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Canadians urge caution on performance measure
Performance indicators are slowly making their way into Canadian universities, mainly via Alberta and Ontario, Susan Gray writes. The Council of Ministers of Education of Canada is in favour of the...
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Now home is where the HE is
Large numbers of Britain's 1.5 million students are staying close to home for their education. David Charter analyses HESA's first far-reaching Data Report The growing trend for students to study in...
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Events
VOLUNTARY SECTOR. The National Council for Voluntary Organisations has organised a conference, Researching the UK Voluntary Sector, September 7-8, to be held at the NCVO, Regent's Wharf, 8 All Saints...
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Chairs
INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, LONDON. Michael Barber, professor of education at the University of Keele, chair in education and dean of new initiatives; Brahm Norwich, senior lecturer in department of...
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Contract researchers glimpse future
An official draft agreement to bring terms and conditions of service for thousands of contract researchers into line with those for established staff has been issued for consultation. The concordat...
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Appointments
CVCP. Diana Warwick, general secretary of the Association of University Teachers, has been appointed chief executive of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals of the University of the...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a futuristic novel that launched a philanderer's literary career: "But to me the future is still black and blank - is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by...
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Speaking Volumes: The British Isles: A Geographical and Economic Survey
Sergey Artobolevskiy on L. D. Stamp and S. Beaver's The British Isles: A Geographical and Economic Survey. During my 25-year career I have used thousands of books, from my early days at Moscow State...
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World View
(Photograph) - World View: A new exhibition The Earth and the Heavens opened earlier this month at the King's Library (within the British Museum, Great Russell Street London WC1) and runs until...
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Jump in, the water's lovely
Liverpool's long-term unemployed are being asked to take the plunge into a unique Training for Work course - by starting each session with a jacuzzi. Merseyside Training and Enterprise "positive...
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Middlesex sets up `court' for comment
Middlesex University has joined the growing number of former polytechnics to create a court as a forum for wider community involvement in the university. It will meet annually and be made up of MPs,...
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Silver book staff issued ultimatum
National negotiations on further education pay expected to take place today are set to hit a new low because of threats by the leader of the employer's side, Graham Baskerville, principal of...
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Apply again, funding council tells universities
English universities have been told to resubmit part of their applications for next year's cash allocations following a funding council inquiry. The resubmissions are for returns in the quality...
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Reform signalled by green paper
The Government is to publish a higher education green paper before the end of the year to tackle issues emerging from its review of the sector. The news was leaked by junior ministers shortly before...