Quick fix, poor quality
The Higher Education Funding Council for England proposals for the development of quality assurance received a pretty severe mauling by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. The strong...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday. Three days before I am officially back on the payroll after maternity leave. It takes an hour to come round from a night of sleep broken by my ten-week-old son. Spend this hour over...
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God's timely revenge
The discovery of my own weakness was the first symptom of taste" - Edward Gibbon's words must spring to mind when anyone is courageous enough to speak about the relationship of the universal and the...
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Safe sex, safer publishers
A study found that images in safer sex material reinforce the social construction of men as sexually active and adventurous and of women as sexually uninterested and passive. But the images were...
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Martha Elwell
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When the Earth boils
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in volcanic eruptions over the past few years. To mitigate future disasters Hazel Rymer says we need to understand and recognise the signs of an impending...
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KGB haunts Iliescu
Ion Iliescu, Romania's president, has been forced to appeal to his old university, the Institute of Power Engineering in Moscow, to provide proof that he was not recruited by Stalin's secret police...
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University for cars
The UK motor industry is looking to establish a "virtual university" to help it stay level with world competition in the 21st century. If the virtual university becomes a reality, managers at more...
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Axe lifted from labs
The Government is about to drop radical proposals to reorganise research council institutes geographically and create managers responsible for cutting public laboratories. The U-turn features in a...
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It shouldn't happen
Veterinary schools have failed in all but one case to win money earmarked by the Wellcome Trust to develop centres of research excellence in veterinary medicine. The failure illustrates a weakness of...
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Student handouts
The Department for Education plans to spend Pounds 2,095 million on mandatory awards and Pounds 644 million on student loans in the 1995/96 academic year, according to a written answer in Hansard...
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EU proposes adult education vouchers
Euro MPs have called for the introduction of adult education vouchers to create a more flexible and accessible service. Local authorities or institutions could issue vouchers to the local adult...
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Overseas students bring UK Pounds 1 billion
Overseas students generate Pounds 1 billion for the national economy, including Pounds 310 million in fees paid directly to British universities. There are more than 100,000 international students in...
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Tough decision
Who makes the really important decisions, like who should fill the new post of chief executive of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals? The Higher Education Funding Council, perhaps?...
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Cutting comment
Congratulations to the Ocean Drilling Program which the Natural Enviroment Research Council writes, is "at the cutting edge of ocean science".