Leverhulme contest
More than 360 academics from the humanities and social sciences have applied for a handful of prestigious Leverhulme personal research professorships. Between four and six posts, worth Pounds 55,000...
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Peace campus call
Joe Hendron, SDLP MP for West Belfast, and Cecil Walker, Unionist MP for North Belfast, are urging prime minister John Major to salvage Ulster University's plans for a peaceline campus which would...
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Reading on rise
The 1995/96 British Library annual report notes a record 476,762 visits to reading rooms - a 3 per cent increase on 1994/95. More than 4.38 million documents, up 6 per cent, were supplied to remote...
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Unions reject 5% pay rise
FURTHER industrial action is expected in higher education following the unions' unanimous rejection of the latest pay offer from employers. But the two sides are expected to agree to set up an...
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Gloucester comes to rescue campus
THE three-year battle to save Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education's redundant Gloucester campus is nearly won after a cash injection from Gloucester City Council. The council hopes...
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17 per cent more students in FE
STUDENT numbers in further education rose 17 per cent last academic year, the Further Education Funding Council reports. The figures come from the Individualised Student Record, introduced in 1994/95...
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Delay on LSE fees
THE INCOMING director of the London School of Economics has refused to commit the school to undergraduate tuition fees, despite approval for the idea from the court of governors. Anthony Giddens said...
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Harris takes CVCP chair
MARTIN Harris is to be the new chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. The Manchester University vice chancellor was elected unopposed and will take over from Gareth Roberts on...
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Taken for granted
The National Lottery Charities Board (THES, December 13) is prohibited from making grants to individuals. It can only give funds to charitable, philanthropic or benevolent bodies. Therefore,...
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Don's Diary
Friday Marge and I are picked up from Helsinki University, where I gave a presentation yesterday to catch the flight to Stockholm. On arrival we meet Nobel Foundation officials and Ulrike, the...
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Mahatma rises from the ashes
NOT MANY people outside South Africa would know that 1996 was the 50th anniversary of a passive resistance campaign started in Durban by Albert Luthuli (a citizen of KwaZulu Natal who later earned...
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Disabled set alarm bells ringing
LAST WEEK vice chancellors and principals met to discuss the impact of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act on universities and colleges. Only the week before, Unison members joined a mass lobby of...
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Honest scientist (batteries not included)
The chemistry department of a fictional English university and a sun battery provide the winning ingredients for a new play. Chris Johnston speaks to its writer and director Stephen Poliakoff The man...
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What button do you press to turn on tomorrow?
Science museums are now confronted by sophisticated visitors hankering after displays of nanofabrication, biotechnology and neutron beams. But how are curators more used to preserving the past going...
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Hungary for the truth
Gyorgy Litvan is history in the flesh. Jailed for his activities during the 1956 uprising, he is about to retire as director of the institute devoted to that turbulent time. Huw Richards spoke to him...