Welsh funding
The Welsh Office has made Pounds 1,1,162 available to the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales for Access funds in 1995/96, an increase of 2.4 per cent on the previous year. Access allocations...
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Me, me and Me
Opera singer Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who set the Desert Island Discs all-comers record for self-referentiality by choosing eight records of her own performances, has an intellectual soul-mate in...
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Hot stuff
Languid, phlegmatic and even inert are among adjectives that might be used to describe the staff of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals but never, until now, overheated. However, is...
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Grammar rules
Alumni to be proud of numbers two and three: Corpus Christi College, Oxford boasted as undergraduates, at one and the same time, Roger Waterhouse, now vice chancellor of Derby University and Richard...
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Professor young
Liverpool University is harbouring a prodigy. A recent copy of their Precinct newsletter includes a heartfelt plea from "An eight-year-old professor's daughter, tall, blonde and beautiful . . ....
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Looking through the eyes of Islam:Hizb ut-Tahrir
(Photograph) - Looking through the eyes of Islam: a rally by the Islamic extremist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, attracted protests from the National Union of Students this week - but passed off peacefully.
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ACTIN up to tap the cleverness of plants
Planting fields of plastic, and coppicing willows for the village power station are just some of the ways in which British agriculture might have to diversify to keep up with international...
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NUS keys into open access by global college
A global further and higher education virtual college with open access for everyone and driven by student demand was unveiled this week as the National Union of Students' vision for learning in the...
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Research cash announced
The "golden triangle" of London, Oxford and Cambridge has lived up to its title in the latest cash allocations announced this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for England for 1995/96. The...
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Video stills the criminal star
Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Atlanta. The video footage of a murderer's getaway car, which was so blurred that not even...
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Male fish play mating game to boost yields
Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Atlanta. A biologist has mated two male fish, producing some "extra" male offspring with...
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Satellite snooping approaches legal orbit
Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Atlanta. An American academic says she was asked by the Los Angeles police department this...
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Students' day of triumph
France's student unions claimed victory this week after the government shelved university reforms in the face of strikes and demonstrations. But they went ahead with a march yesterday to press for...
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