Students press for reforms
More than 100 student union officers have formed a pressure group to lobby the National Union of Students for a "more realistic" policy on education funding. The group, New Solutions, hopes to pave...
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Trimble out
David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, is no longer a member of staff of Queen's University, Belfast (The THES, September 15). He relinquished his post there after the 1992 general...
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Science competition
Science minister Ian Taylor this week launched a competition to reward industry-university collaboration in science, engineering and technology. The competition will award prizes worth a total of...
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Win for Ruskin on the National Lottery
Lancaster University is to receive Pounds 2.3 million from the National Lottery to build the Ruskin Library. It will house the world's foremost collection of art, manuscripts, books and diaries...
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Prizes for designers
More than Pounds 100,000 worth of prizes are on offer for talented designers in this year's student design awards run by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce....
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Bellamy's call
A group of scientific ombudsmen should be set up to pronounce on issues of public concern, according to naturalist David Bellamy. Talking at the British Association for the Advancement of Science in...
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Women to order
Government departments are to be encouraged to appoint female scientists to public positions by a catalogue pointing them in the direction of suitable women. The Development Unit on Women in Science...
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Baby boom
Higher and further education institutions are being targetted this week by a national campaign to improve child-care facilities for students and staff. The Association of University Teachers, Natfhe...
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Talks on track
Sir Bob Reid, former chairman of British Rail, is to chair the key negotiations on the planned merger of the Association for Colleges and the Colleges Employers Forum. Also chairing some of the...
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National Trust failure
The National Trust has failed to save fast-disappearing landscapes or to boost rural economies sufficiently, the director of the centre for the rural economy at Newcastle University, is set to say...
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Action on standards
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's determination to be the main quality watchdog for universities north of the border seems to have derailed plans for a UK-wide single quality agency, at...
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Action on standards
The proportion of students taken on to foundation courses after failing their A levels is tiny, the Higher Education Quality Council has told the Government. A report ordered by Gillian Shephard,...
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Well dressed
(Photograph) - Well dressed: Olympic dressage rider Ian Stark was the star turn at a fund-raising evening for the Pounds 6 million Weipers Centre for Equine Welfare now being built at the University...
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Action on standards
Vice chancellors may move towards uniform degree standards when they meet in Belfast next week. The annual residential meeting of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals will receive an...
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Thesis
The THES Internet Service, THESIS, gets a new look today. The redesigned pages are intended both to provide a better service for our regular visitors and to attract new Internet users who have...