Clinton's civilian corps gets rough ride
United States politics being an ugly game, it was predictable that Congress Republicans should get accountants to pick apart Bill Clinton's pet AmeriCorps programme. Under the programme, launched by...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. Cycling to the airport, I remember at least five important things I did not do before finishing work. Make two phone calls from departure lounge sorting out three of them. On the plane relive...
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Disposable assets
Should we recycle paper? Roland Clift and David Pearce disagree about the most economical and environmental way of getting rid of rubbish. The paper industry is investing in recycling. The recent...
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Thieves target college accounts
At least six colleges in the south-east were targeted by a sophisticated fraud operation over the summer vacation, it emerged this week. The Further Education Funding Council swung into action on...
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Student digs: A team from Glasgow University Archaeology Research Division
(Photograph) - Student digs: A team from Glasgow University Archaeology Research Division is excavating a very rare Neolithic settlement thought to be more than 5,000 years old in the middle of a...
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Scots funding formula
Following the report (THES, August 11) by your Scottish editor on the comments made by Chris Masters relating to the recently revealed quality assessments, I feel that there are two points which, in...
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Life has always been held cheap
Peter Singer's thesis about changing views of life and death (THES, August 18) is based on a fallacy - that "the traditional sanctity of life ethic" has lasted "for nearly 2,000 years". In fact this...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Arrive in Cape Town for a five-day return visit to five South African universities. In January a number of South African universities came to see us as a good example of a multicultural...
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Vantastic voyage home
(Photograph) - The pop music superstar who advised "No Guru, No Method, No Teacher" is to teach after all. Singer-song writer Van Morrison is to turn his talents to lecturing in his home territory of...
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The river of sorrows
The Indians of the Amazon, remnants of advanced civilisations decimated by genocide and disease, now face extinction. Claude Levi-Strauss revisits photographs he took more than 50 years ago and muses...
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Building bricks
Further education colleges are asking the Chancellor to invest Pounds 40 million a year in new and refurbished buildings to cope with growing student numbers. The Association for Colleges' public...
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Union aims for 3.3 per cent rise
Natfhe is claiming a salary rise of at least 3.3 per cent for its members in higher education, along with commitment to a common pay review with old universities. The union's annual pay claim also...
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Lecturers told to dampen ardour
Love-struck lecturers are to be deterred by union officials from having sex with their students - at least until they graduate. Campus love affairs were condemned by Natfhe's annual conference in...
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Akker joins staff walk-out
Natfhe general secretary John Akker joined a walk-out of staff after the futher education sector conference decided to hold a national ballot on striking over pay. Staff complained that an activist...
