Funds for science earmarked
The Office of Science and Technology has earmarked nearly Pounds 21 million for special initiatives in the science budget for 1996/97. Announcing guidelines for the research councils over the next...
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Oxford graduate charter
Oxford university graduates have drawn up a charter with 26 recommendations on research supervision, facilities, employment of graduates in teaching and taught postgraduate courses. The Graduate...
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Engineers find students weak in mathematics
The majority of engineering lecturers surveyed by the Engineering Council believe that the mathematical competence of first-year engineering students is significantly weaker today than it was ten...
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Number cruncher
Tim Holt is to be the next director of the Central Statistical Office and head of the Government statistical service. He is now deputy vice chancellor of Southampton University.
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FE reined in
Scotland's further education colleges have lost the prospect of a spending spree to dispose of funds by the end of March. They have been brought into line with England and Wales, and no longer have a...
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Green fingers
(Photograph) - Green fingers: Tutor Hardial Singh designs a garden by computer on a new course at Bradford and Ilkley Community College's department of alternative education. Students learn to design...
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Lassies boom
The proportion of women undergraduates entering Scottish higher education rose from 43 per cent in 1980/81 to 49 per cent in 1992/93. The latest Scottish Office bulletin says there was an 11.5 per...
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Shephard's staff
Charles Hendry, MP for High Peak in Derbyshire since 1992, is the new parliamentary private secretary to Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education. He graduated from the University of...
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Cape compact
Closer scientific collaboration between South Africa and the United Kingdom was signalled this week with an agreement between the two countries. Science minister David Hunt, visiting South Africa,...
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Statistical first
The Higher Education Statistics Agency this week produced its first publication, Higher Education Statistics for the United Kingdom 1992/93 (129 pages, Pounds 15) in conjunction with the Government...
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No negotiations
Natfhe's further education sector conference has endorsed the union's executive decision not to negotiate over new contracts with employers at Acas. This week's initial ACAS meeting between the...
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Lords hear of need for rare research
Patients with rare diseases must be able to be referred to university hospitals to ensure that clinical research into such problems is not threatened, a House of Lords inquiry has been told. Scottish...
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External study's surprise success
The University of London's external programme, where students can study for a degree from anywhere in the world, has had a 52 per cent increase in enquiries following a brief advertising campaign....
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Multi-campus plan for Brum
Birmingham could get a multi-campus university on the American state university model if plans to link the University of Central England and East Birmingham College go ahead. East Birmingham is...
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Access students reprieved
Thousands of access course students whose plans to go on to higher education were jeopardised by the abolition of the mature students' allowance have been reprieved. The Department for Education and...