Prize energises biochemist's listless study
Cambridge University biochemist Guy Brown is the first winner of a new Pounds 25,000 popular science writing award from the Wellcome Trust. The award will allow him to complete his book Living Energy...
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Report pinpoints crisis in governance
UNIVERSITY governance is in crisis and is likely to worsen after the Dearing report, a conference for senior higher education staff heard this week. A paper by Peter Scott, director of the centre for...
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Staff slam Lancs regime
Lancaster University was in the midst of another crisis this week as around 100 academics said in a straw poll that they had lost confidence in senior management and that some should consider their...
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Leyland bows out after calls for resignation
David Leyland, Southampton Institute's controversial director, has agreed to take early retirement at the end of August. The news was announced to staff by governors at a meeting last Friday. It...
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Bid to make student work placement universal
Newly employed graduates with no work experience cost British business up to Pounds 2 billion a year, according to research which has been passed to Sir Ron Dearing in a bid to make work placements a...
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'Ease medic squeeze'
The training of the nation's doctors and dentists could be under threat unless action is taken now to ease pressures on clinical academics, says a report published this week. Commissioned by the...
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Leeds staff win redundancy pay
Research staff on fixed contracts at Leeds University will be entitled to redundancy money when their contracts cease, in a "breakthrough" which the Association of University Teachers hopes will...
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Natfhe makes lone strike threat
Further education colleges could face another summer strike wave following the breakdown this week of pay talks between lecturers' union Natfhe and the Association of Colleges. Natfhe said it was...
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Postgrad bottleneck warning
students who want to progress to postgraduate level could encounter significant financial barriers if the Dearing committee's funding proposals go ahead, a member of the inquiry team has warned,...
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Scots' flexible credit to go nationwide
Sir Ron Dearing's committee is to recommend that a flexible qualifications system based on the Scottish higher education model be introduced nationwide, writes Tony Tysome. The system would allow...
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Leaky ship sails off
Media speculation over the contents of the Dearing report appears to have reduced members of Sir Ron's committee to a state of paranoia. Tales of what Sir Ron will recommend have been so accurate (...
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Oxbridge gap
As any alumni officer will tell you, finding current addresses for your former inmates is possibly the toughest part of the job. Corpus Christi College Oxford, organising a gaudy for the late 1970s...
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Baubles and bowling
Long and distinguished service to the relevant community is one way to an honorary degree or fellowship, but there are others. Later this month the University of Wales, Cardiff, will award an...
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Self immolation?
A senior lecturer at the ill-fated La Sainte Union College of Higher Education may be jumping from the frying pan into the fire when he becomes principal of St Chad's College, Durham. Joseph Cassidy...
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Bailed out
Was that British artist and alleged bodysnatcher Noel Kelly we spotted on the television coverage of the Tyson/Holyfield fight last weekend, leaping into the ring with the formaldehyde-filled bottle...