LSE hopes to decide on a new director by December
THE London School of Economics has agreed a shortlist of five for the post of director and hopes to reach a decision within a month. Possible candidates are Baroness Blackstone, master of Birkbeck...
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Rugby death was not the first
Ian Tucker, the Oxford University rugby player who died this week after being injured during a game, is not the first top-class student player to have been killed in this way. Charles McIvor, who was...
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Mikhail Gorbachev
(Photograph) - Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev was in Oxford earlier this week as a guest of St Anthony's College. He was welcomed by Lord Jenkins, chancellor of the university, to the...
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Moral lessons for teachers
Teacher trainers should pay much more attention to the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of young people, according to an unpublished report which forms the basis for a consultation...
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Bullying claims may lead to dismissal
Governors at a further education college hit by allegations of bullying have taken the first steps towards instituting dismissal proceedings. The corporation of Stoke on Trent College has set up a...
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Campus take-off for yogic fliers
The yogic fliers of the Natural Law Party are hoping to see support take off in universities as they bid to establish a national network of campus groups. The NLP is already established in Manchester...
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BMA targets low-paying colleges
THE British Medical Association has threatened to "blacklist" universities as anger comes to a head over pay disparities between university and NHS doctors. BMA chiefs agreed on October 16 to invoke...
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Selection of prints has been donated to De Montfort University
(Photograph) - Some day my prints will come: an impressive selection of prints showing large-scale verse by Swiss concrete poet Eugen Gomringer and American visual poet Robert Lax (left) has been...
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Cybercafe imbues taste for learning
De Montfort, once the country's fastest growing university, is planning to build an ambitious cybercafe-cum-tutorial complex which could prompt a new escalation in student numbers via a multi-million...
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Lecturers unite
The UK's two largest lecturers' unions have relaunched potential merger talks following the failure of an existing scheme to achieve greater unity. Executive members of the Association of University...
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Merger go-ahead
As expected, the Education Bill unveiled by the Government on Wednesday contains proposals to merge the Schools Curriculum and Assessment Authority with the National Council for Vocational...
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Strike ballot
Lecturers in 92 further education colleges across England and Wales will be balloted next week on strike action over pay. College-by-college ballots open on Monday with possible strikes set for...
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Criminal obsession
The propensity for British women to fall for prisoners on death row is to become the focus of a study by Ellis Cashmore, professor of sociology at Staffordshire University. Professor Cashmore hopes...
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New cistern
The idea of installing Pounds 200 equipment that uses rainwater to flush the lavatory and water the flowerbeds appeals to over 90 per cent of people in the Leamington and Coventry areas. The study by...
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Women told to take risks to get a first
High achievement in the Cambridge history course, one of the country's most prestigious, depends less on accuracy and more on brilliant wit and "bull**** of a high quality", an investigation by the...