English flock to join the clans
Scotland's role as a net importer of students has been confirmed by figures from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council showing that a fifth of Scotland's 118,500 full-time and sandwich...
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Europe's chemists join forces
Europe faces a serious threat to its highly successful chemical industry and must combat it with a common research and development policy for chemistry and chemical engineering, according to a report...
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Missed mission
Educated by missionaries, then into the army at the age of 18. Just the sort of education guaranteed to produce the ideal citizen in these morally challenged times - or so you would think from some...
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Jammy job
At a time when a PhD at the very least is needed for the lowliest academic appointment, an obituary in Edinburgh University's staff bulletin harks back to halcyon days. Stuart Piggot, one of the...
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Pay battle steps up
Ballot papers are to be sent to more than 37,000 lecturers in the old universities, marking the second phase and a potentially major escalation in the dispute over pay. Both the examinations and...
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A-level English passes off the mark
More than 5,000 English A-level candidates were awarded invalid and inflated grades in 1996, with many candidates given passes when they should have failed. The Oxford and Cambridge School...
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Foetal position
(Photograph) - Foetal position: As Parliament prepares to debate the second reading of a bill designed to tighten the 1967 Abortion Act, Pro-Life groups eager to propel the issue up the political...
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Dogs reservoir
Good news for collectors of the academic acronym with the creation of a new designation, that of Directors Of Graduate Study in the graduate school at Royal Holloway, University of London. No doubt...
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Alas poor unknown soldier
(Photograph) - Alas poor unknown soldier: Anthea Boylston, biological anthropologist at Bradford University holds one of 50 500-year-old skulls of Lancastrian soldiers recently unearthed in Tadcaster...
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Pay-as-you-go favoured
Students and employers would make a bigger contribution to higher education funding under one of three financial models for the future of the sector being considered by Sir Ron Dearing's committee of...
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Scientists get teaching ideas mail base
Science lecturers will soon be able to use new technology to exchange tips on teaching. Jonathan Ling, director of studies for physics and astronomy at the University of Hertfordshire, is...
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Malaysia relaxes rules on university entry
THE RURAL poor in Malaysia are expected to be the main beneficiaries of the relaxation of entry requirements to local universities. About 40 per cent of school leavers could go to university...
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Algerian strikers stay out
MANY strike-hit universities in Algeria failed to reopen in the New Year despite triumphant claims by the authorities of a "progressive resumption of work". Since the end of October most universities...
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00 VII?
Was Leonardo Da Vinci Machiavelli's informer? Tim Cornwell examines the evidence. A new book by a political philosopher reads, in stretches, like a CIA hunt for a double-agent within its ranks. A...
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Librarians ready to fight cutbacks
Library staff members of the Association of University Teachers are to campaign against further Government cuts in the face of what they described as "savage cuts" to university library funding....