Northern attraction
Oxford University is to go on the warpath next summer in its determination to recruit state school applicants other campaigns haven't reached. Existing students will set off next summer in a battle...
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Report in waiting
Sir Ron Dearing's report is out, the higher education bill has been published, the fuss over Oxbridge college fees is reaching its climax. So whatever happened to the North report? Peter North's...
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Five-year survival plan
Paul Mackney starts work today as general secretary of Natfhe aware that the lecturers' union changes leaders as often as football clubs change managers. Natfhe has had five general secretaries in 28...
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Tough nut
President Cardoso of Brazil, who received an honorary degree at the LSE on Wednesday, revealed the astonishing versatility of sociologists. Seems that when he fled Brazil's military regime he spent...
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Lost to a rival
Alumnus to be proud of No 151 might better be titled Alumnus Gone Missing. Despite our efforts to help it earlier in the year (Antithesis, July 4), Corpus Christi College, Oxford is still, in the...
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Manchester rebuked in race case
It is a "matter of sadness and shame" that Manchester University "failed dismally" to follow equal opportunities procedures in its handling of the seven-year race discrimination dispute with law...
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Standards police test powers
SCOTLAND and Wales are to be the test beds for higher education's new system for policing academic standards, the Quality Assurance Agency has announced. Minimum "threshold" standards in history,...
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Good vibrations
(Photograph) - Douglas Johnston, head of music, and producer Graham McMillan (back) celebrate University Radio York's return to the airwaves after closing last summer because of campus redevelopment...
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US signs CERN deal
UNITED States and European officials this week signed an historic agreement bringing $531 million to the world's largest particle-smashing experiment based in Geneva. It is the first such agreement...
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Toy story
A PARTNERSHIP between Brunel University and a toy manufacturer has won this year's prize for the best Teaching Company Scheme programme which is funded by 11 public sector bodies to improve the...
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Medical merger
A Pounds 52 MILLION medical research and teaching centre is to be created by University College London under a private finance deal. The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research will house the...
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Healthy market
THIS week's NHS white paper abolishing the internal market in the health service and proposing a reduction in the number of health authorities and trusts has been welcomed by medical educators....
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Research rivals
UNIVERSITIES could face greater competition for grants if the research councils paid full overheads, Richard Brook, chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, told the...
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Campus bid for business
UNIVERSITIES could take on responsibility for some of the basic research carried out in large firms, generating a new marketplace for academics, says Daniel McCaughan, chief scientist at Nortel, the...
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Science tops EU bill
FROM January Britain takes over the presidency of the European Union. One of the urgent issues to be addressed is the future of Europe's scientific research programme - known as the fifth Framework (...