GPs lured to research
General practitioners should be enticed into academic research by means of "distinction awards" given to those who reach a senior level, according to the higher education funding councils and the...
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Internet text
The National Commission on Education report, Learning to Succeed - After 16, reported in this week's Further Education Synthesis, page iv, is available in full via The THES Internet Service. It can...
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All dressed up with nowhere to go
(Photograph) - All dressed up with nowhere to go: Opera students Emma Turnbull and Douglas Telfer from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, in costume for Le Mariage aux...
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Four-letter word
Keele University vice chancellor, professor Brian Fender, HEFCE chief executive in waiting, has revealed one of the high-powered doctrines he regards as crucial to the development of higher education...
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Fortune nookie
Dr Ng Man-lun, reader in psychiatry at the University of Hong Kong, is urging women on mainland China to take more than one husband as a solution to the shortage of wives, according to a report in...
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Welsh rare bit
We have always known that students were different. But quite how different was not apparent before a letter in last weekend's Wales on Sunday about plans to reschedule the Welsh Football League. M....
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Colleges falter as principals flourish
Nearly 50 further education colleges are in the red although reserves held across the 457-college sector amount to Pounds 238 million. The Public Accounts Committee heard this week that the Further...
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Vocational yardstick `too crude for equal opportunity'
Vocational A-level students applying for higher education places are at a disadvantage because the grading system for the new qualification is too crude, admissions chiefs say. Most academic...
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Vision of a healthy future
Gareth Roberts, the chairman-elect of the CVCP, sets out his agenda to Huw Richards. The Committee for Vision, Clout and Partnership". Well, perhaps not. But in conjuring up a new version of those...
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Colleges wrestle with futility of `efficiency'
There are fears that "efficient" colleges are being penalised by the fur-ther education funding regime as forecasts of hundreds of redundancies start to come true. The most common reason given by...
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Programme logs on to languages
Cataloguing the languages of the world on computer is the ambitious intention of the international Logosphere programme. Fin-anced by the Leverhulme Trust, it was established by the Observatoire...
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Isolation and cost batter rural learning
A growing crisis in rural adult education is being caused by lack of resources and the diversity and isolation of communities, a series of case studies by the University of Sussex has found....
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Course teaches living with Aids
A cinema professor is teaching Canada's only interdisciplinary Aids course. Thomas Waugh, of Montreal's Concordia University, has been teaching the course since September. Some of his students are...
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University for senior citizens
Student Gunter Honicke became a local celebrity when he completed his MA in history at the University of Hamburg, Germany, in a near record-breaking nine semesters. The secret of his success? Age....