Cuppa care and a slice of service
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Vice chancellors indicate support for current pattern of research funding
Vice chancellors meeting in Sheffield last week indicated support for the current pattern of research funding, rejecting any move towards a demarcated group of research universities.They also...
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Space alliance
Birmingham University's astrophysics and space research group has agreed to collaborate with AEA Technology. They will work together on space technology projects, train students together and do joint...
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Elite and proud of it
Dear Ron, It is now public knowledge that a number of major universities are considering forming a premier league and preparing themselves for the measures that would have to be taken to bring it...
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VAT loss
Universities are likely to suffer from new Value Added Tax rules, says an adviser on the tax. John Kennedy, VAT partner at accountants Deloitte and Touche, predicts that they will lose out under a...
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Percentage changes
Your table (THES, July 26) purported to show that there are no female professors of veterinary science in the United Kingdom. Claire Wathes has been professor of veterinary reproduction at The Royal...
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Welsh-tongued nurses on wane
Welsh-speaking school leavers are choosing not to study at Bangor University school of nursing, a decision which could have serious implications for the future of health care in the Welsh heartland....
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'Wrong ideas' are wrong
We were disappointed to see the piece by Jennie Bristow from the University of Sussex portrayed as a student view point on the sensitive issue of extremism on campus. Ms Bristow is not a...
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Lexicon scotches myth of alligators in the subway
Smokers do not burden the health service, green voters do more damage to the environment than other people, and there are no alligators in the sewers of New York. This, anyway, is what statisticians...
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Sports pledge
Oxford University has reiterated pledges to replace sports facilities under threat from its planned Pounds 20-million business school. Oxford's external affairs director said that the school, which...
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Red herring from Mars
The fossils found in a meteorite from Mars by United States scientists do not prove there is life there - and even if there is, they do not tell us how life began, according to a British meteorite...
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The world cuisine of borderless knowledge
John Daniel sets the scene for the 'Universities in the 21st Century' conference in Singapore next week This conference takes place at a time when many countries are showing an increasing similarity...
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HotDocs push thesis contract
A confederation of research student associations in France has proposed students strike a "thesis contract" with the education ministry in an attempt to alleviate some of the trials and tribulations...
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Entry curb on Ulster University students
The University of Ulster has had its student intake for next month drastically reduced after admitting too many students last year. The financial loss is put at about Pounds 500,000. The university...