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The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Big worry is study not cash
Students are suffering greater stress from course difficulties than from financial problems, according to a psychology lecturer. Evelyn Monks of Glasgow Caledonian University found that the majority...
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Other conquests
I was interested to read in your Antithesis column (THES, September 13) the piece headlined "Norman's conquest". Contrary to your comment, Foster and Partners have been employed by no fewer than...
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Parma condemns lack of chances
The Council of Europe finds HE guilty of inequality, says Olga Wojtas. Higher education in Europe is guilty of reflecting and reinforcing inequalities in society, and should instead itself become a...
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David Miller appointed chairman of Scottish Qualifications Authority
David Miller, chairman of the Scottish Examination Board and the Scottish Vocational Education Council, has been appointed chairman of the new Scottish Qualifications Authority, which will take over...
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Governors vote out college chairman
The chairman of governors at a further education college has been forced to resign. George Mardle, a Keele University lecturer and chairman of Social Services at Staffordshire County Council, failed...
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A battle of Wills
Former enfant terrible of Shakespearean scholars Terence Hawkes is now part of the establishment, but a new battleground is emerging. It was all very civilised. In the Shakespeare Institute in...
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Beware of school bias
The decision to form single agencies to oversee non-university qualifications may not be good news. It involves dangers that need to be considered in advance. The Qualifications and National...
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Love in a bold climate
"I'm a revolutionary," the student activist Rudi Dutschke told the young American theology student Gretchen Klotz shortly after their first meeting in Berlin in 1964. Revolutionaries had to be...
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Job scheme claims an 85 per cent success rate
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Lib Dems target students in marginals
Liberal Democrats have been urged by their party to capture student support in key seats with a "kick the Tories out" message. Neil Fawcett, party agent for Oxford West and Abingdon, told delegates...
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20,000 leaks under the sea?
A great lake under the ocean is oneof many schemes devised by scientists to cut carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and hence reduce global warming. But will such technofixes create new dangers?....
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Dial link gives access to Janet
A nationwide dial-up service will soon allow all universities and research councils to access the academic research computer network Janet. The service will be provided by Warrington-based Internet...
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Wonderful weirs save Cornish wetlands from running out of water
The largest lowland heath and wetlands area in the south-west has been saved from running dry by Plymouth University researchers. Geographical scientists and civil engineers from the university have...