Get a grip
And now, a story with a happy ending. A new Strathclyde University graduate, about to be photographed after the ceremony by her proud parents, gave her handbag to her brother. The brother, refusing...
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Nuclear family
Congratulations to a bunch of particle physicists from 34 institutes who published a major paper on quarks and have now managed to amass one citation for every institution, according to Science Watch...
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Count on it
Inefficient administration can have its benefits. Overheard recently on one South African university campus was the following exchange: "Aren't you worried about compulsory redundancies, given the...
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Wait for it
Those pointed jokes about McDonalds' employees who get their posts through clearing are applicable outside Britain as well. Canadian news magazine Maclean's reports that the entire counter staff of...
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Natfhe threatens strike on contracts
College enrolment week, which starts on Monday, faces disruption in some parts of the country because of strikes by lecturers over contracts. Lecturers' union Natfhe is co-ordinating the action and...
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Squint for victory
The academic historian has a new enemy - and rather a sad one, as it should be a natural ally. Nothing in the World History Congress session on imperial archives won more fervent assent than a...
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Utterly scrabbled
Production quality being one of those things that worries academic and other authors, Canadian publishers DPLU, whose stand at this week's World History Congress at Montreal informed participants...
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Scots FE spreads net
The number of full-time higher education students in Scottish further education colleges has more than doubled in under five years, according to the Scottish Office . Numbers rose from 9,216 in 1989/...
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Warning on A-level failures
The Government has warned universities against setting up new foundation courses and filling them with students who have failed their A levels. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and...
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Lib-Dem debate on who pays fees
Students would have to pay some of their course fees under an Pounds 8 billion higher education expansion plan the Liberal Democrat are considering. The party's higher education working group has...
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Blooming hot: Graham Benskin, senior botanic gardener at Leicester University's Harold Martin botanic garden
(Photograph) - Blooming hot: Graham Benskin, senior botanic gardener at Leicester University's 16-acre Harold Martin botanic garden, admires pawpaws that have grown to giant proportions in this...
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Mystery of star pupil's rejection
A senior lecturer at Staffordshire University has called medical schools' selection processes into question after his son's four As at A level brought him 20 rejections. Mohammed Al-Mousawi is...
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Chile first for satellite
Chile's first satellite, built and designed by engineers at Surrey University, was launched into space from a site in Russia earlier this week. Ed Milton, general manager of the University's Surrey...
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Cash to keep north's brains
Talented graduates are the target of a Pounds 500,000 initiative to find attractive career opportunities for them in County Durham and stop the brain drain from the north. Research commissioned by...
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Logical switch
Teenagers should study logic and rhetoric as part of a new baccalaureate-style diploma, the Association of University and College Lecturers has proposed. The union says A levels should be replaced...