Academic aid fails the health service
Financial pressure is causing havoc in university health service units, Harriet Swain discovers. THE departure last month of Eric Caines, Nottingham University's head of health service management,...
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Opera woos islands
THE Pavarotti Foundation has proposed setting up a classical music and opera college on the Hebridean island of Eigg. The plan would give the University of the Highlands and Islands project a fillip...
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Blair to fund new ideas from old
A Labour government would launch a multi-million pound scheme aimed at supporting young, emerging talent in the arts, science and technology, it was announced this week. Giving a speech on the arts...
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Pecking order
Frank Gould (THES, January 17) rightly points to the improved performance of former polytechnics in the 1996 RAE but his two role models - the 1960s universities and the advanced technology colleges...
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Britain takes lead in material world
BRITAIN is set to take the lead in advanced materials science research thanks to a Pounds 842,000 grant from the Higher Education Funding Council. The money, to be matched by cash from Italy, will be...
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Citizenship is not just cricket
On page 5 of The THES, January 31, a quote starting "If the secretary for education and employment decides" in the story entitled "Citizenship is not just cricket" was attributed to the TTA instead...
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Dickens twist
There should be some fun next time quality assessors visit the English department at the University of Pune, India. Examiners there followed last year's triumph of relocating an Arthur Miller...
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First for the Third
STUDENTS and administrative staff at Rome's Third University will for the first time be able to vote for the rectorship, according to a statute approved by the academic council. The weight of student...
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Halls rent rise tops inflation
* Student residences have been exempted from a new scheme to regulate landlords, writes Chris Johnston. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has convinced the Government that universities...
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Mormons sack historian
PRIVATE religious colleges in the United States have historically adopted a secular outlook that emphasises their academic mission over their spiritual one. But at Brigham Young University, the...
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Legal snares restrict politically intrepid
UNIVERSITY groups must obey strict rules to avoid bias in the run-up to the general election, student leaders have warned. The law considers students' unions charitable organisations, which means...
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LSE hopes to decide on a new director by December
THE London School of Economics has agreed a shortlist of five for the post of director and hopes to reach a decision within a month. Possible candidates are Baroness Blackstone, master of Birkbeck...
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Mature student leads biggest university
A WOMAN who entered academia as a mature student has been appointed head of Britain's largest university. Alexandra Burslem, deputy vice chancellor and academic director of Manchester Metropolitan...
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Welsh resist English takeover
Plans for a single quality assurance body drawn up by the Higher Education Funding Council for England came in for fresh criticism this week - from the council's sister quango in Wales. The Higher...