Trend to tighter graduate targets
Graduate employers are getting "too choosy", according to the quarterly Graduate Salary and Vacancy Survey. Figures show that employers are targeting students more specifically than ever before. The...
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Amenable mater
Mike Scott, universities and colleges liaison officer of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, speaking at a recent Council of Europe conference on higher education access, revealed that...
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Blind pioneer's vision
The Disability Discrimination Act aims to encourage institutions to provide a better service for students with disabilities. Paul Brown, Scotland's national coordinator for students with special...
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No pain gain after surgery
Patients undergoing surgery may have faster recovery rates in future thanks to an advance in anaesthetics pioneered at Glasgow University. Target Controlled Infusion is seen as a major advance...
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Budding engineers go to market
Richard Barry argues for axing engineering faculties that accept students with low A-level points. I disagree. The purpose of education is to change minds, and the purpose of engineering is to change...
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A great thinker but an ordinary man
When Ann Oakley sat down to write a biography of her father, social thinker Richard Titmuss, she discovered that like many men of his generation much of his public success had been based on the...
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Catch in tax dodge
I read with interest your report of the Profit Related Pay scheme (PRP) at the University of the West of England, whereby an element of salary will be paid as a tax-free "profit" distribution. No...
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Benn on Blair
Tony Benn fires another salvo at New Labour in a review of Brian Brivati's biography of Hugh Gaitskell on page 24. He rejects perceptions of Gaitskell as an early Blairite moderniser, presenting him...
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Mash to mush
Montreal's Concordia University had a slithery little ceremony two weeks ago as the recycling coordinator introduced a vermiculture programme to turn vegetable matter into rich, garden-ready compost...
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Disney on madness
Images of madness in Walt Disney films, such as the mother in Dumbo and father in Mary Poppins perpetuate stereotypes of mental illness as a condition that can be violent and needs confinement,...
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Taking the air
(Photograph) - Composer Andrew Downes (left), head of composition and creative studies at Birmingham Conservatoire, has composed "Towards a New Age" for the 150th anniversary of the Institution of...
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Small is beautiful for Scots
The Disability Discrimination Act aims to encourage institutions to provide a better service for students with disabilities. Scotland's compactness has allowed the Scottish Higher Education Funding...
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Women chart ocean cycle
Yachtswomen racing around the world for nine months will record details of sea sickness and menstrual cycles to help scientists understand motion sickness. Michael Gresty's team at the Medical...
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Unions flex muscles over pay rise retreat
Australia's main academic union plans to adopt a more aggressive industrial stance towards wage rises and job security. The decision comes as vice chancellors face growing pressure from the...
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Budding engineers go to market
Richard Barry's hope that a cull of so-called weaker engineering faculties, as defined by input standards alone, will produce candidates who will take up training to be skilled engineering craftsmen...