V-cs transfixed by the other national lottery
Huw Richards, in the first of a four-part series, evaluates the impact of the Research Assessment Exercise for 1996. The Research Assessment Exercise enters its fourth incarnation next year amid...
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Otters tracked from droppings
Otter droppings and grouse feathers will allow scientists to help Scottish wildlife conservationists. An ecological molecular genetics laboratory opened this week at Aberdeen University, bringing...
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Nutritionist's food for thought
Nutritionists are so plagued by pressures from industry, governments and funding agencies that their science would appear "unacceptably relativist" to other disciplines, according to Prakash Shetty,...
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Coastal college changeover
The University College Scarborough swapped its allegiance from Leeds University to York this week in a move which reflects the sea change in relations between universities and their colleges. George...
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Worm turns muck into grass
One of the gardener's best friends, the worm, will face the formidable challenge next spring of converting a mixture of sewage sludge and colliery soil into relatively fertile soil. The task for the...
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Spill the beans... We need your views on these questions
1 Should expansion in participation in post-16 education continue? How far should expansion go? 2 What role should post-16 education play in developing a modern, competitive economy? 3 Tuition fees...
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College escapes fatal past
Concordia University seems on the road back to stability after three years of turmoil which began with the shooting deaths of four professors by a colleague and continued with a substantial turnover...
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Flood of foreign students predicted
Australia is facing a huge expansion in the number of fee-paying foreign students seeking places over the next 15 years, according to a new survey. The study predicts a five-fold increase in overseas...
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Assistants protest over lack of security
Lecturers in dispute over working conditions held up protest banners at the University of Barcelona's ceremony to mark the opening of the new academic year. At the neighbouring Pompeu y Fabre...
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Marks are challenged
A wrangle over the results of special university entrance exams in Portugal is spilling over into the enrolment season which ends in November. Since publication of the results and initial allocation...
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Statue angers Albanians
The unveiling of a statue to 19th-century Serbian scholar Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic at the University of Pristina in Kosovo has angered ethnic Albanians, who make up more than 90 per cent of the...
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Dangerous elision of European Liaison
We have read with interest the contribution of Diana Green about "Europe's Quality Wave" (THES, September 13), in which she refers to the quality audit programme of the CRE (Association of European...
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Students entitled to free prescriptions
Following the article "Poor students rush for advice" (THES, September 22) our advice centre has been flooded with enquiries and calls from students who wished to know why we had not made them aware...
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Private colleges put down roots
A third of universities in Russia are now privately run, according to Incorvuz, an organisation campaigning for greater educational plurality in the Confederation of Independent States and the Baltic...