Blair lines up food chief
PHILIP JAMES is set to become to food safety issues what Sir Ron Dearing is to higher education. Dr James, director of the Rowett Institute, an independent research body devoted to nutrition, has...
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Gaelic gets cash boost
THE GOVERNMENT is to fund Scotland's sole Gaelic college, Sabhal Mor Ostaig on Skye, on the same basis as other further education colleges in order to support the University of the Highlands and...
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Old universities retain allure
THREE QUARTERS of young university applicants would prefer to attend a traditional institution and most want to study away from home, according to recent research. A survey by the university...
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RAE achievers reap rewards
DUNDEE and St Andrews universities have emerged as the big winners in next year's Scottish funding allocations because of their success in the research assessment exercise. But the majority of the...
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Bullies in the common room
Today's pressures are increasing the incidence of victimisation, Alison Utley found. Bullying is widespread and sophisticated in higher education, new research has concluded. More than a quarter of...
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Definitions of a bully
The term "bullying" describes a range of behaviours from a persistent unwillingness to recognise performance, loyalty and achievement to repeated critical remarks and humiliating or overtly hostile...
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Public sector is dancing in the dark
Public sector dance and drama schools are complaining that they have been excluded from a multi-million pound student support scheme launched by the Arts Council. The scheme will help cover tuition...
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War of words on alien life
The possibility of life on Mars has aroused heated debate within the scientific community, THES reporters examine the issues. BRITISH scientists are expected this week to endorse claims that a...
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Portable laboratory
HOSPITALS, pharmaceutical firms and environment monitoring agencies could benefit from a new portable "micro-laboratory" being developed by researchers at Luton University. The laboratory will enable...
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Mars, the brave new utopia
MARS has become a natural backdrop for 20th-century writers wanting to create their own Utopias. According to Edward James, professor of history at the University of Reading. "It has taken the place...
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V-cs alarmed at shift in control
A BATTLE is looming for control of South Africa's 35 universities and technikons. The government seems to want greater state intervention while institutions are arguing to keep their autonomy....
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Fees infuriate Oz students
Rowdy student protests at two Australian universities last week prevented the councils of the two institutions going ahead with plans to apply full-cost fees to home students. The protests were the...
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Middle East 'fear of peace'
ACADEMICS from four Middle East countries have turned the peace dialogue on its head by meeting to talk about the "fear of peace". A two-day workshop organised in Jordan by the Royal Institute for...
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California dreams of cluster courses
CALIFORNIANS are rebelling at the university tradition of obliging students to take courses outside their chosen major in the name of a broad education. The 24,000 undergraduates at University of...
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US medics in bid to bar foreigners
FEARS of a glut of doctors led to calls this week for a clampdown on the number of foreign medical students allowed to train and practise in the United States. Six medical groups, including the...