Me and my shadow MP build some bridges
Shadowing is helping to bridge the gap between MPs and universities. The scheme, initiated by the Parliamentary University Group, aims to provide an opportunity for MPs and universities to discover...
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Disco Gold: John Tomlinson
(Photograph) - Disco Gold: John Tomlinson, head of department at Glasgow School of Art, won second prize with this photograph in the college winners 'category in the 1996 Fujifilm student awards
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Stars in her eyes
(Photograph) - Stars in her eyes: Hazel Hall, single parent of two, has just been awarded a first-class honours on the part-time BA fine art course at the Canterbury College of the Kent Institute of...
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Circling around the Dearing ring
The gradual clarification of Labour's ideas on English regional governance may well provide a context for at least some of the issues which the Dearing committee will need to address. Having spent 25...
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Japanese enjoy their tipples too
Russians dying for a drink" by Zhores Medvedev (THES, July 12) contains a number of inaccurate comparisons making reference to Japan. Japanese living standards are not lower than those of Americans...
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Material girls
(Photograph) - Material girls: Danielle Russell (left) was one of the Bradford and Ilkley Community College fashion students to model clothes used in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice at the...
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Rectors reject fees for students
German university rectors have overwhelmingly rejected plans to introduce student fees, throwing open the debate over desperately needed reform of higher education funding. Student fees are "not a...
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Only here for the cheap beer
Growing student debt is pulling in profits for Britain's student unions as hard-up undergraduates flock to campus watering holes for cheaper beer, union managers have claimed. Figures from SUSOC, the...
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European funding probed
The Government has launched an investigation into an English higher education institution's claims for European funding. Secrecy surrounds the inquiry by the Department for Education and Employment's...
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Oh baby
(Photograph) - Middlesex University first-class graduate Kate Carrick exhibits a baby baked out of dough at the university's fine art show.
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Medical review about posts not individuals
Your leader and article on the senior management review at the Medical Research Council (THES, June 14) contained inaccuracies and misconceptions. The reviews of all seven research councils were not...
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Two-tone cash call
In successive weeks, the Higher Education Funding Council for England is putting out its major consultation documents on the two main things academics are meant to do - teaching and research. The two...
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Degree system for scrapheap
The classified honours degree system should be scrapped, academics and higher education managers have concluded. It is out of step with a mass higher education sector and the need for more explicit...