose weight, according to Sandra Drummond and Terry Kirk of the department of dietetics and nutrition at Edinburgh's Queen Margaret College. A study of 100 men and...
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Scots circulate the Med
EDINBURGH scientists have won contracts worth Pounds 245,000 to join a Brussels-backed probe of the Mediterranean Sea. Working with 250 scientists from 13 countries, the Scots, led by Keith Haines...
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Disaster data comes to the rescue
COVENTRY University researchers have received Pounds 45,000 from the Higher Education Funding Council for England to study the use of information in disaster management. The team will see how...
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Big Brother watches Big Brother
Big Brother will be watching 16 families in Yorkshire, East Anglia and London to see how technology is changing their lives and relationships. Researchers from the Institute of Communication Studies...
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Lectures
Leicester University. The following inaugural lectures will be held in Lecture Theatre 1, The New Building at 5.30pm. They are open to the public. March 3: David Field, professor of neonatal medicine...