Queen's banned IRA victim
The spectre of terrorism has returned to haunt Queen's University, Belfast, in spite of the precarious peace that still persists in the province. Two weeks ago Sean Devlin was shot dead in front of a...
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Pulped days, blurred nights
Booze, buddies, boogie and boredom. Chris Johnston samples the ups and downs of freshers' week. University administrators may think freshers' week is for helping new students settle into unfamiliar...
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Universities 'must learn to network'
Universities must learn from multinational companies and create new types of networks both inside and outside the academic world, according to Hans van Ginkel, vice president of the Conference of...
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Cutting off research's oxygen supply
Of the various proposals that are being floated before the Dearing committee the one to concentrate research funds on a small number of "elite" or premier league universities is the most wrong-headed...
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Just old codswallop
Eric Laithwaite's review of my book, The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science (THES, June 21), makes little attempt to discharge the first duty of a reviewer, namely to give readers some...
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From piety to a cosmic order
It would be a mistake to dismiss Roger Scruton's recent arguments on animals and their lack of rights as narrow and partisan, argues David Wiggins. Indeed they come in a framework that offers the...
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Highlands aims even higher
The University of the Highlands and Islands project is to seek Pounds 10 million from the European Union following its success this week in winning Pounds 33 million from the Millennium Commission...
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Cash for the best, says v-c
Cambridge University is to campaign for funding arrangements that will preserve its position among the world's elite higher education institutions, its new vice chancellor said this week. Alec Broers...
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Deal struck on staff contracts
The Robert Gordon University and the Educational Institute of Scotland have reached an 11th hour agreement on academic contracts, avoiding a further legal battle. The union won a Court of Session...
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Good old daze
Is Labour's front-bench education and employment team on some kind of productivity bonus? Not content with generating about half of the thick pack of reports handed over to conference delegates, it,...
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NUS alerts student tenants to the dangers of the Housing Act
Booze, buddies, boogie and boredom. Alan Thomson samples the ups and downs of freshers' week. The National Union of Students issued special guidelines this week amid fears that new legislation will...
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French without grammar
School-leavers' proficiency in English grammar may be declining but this has little bearing on students' abilities to learn a foreign language at university, says a report from Lancaster University....
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Minister leaves legacy of 3,000 extra places
More than 3,000 extra students should go to university or a technological institute this year in Greece, former education secretary George Papandreou announced on the eve of the election in which the...
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Private rules for public institutions
Dire is the only word to describe the picture painted by the Higher Education Funding Council for England's analysis of the financial forecasts of English and northern Irish universities. The figures...
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Worth his salt
Aisling Irwin (THES, September ) dates "the birth of animal rights" with the publication of Paul Singer's Animal Liberation in 1975 and the notion of "rights" as derived from the United States. Henry...