Showdown over FE jobs
Ninety jobs are to go at Rotherham College of Arts and Technology following the failure of a recovery plan worked out last year. The majority of the redundancies are expected to be compulsory....
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On a clear day you can see to the multiplex
The citizens of Oxford may soon see new bingo halls, bowling alleys and car parks among their dreaming spires. Lucy Hodges asks whether colleges keen to profit from their land are responsible. Oxford...
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Martian visitors killed our dog
Is there life on Mars, albeit in a primitive form, and could it make the journey to Earth? It may already be here, reports Martin Ince. Frequent flyers say that a good landing is one you can walk...
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Ceredigion FE College
Ceredigion FE College in West Wales is to close its Felinfach campus this summer. Felinfach, which houses the college's agricultural department, has been declared unviable after making losses of...
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Kingston wrests longer nurse training contract from NHS
Kingston University has succeeded in winning a contract of almost double the normal length with the National Health Service for its new nurse training department. University spokesmen say that the...
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Forsyth thumbs up to Islands
Michael Forsyth, Secretary of State for Scotland, has unexpectedly backed plans for a University of the Highlands and Islands, previously cold- shouldered by the Scottish Office, writes Olga Wojtas....
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Across the Finnish line
This week will see the state visit to Britain of the Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari and his wife Eeva. The ripples from this four-day event should encourage the expanding academic traffic between...
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Dr Peccadillo and assorted sins
The plagiarist, the fraudster and the cheat may be rare in academe, but that still leaves scope for some dubious practices, says Harold Hillman. Scientific fraud has been going on since the Greeks...
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Book move may net VAT
Joe Sinyor (THES, October 6) is correct to assume that the collapse of the Net Book Agreement will have a marginal impact on the price of core textbooks. My concern is that in the short to medium...
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Mature apprentice seeks titled role
Robert Oxtoby argues that institutions that can award degrees should be allowed to call themselves universities. Every now and then during the past 150 years, the higher education community in...
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Bengali Brahmin meets Berkeley
Bharati Mukherjee tells Ronald Warwick about her transformation from high-caste Indian into American writer. I met Bharati Mukherjee in Holland where she was launching the Dutch translation of her...
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Leeds censors access to Internet
Leeds University has decided to withdraw access to a range of Internet newsgroups because of their "appalling" content, which computer staff say often includes pornographic material. But some...
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Surprise rise in intake could bring penalties
Early estimates from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service indicate that there has been a 6.4 per cent increase in admissions for this academic year compared to 1994/95. This means that...
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Whites-only row for Rhodes
Ten Rhodes scholars from southern Africa have arrived in Oxford to begin their studies and there is not a black face among them. Members of the Rhodes Scholarship Southern African Forum, which...
