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Cambridge's annual quota of readers - a senior research-oriented post just below the level of professor - is to rise 30 per cent in an effort to enhance the university's position in the 1996 research...
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Line of sight
The Secretary of State for Employment may think he is divinely inspired, but do the vice chancellors of Britain's universities have to swallow the story? Today the Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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Right balance
Rather more the PAC's sort of thing was the conversation a year or two back between two principals of further education colleges. One expressed a degree of amazement that the other had left his...
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Off the map
Those Marriott Hotel advertisements that have succeeded, by excluding Wales, Ireland and Scotland from their map of the British Isles, in annoying the Celtic fringes on a scale previously only...
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Parliament to debate 16 to 19s
The National Commission on Education's report on reforming post-school learning is to be debated at a major parliamentary inquiry into 16 to 19 provision. The report, Learning to Succeed After 16*, (...
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Lords told of science career obstacles
Many young academic scientists are being denied the career security necessary to help them become established, the Medical Research Council told the Lords this week. Sir Dai Rees, MRC chief executive...
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Alas poor Celt
(Photograph) - Alas poor Celt: Archaeologist Bob Watts holds a severed human skull, possibly a Celtic sacrifice, found around Malham Tarn in the Yorkshire Dales. University of Bradford staff are...
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Probe into why doctors drop out
The British Medical Association is drawing up plans to follow the careers of 500 medical students to discover why up to a quarter drop out of the profession three years after qualifying. One possible...
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Vice chancellors' pay
Huw Richards surveys the information currently available on top people's pay in institutions for 1993/94 In the notes which accompany the financial statement, balance sheet and auditors' report for...
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Nationalism's healthy state
"Ten years ago, everyone wanted to study Marxism. Today, it is nationalism and ethnicity." So said Brendan O'Leary, lecturer at the London School of Economics, at the fifth annual conference of the...
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Supercrete to rule world
A world of half-mile high skyscrapers has come closer with the development of a new super concrete at Dundee University. "Nothing can touch this material. It has amazing properties," said Rod Jones...
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Church colleges baiting a `sectarian ideology' trap
Gordon McGregor's article on church colleges' bid to become universities (THES, October 14) is, one hopes, the nadir of recent "developments" in higher education. His answer to the question of what...
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`Brokers' pocket poll winnings
After poll day came pay day for university "brokers" at German universities who speculated on the result of the country's general election on a stock exchange for voters. In the months running up to...
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German taboo breaks on fees
Student fees are back on the political agenda in Germany -- this time with more support than ever. University rectors from the states of Baden-Wurttemberg and Bavaria prompted the debate last week by...