Students wary of plan to turn union into firm
Proposals are being considered that could create Britain's first full student union company. The plans are raising fears that autonomy could suffer at the hands of a university parent corporation. A...
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Tomorrow's tonic or today's bitter pill?
Simon Targett discovers how, despite a recent dip in the share price of a major biotech firm, Britain's academic spin-off companies are still on to a good thing. Just three weeks ago the share price...
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Ousted president in union defeat
Mags Whelan, the ousted student president who is threatening legal action against Oxford Brookes University student union, has sparked further upset after losing the latest leadership election....
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Clarke degree courts controversy
The dispute about Nottingham Trent's proposal to award Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke an honorary degree has prompted the university to take the "unprecedented step" of breaking the...
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Clock watcher
(Photograph) - Clock watcher: Maxim Kotchoubeyev, a senior official from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, learns the latest about restoration of clocks, fine ceramics and metalwork at West Dean...
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MoD gives details on contracts
The Ministry of Defence has disclosed details of its chemical and biological warfare contracts in universities in a move to reduce Government secrecy. The chemical and biological warfare...
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Oh s-t!
Scientists who criticise Hollywood's depiction of epidemics should realise that "witchcraft science" will always dominate the movies, says Christopher Foreman, a political scientist at the Brookings...
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Dearing's terms of reference
The inquiry has been asked to make recommendations on how the shape, structure, size and funding of higher education, including support for students, should develop to meet the needs of the UK over...
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Does the Rt Hon Lady. . .
. . . recognise that universities . . . are independent of the Government, and that they have a right . . . to take appropriate steps to secure the resources they need to underpin the quality of...
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Selected viewing
Alumni to be proud of nos 32 and 33 are a couple of Scottish politicians. First is Ian Lang, president of the Board of Trade, who had eight days to browse through the Scott report and managed only to...
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Having a Major-Ball
Are the Major family's tastes more sophisticated than is usually admitted? As the prime minister was doing his best to play down the Scott report last week, his elder brother Terry Major-Ball was to...
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Review may leave loans bill dead in the water
The Government's announcement that Sir Ron Dearing is to undertake a thorough review of higher education has rendered the unpopular student loans Bill a "dead duck", according to members of the House...
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Too far, too much, too soon?
A central issue for the new inquiry into higher education is "whether expansion has gone too far", Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, said this week. Growth in higher...
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What a drag net
The old joke about there being only five education news stories (that many?), with their apparent diversity merely variations upon common themes came to several minds last week as the "Essays on the...
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Christians and lions
The American magazine, Sports Illustrated, reports that a college basketball team has recently had two games abandoned - the first because one of its players brandished a chair and threatened a...