Don's Diary
Monday. Breakfast at Hotel Villa Kastania (Horsechestnut Hotel). Most of the streets in Charlottenburg (part of the British quarter of Berlin) are named after the trees which line them. We do not...
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Down to earth
(Photograph) - Down to earth: The first pictures beamed to earth from the European environmental satellite, ERS-2, include this one of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, taken by a British-...
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Scots colleges go poly
Six of Scotland's 43 further education colleges have set themselves up as a "polytechnic" sector offering an alternative to university-based higher education. A quarter of higher education entrants...
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Natfhe official changes sides
A senior official of lecturers' union Natfhe has been poached by the new lecturers-for-hire business backed by college employers. Richard Eve, assistant further education secretary, was given a week...
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Dearing looks to single post-school qualification
A single qualifications framework for post-school education and training, with a new points system for entry into higher education, could emerge from a Government-backed review. Sir Ron Dearing, who...
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Boom in local heroics
For those surfeited with VE Day, neutral Sweden was ideal last weekend. Most Swedes were more concerned by the national ice hockey team's failure in the World Championship final. But there is no...
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Status fight
Roehampton Institute is to renew its fight for university status following planning permission to develop its campus for the relocation of the new Southlands College from Wimbledon and the creation...
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Seeing double
Data on home, first-year mature students on higher education courses published in Hansard last week shows a doubling in full-timers from 34,700 in 1990 to 66,400 in 1992 and in part-timers from 14,...
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Oxford Brookes student, David Allison
(Photograph) - Fly me: Oxford Brookes student David Allison, who will represent Britain in the European Gliding Championships in Poland this July, is desperately in need of sponsorship.
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CVCP seeks health and safety cash
Vice chancellors are bidding for an extra Pounds 350 million in the next public spending round to meet the rising cost of health, safety, and disabled access. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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York pins hopes on huge expansion
York University, one of the smallest "old" universities, could become one of the largest if plans are approved for a threefold increase in students. Numbers could rise from 5,000 to 16,000. The...
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Higher kite
Thames Valley University is soaring over intellectual boundaries with a new course which can earn you five credit points towards a BA degree: "Kites and Kite Flying". What vital technique does it...
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Royal decree
London Guildhall University has probably never received as commanding a call to attention as the one in The Guardian last week. The university was told, along with the Home Office and the general...
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Clue do
A professor of English has shown that he can beat scientists and engineers when it comes to external consultancy work. Since it stands to reason that Graham Caie, professor at Glasgow University's...