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Net users take fast line to new jobs
Use of The THES Internet Service increased by half as the online service, offering job advertisements, summaries of the newspaper's contents, and other resources, entered its second week. The busiest...
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Funders delay quality plan
Vice chancellors are facing further delays before they can discuss the Higher Education Funding Council for England's proposals for a single quality body. The funding council is committed to...
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Help for contract staff
Proposals for the career management of contract research staff in universities are close to being finalised by the research councils. Kenneth Edwards, chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors...
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Research cash shortfall
Oxford University is filing a complaint to the Office of Science and Technology over the research councils' handling of claims for research project costs. The university says it has lost Pounds 3...
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Job cuts spark strike threat
Lecturers at Chelmsford further education college are threatening to take industrial action over an "unfair" programme of cuts which will make about one in six teaching staff redundant but leave...
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Brunel kingdom
West London Institute of Higher Education is to be formally incorporated into Brunel University to become Brunel University College next Wednesday. The move follows four years of negotiations and...
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Good neighbour
A former neighbour of a medical researcher at Dundee University, has unexpectedly bequeathed Pounds 350,000 to boost the university's Medical Research Council unit work on cancer and nervous diseases...
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Teacher sums
The Scottish Office has cut intakes to secondary teacher education courses by almost 200 to 1,210 in the coming session, and slightly boosted primary intakes by 50 to 1,050. Some new teachers are...
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Ropa lassoes research councils to cause
Science minister David Hunt has announced the expansion of a Government scheme encouraging collaboration between industry and researchers. The Realising Our Potential Award, known as Ropa, launched...
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College appeals in race case
Kingsway College, a further education college in central London found guilty of racial discrimination at an industrial tribunal last November, is to appeal. Farhad Shahrokni, a maths and computer...
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Drugs and crime link
A clear link exists between persistent criminal behaviour by young offenders and high levels of drug use, according to Mike Collison of Keele University's department of criminology. But it is not the...
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Business of false budgets
Double-entry book-keeping has a special meaning at Copenhagen's School of Economics and Business Administration. The school has knowingly presented false budgets to the ministry of education to...
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Credit linked grants rejected
German student groups have called on the newly elected Federal Parliament to address a "long overdue increase in student grants as quickly as possible". Suggestions that students could be taken off...
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Namibia budget boost
Vice chancellor Peter Katjavivi hopes an increased budget will end the still rumbling dispute at the University of Namibia which led to a student march to the home of President Sam Nujoma last May....