Forsyth proves Highlands support
Michael Forsyth, Secretary of State for Scotland, is providing tangible support for the University of the Highlands and Islands project with a Pounds 500,000 grant for videoconferencing links. The...
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Desperately seeking newly-weds
A Cardiff professor is urgently seeking 200 newly-married couples to assist his research into relationships. Frank Fincham of the University of Wales Cardiff's school of psychology has received...
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Parting of minds
Ian Sutherland of the University of Plymouth is looking for reviewers and calling for papers for a new electronic journal of psychology. Psychology On-Line will be closely allied to Psychiatry On-...
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Unstinting fast food and blue chips
Your item on the preliminary results of the 1995 graduate destinations survey (THES, August 2) released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency contained a couple of errors. The total of 177,500...
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Summer time, and the living is easy?
The long vacation seems to get shorter by the year for the five academics John Davies asked for their summer plans, what with the RAE, medieval farming and swimming with young Bengali men. Do you...
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Faster clearing predicted
Record results expected in this year's A levels could mean a speedy end to clearing. If, as predicted, more students make their hoped-for grades next week, fewer will be fighting for left-over...
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Pressure kept up on parity for medics
Universities are keeping up pressure on the Government over the insufficient funding for next year's medical academic pay award. Philip Love, vice chancellor of Liverpool University and chairman of...
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Battle to keep colleges black
Supporters of black colleges and universities in the United States have leapt to their defence after a series of scandals and financial mishaps hit their credibility. Black colleges were once the...
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Web team builds links
An award-winning university research team has linked with a hypermedia company to develop its prototype of an industrial strength system to open up the closed domain of the World Wide Web. The...
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Lighten up
I would like to express my dismay at the comments offered by Catherine Brace (THES, August 2) regarding the serialised novel Dead Clever by Ted Nield. Descriptions such as "malodorous claptrap" and "...
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Different strokes
What makes Aborigine children draw people as semi-circles when western children draw stick figures? ask Maureen Cox and Rosemary Hill By the age of about two or two-and-a-half, most children have...
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Union boss opposes staff's salary sacrifice
Staff who have offered 5 cent of their salary to help bail out their university are setting a dangerous precedent, the Association of University Teachers has warned. Some 131 staff at Lancaster...
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No sporting chance
The sorry state of British sport is highlighted in a survey of top sportspeople undertaken by two universities. The survey showed dissatisfaction with training facilities, support services and...
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Summit fails to stop student rally
South African students have refused to call off a day of action this week despite a broad consensus reached at a two-day summit on the future of South African higher education and its transformation...
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Competition
When the Robbins committee was appointed just one person in 17went into full-time higher education. Now it is nearly one in three. The Dearing committee has had an impressive list of issues referred...