Money for nothing
Lancaster University has come up with a nifty solution to its dire financial difficulties - expected liabilities of Pounds 5.8 million, redundancies, discretionary spending blocked, etc, etc. The...
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Marine protests sinks budget cut
A national marine biological station believes a political campaign against budget cuts has led to a climbdown by English and Scottish higher education funding councils. Earlier this year, the...
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Earning power that depends on learning
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Women are the biggest sinners
Vittoria D'Alessio reports on the social side of a British Psychological Society conference at Strathclyde. The biggest hypocrites in the infidelity debate are women and not their male partners,...
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Case for the defence of tutorials
The tutorial is, apparently, passing rapidly out of existence. Its disappearance will significantly impoverish the learning and teaching environment of undergraduates. Let me take the example of law...
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Strangers in paradise
Student expeditions - adventure holidays for wannabe Livingstones? No, says Daniel Start, leader of the Cambridge group held hostage in West Papua. University expeditions are part of the...
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France keeps budget promise
French higher education has escaped sweeping cutbacks aimed at meeting the Maastricht criteria for a single European currency. It has been awarded the biggest budget increase of any government...
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Training boost
Industry-based training bodies are being set up to help the UK become more competitive, the Government has announced. National Training Bodies will replace about 200 industry training organisations...
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Getting shirty
One purpose of the residential conference of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals is to aid communication between vice chancellors and officials. But it proved the opposite for chief...
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Net opens way to global admissions system
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service could soon match students and higher education institutions as far away as Malaysia and Taiwan, according to chief executive Tony Higgins. Greater use...
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How to keep up with the Browns
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Students reimbursed as Cork breaks link
A private college in Cork, which was in discussions with the University of Exeter over degree validation, has returned the deposits of 50 applicants for places on diploma and degree courses. The...
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Cut-price teaching
Higher Education Trends in this week's THES draws attention to the growing casualisation of the acdemic profession. It is likely, as Lucy Hodges reports (page i), that official figures from the...
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Method not madness
Your article "A subject in the prime of life"(THES, September 13) presents a striking unity of opposites. On the one hand, the decline of mathematics is attributed to its perceived difficulty; on the...
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Strike urge
Lecturers' union Natfhe has announced that it will ballot its 18,000 members in the former polytechnics and HE colleges, urging them to vote for industrial action over this year's 1.5 per cent pay...