A member's reminder
Contrary to your report on my meeting with Sir Ron Dearing to discuss the European Business School London's proposals on how the independent sector can help in the future structure of higher...
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Don's diary
MONDAY Am in the masochistic throes of completing a book to get to my publishers by Friday, writing two conference presentations to give tomorrow and wondering how to tell my research students that...
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Poll pundits predict without perspective
WE ARE in the heat of the pre-election period. You can almost smell the cordite as trench warfare takes shape. The parties are hurling their ammunition of propaganda and statistics at each other with...
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English's hold on Asians
REPORTS of the importance of English are commonplace. But the recent spate of news about English in Asia begs attention. In Hong Kong the University Grants Committee has proposed tougher English...
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Revamp for NVQ mooted
A "NEW and improved" model for the much-criticised National Vocational Qualification is in the pipeline to bolster the flagging qualification. The revamp is expected next spring in line with the...
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PFI fuels bid for Stirling polytechnic
THE first further education project under the Government's Private Finance Initiative has been hailed as a milestone by Scottish secretary Michael Forsyth. The Pounds 3.5 million further education...
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Hitch in pig organ trials
THE Cambridge-based company at the centre of plans to transplant genetically modified pig organs to humans is in talks with academic departments in the United States and plans to spread its work...
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Rolls spark shutdown
Physics and chemistry are in trouble. Physicists blame falling student numbers and cuts, while chemists finger the research assessment exercise At least five universities are threatening to shut down...
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Showdown over fees hike
STUDENTS in Nigeria face expulsion if they protest against university fee rises of up to 300 per cent, their government has warned. Some students have sworn that they will use "all means necessary"...
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Science courses axed
Research formula will reward elite Physics and chemistry departments up and down the country are axing courses as student recruitment problems and the research assessment exercise take their toll....
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Birkbeck College
Physics and chemistry are in trouble. Physicists blame falling student numbers and cuts, while chemists finger the research assessment exercise THE Association of University Teachers has launched a...
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Wales waits in wings
Learning about Australia and the US The first BA honours course in Australian studies in the United Kingdom could run at the University of Wales, Lampeter if a proposal being developed there is...
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Menzies chief's quest for cash
Huw Richards talks to two men in the London hot seats of learning about Australia and the US CARL Bridge has come to Britain to promote academic interest in Australia. As Australia prepares to...
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Escape from eastern Europe via the older man
MEN have long suspected that the larger their wallet, the greater their chance of attracting the opposite sex. Now economists at Bradford University have proved it. By looking at information from...
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Colleges to go it alone on pensions
Colleges and new universities are hoping to free themselves from the teachers' pension scheme to avoid being subject to policy decisions designed for schools. The education minister James Paice...