Schools join in
Tim Boswell, further and higher education minister, said this week that schools as well as universities and colleges will be able to bid for money under the European Union's new Socrates programme...
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Postgraduates lose state bursaries
Nine prestigious professional postgraduate courses have been deprived of their quota of state bursaries in a move which could signal the end of direct Government support of top-level vocational...
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Sacked loan chief going to court
Ronald Harrison, fired this week as chief executive of the Student Loans Company, has announced through his lawyers that he will fight the dismissal through the courts. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of...
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Light as air
(Photograph) - Light as air: a team from the University of Kent at Canterbury is restaging Blaise Pascal's original experiment demonstrating atmospheric pressure as part of the National Week of...
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Battle with CBI on intellectual rights
Universities should have complete initial control of intellectual property rights on collaborative research projects, says the Higher Education Funding Council for England. By taking this line it is...
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Quality: Scots against devolution
Scotland's higher education principals have called for an end to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's quality assessment system, and are seeking a single quality assurance body for the...
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Computer sciences come bottom of the quality class
Computer science departments have produced the lowest proportion of excellent ratings in any of the eight subjects so far assessed for teaching quality by the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Oxford votes on promotions system
A postal vote on Oxford University plans for a promotions system that would create hundreds of new professors and readerships has divided dons. The university is counting the vote today. The...
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Tiger's eyes
(Photograph) - Mahathir Mohamad, prime minister of Malaysia, one of the fast-growing so-called "tiger" economies of South-east Asia, this week launched the Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre at...
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The entertainment industry
On this Comic Relief Day, Jean-Louis Barsoux looks at the peculiar use of humour in Britain's businesses. Managers up and down Britain today will strolled into work wearing red noses. They did this...
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Hairy time for Hong Kong
Huw Richards reports on The THES's conference on the territory's future. In the absence of American participants nobody used the phrase "800 pound gorilla", but the sense of a brooding offstage...
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Complete teacher in a divided world
Akbar Ahmed on the provocative social scientist Ernest Gellner. I first met Ernest Gellner 20 years ago. Based at the London School of Economics, he already had a formidable academic reputation,...
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All quiet on the home front
David Walker looks in vain for meaningful messages from Britain's silent sociologists. Fond as they are of the word, British sociologists do not discourse much. Indeed at the midpoint of this decade...
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Barbie invites dry up for Liz
We shouldn't be surprised by Australian republicanism, argues David Corson, it is what you would expect from a country with such a strong egalitarian culture. In a 1978 poll, Australians were asked...
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Parting political shots
The French pride themselves on Cartesian clarity. They have been trained to turn everyday difficulties into abstract problems, and to seek solutions from the top down, as consequences of general...