Long road to freedom
A stark picture of university life in Nigeria was painted by Nigerian academic and Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka on his arrival in Paris this week. "The education system is dead," said Mr...
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First annual report of the Chief Inspector of Further Education Funding Council
The first annual report from the Further Education Funding Council's chief inspector, which involved the inspection of more than 100 colleges, has concluded that the sector is "dynamic, responsive...
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Light fingers
(Photograph) - Light fingers: Caught Shoplifting, a painting by John Smith, a student at Loughborough College of Art and Design, was part of the backdrop for the Blackburn Lectures, given at...
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Status bid by colleges queried
Vice chancellors have been unable to come to an agreement on what to do about colleges which use the word "university" in their titles. Instead, a council meeting of the Committee of Vice Chancellors...
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Charities warn lottery will hit donations
Research funding charities are predicting a big drop in income starting this week when the national lottery is launched. The National Kidney Research Fund and the Kidney Foundation, which between...
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Suffer little children ...
Developmental psychologists have had a good press this century. Generally avoiding most Freudian excesses, they have established acceptable, clear guidelines covering the normal stages of physical,...
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The ghost in the machine
Most of us are intrigued by our own consciousness. But reading recent books written by eminent people leaves us baffled by what seems to be a demarcation dispute. The explanation of human...
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AUT aims for uniform pay - but not yet
The THES (November 11) correctly reported that the Association of University Teachers was not in favour of either joint pay scales or joint bargaining for academic and related staffs in "old" and "...
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Don's Diary
Sunday. Car from Anglesey to Manchester, then to Nice via Brussels. At the airport study a 15-page Ministry of Agriculture form on which proposals must be submitted. Seems longer than some research...
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Fat cats in top hats
Here are the dates of foundation of the precursors of the major British government funding agencies for science and higher education: Medical Research Council, 1913; Science and Engineering Research...
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Woman's place
The question of whether attempts should be made to accommodate academic spouses (THES, November 18) when making appointments is difficult. Your academic couples were examples where both members...
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Gongs for the gang
Winners of the first Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Further and Higher Education are published today. The prizes, set up with funds remaining from the Queen's 40th anniversary year celebrations, are...
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Pension penalty clause
In January 1994 I took up a new lecturing appointment with an "old" university and applied to join the Universities Superannuation Scheme. Previously I was employed by a "new" university (formerly...
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Louisiana integrates
Forty years after the historic Brown v Board of Education ruling in the United States that blacks were receiving separate and unequal schooling, states in the South are still segregating university...