Spot the hidden costs
Are plans for quality assurance heralded in a new report on the right lines? Three readers think not. After encouraging rumours of a "lighter touch", the first report of the joint planning group on...
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Hot-Docs take Bayrou to task
With just three weeks to go before a self-imposed deadline for unveiling his university reform plans, the French education minister revealed nothing in last week's parliamentary debate on the...
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Clues to third cancer gene
The team that isolated the second breast cancer gene last year has evidence that there is a third breast cancer gene. Mike Stratton, of the Institute of Cancer Research, said this week that an...
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Leyland survives to face more flak
David Leyland, director of Southampton Institute, last week won a confidential vote of confidence at an emergency governors' meeting by what one governor called "a slim majority". Lecturers' union...
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Carry on Gardiner
Alumnus to be proud of no. 51 is Sir George Gardiner, Conservative (of a very distinctive sort) MP for Reigate. A former confidant and hagiographer of Margaret Thatcher, his threat to resign in the...
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Cool for kids
(Photograph) - Amy Staunton's fashion prediction for childrens-wear in the near future won her Pounds 4,320 in this year's Royal Society of Arts student design awards. Ms Staunton, aged 21, is a...
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Dropped out
One in ten of London's homeless living in hostels are graduates, according to a survey by The St Mungo Community Housing Association. The survey of 224 hostel residents aged over 21 found that the...
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Belt and braces hold up show
Are plans for quality assurance heralded in a new report on the right lines? Three readers think not. The structure of my teaching is overseen by a hierarchy of at least three different committees....
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Chair for thought
Oxford University has received a Pounds 350,000 benefaction in support of the chair of European thought at Balliol College. The five-year benefaction comes from a British businessman. The chair will...
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Can the man?
Once more unto the beach dear friends, but before that comes yet another annual rite, the 1996 THES Examination Howler competition. (Yes, another year really has gone by already). This was won last...
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Risk business set to boom
Thinking on risk has come some way since a paper, published by a British government organisation in the 1970s, attempted to show the risks of renewable energy by calculating, for example, how many...
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Budget gloom raises spectre of study levy
The threat of a levy on new home students is moving steadily back into sight as hopeful bids are submitted for the next public spending round and an increasing number of universities, often...
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Lecturer plastered
There's nothing quite like having your own living visual aid on stage with you during a high-powered seminar. Lucky in this respect at a recent Keele University seminar were Peter Jones, professor of...
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Books and jobs don't mix
More than three quarters of undergraduates at Southampton Institute are working to support themselves through their studies, according to new figures. And 41 per cent are working full-time....