Welsh lose out in Budget
WELSH universities and colleges have been hit by budget cuts, which will leave them more than Pounds 300 per student poorer than English institutions. There was no sign of a share for Welsh further...
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Human geography project leader
Staffordshire's division of geography is undertaking a three-year Pounds 200,000 project for the Health and Safety Executive examining perceptions of risk in people who live near chemical plants....
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Head of cellular toxicology unit
Professor Atterwill regards the setting up of the cellular toxicology unit at the biosciences department as one of its major achievements. The unit studies diseases caused by cell damage and develops...
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The Lyons share of cognition
The city of Lyons has been chosen as the site for France's first major research centre for cognitive sciences. The Pounds 5 million project for the future Institut des Sciences Cognitives is being...
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Centre defuses ethnic hotspots
Denmark and Germany have launched a unique inter-disciplinary research institute aimed at solving ethnic conflicts in Europe. The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), based in Flensburg,...
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NVQs lift off
Candidate registrations for National Vocational Qualifications increased by 44 per cent to 118,298 for 1995/96, new figures from the RSA Examinations Board reveal. "This is the first sign of...
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Beer money
(Photograph) - Beer money: Middlesex University chaplain Janet Beer took the role of Children in Need mascot Pudsey Bear at the university's meditation group recently. She raised Pounds 340 for the...
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Prehistoric moving picture show
The Cave Beneath The Sea - Chauvet Cave
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Schools of thought
The Learning Game
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Why your youngest are truly revolting
Born To Rebel
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Speaking Volumes: A. J. P. Taylor's Europe, Grandeur and Decline
On A. J. P. Taylor's Europe, Grandeur and Decline . There can be little doubt that the writer who most influenced me intellectually was A. J. P.Taylor. I came under his spell as a teenager watching...
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A kaleidoscope of talents
Walter Oakeshott
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Paper trails to Mozart
Mozart
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File on the rankings
At-a-glance guide to every institution's performance in the 1996 RAE These graphics, prepared by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, show the performance of every institution entered in...
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Media spotlight reaps reward
Media Studies: Westminster University, 1992 rating: 5, 1996 rating: 5 WESTMINSTER University's media studies department got a 5 in 1992 - and found itself the subject of serious media attention,...