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Through keyhole
Scottish preoccupations with devolution and self-empowerment have reached the realms of medicine, at least in the north-east. To help to liberate you from the authorities, Aberdeen University...
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Judgement day
The University of Cambridge's Latinists were at full stretch last week for the university's new batch of honorary degrees (see page 1), since the nomination speeches are performed in both English and...
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Call for chemistry shake-up
Many chemistry departments cannot survive in their present form, says a report by the Royal Society of Chemistry. There are too many undergraduate places; insufficient money to keep up the research...
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College evicts theatre company
At the end of next month the Soho Theatre Company will make a final exit from London's Cockpit Theatre, its home for the past four years, after a bitter row with landlords The City of Westminster...
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Sheffield gets double honours
The two most senior post-holders at Sheffield Hallam University emerged with honours in the Queen's Birthday list, which saw a host of awards for services to further and higher education. Sheffield...
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Scientists patently poor at capitalising on new ideas
A decade of Government policy aimed at helping university scientists to become more adept at commercial exploitation of their work has failed to improve their knowledge and expertise in the use of...
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External examiner reform
The Higher Education Quality Council is consulting universities on fundamental reform of the external examiner system - reform the council argues is vital if the system is to be of any value in the...
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Snags appear over franchises
Colleges are crying out for guidance in the wake of the Handsworth College report. Alison Utley reports "The rapid growth has taxed the college's ability to manage and control the effective delivery...
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Luton's career vision is strictly personal
Luton is not a main stop on the milkround. It is not on the beaten track of blue chip companies chasing brilliant undergraduates. Yet the evidence suggests that this newest of English universities...
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Science 'losing its cutting edge'
Big changes in the way science is practised is leading to a new framework for the production of knowledge that could mean a decline in scientific objectivity, according to physicist and science...
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Police probe fake racist letter
More than 200 copies of an extreme anti-Semitic letter falsely claiming to be from the warden of Lincoln Theological College have been sent to police by incensed recipients. College warden Canon...
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Cash calls tune for admissions
Access to higher education is becoming "access by ability to pay" throughout western, central and eastern Europe, according to a study of under-representation in European higher education. "Other...
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Ozone blamed for shorter crops
Air pollution in the fast-growing cities of the third world may be stunting their food crops by 40 per cent, researchers at Imperial College have found. This poses serious problems because the...