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The Council for Industry and Higher Education has called for a national investigation in to how employers can increase opportunities for students to use workplaces as raw material for learning.
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Cranfield shelves resources centre bid
Another bidder for the Overseas Development Administration's research arm has fallen by the wayside. Cranfield University has pulled out of the competition to buy the Natural Resources Institute, to...
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Video nasty
Coming soon to a cinema near you? Probably not, but the Higher Education Funding Council for England is making a video explaining the allocation process. Based on one of the books that did not quite...
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Moon man seeks money for ideas
A sizeable chunk of Government spending on science and technology should go on funding a "big idea" such as improving air quality or eradicating a disease, according to a policy paper from the...
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Foreign tongues
Is the Nolan committee's travelling roadshow beginning to suffer from jet lag? After visiting Cardiff two weeks ago, the committee last week headed north of the border, where one member of the...
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News hounded
At least one vice chancellor has been reflecting that the grass is always greener on the other side as a result of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals unprecedented and somewhat vertigo-...
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Professor attacks English A level
A leading academic is calling for a review of A-level English syllabuses amid claims that school pupils are increasingly poorly read. Martin Dodsworth of Royal Holloway College, University of London...
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Mad career move
It has been long suspected, long joked about, and now psychiatrists have finally admitted it. At the winter meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists last week there was a session for trainees...
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Yes sir, quote me
Among the most vigorous participants in the debate over funding options has been Derek Fraser, vice chancellor of Teesside. Possibly in gratitude for his quotability, The Times and The Daily...
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Browned off
Alumnus to be proud of No 30 is Cedric Brown, the British Gas man and life- imitates-art incarnation of Harry Enfield's most famous concept, who received awesome amounts of cash this week in return...
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Call for standards in languages
An expert in foreign language teaching has called for national standards in student achievement following evidence that graduates' linguistic abilities vary enormously. Jim Coleman, professor of...
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Hypnosis finds safe haven in Sheffield
The power of hypnosis to send people into trancelike states has not attracted enough serious research, according to Michael Heap of Sheffield University's centre for psychotherapeutic studies. Dr...
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California regents' row may be copied
University of California president Richard Atkinson last month pushed the issue of affirmative action to the brink of open warfare with his own board of regents. A highly public squabble over his...
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Papua murder fuels crisis
The murder of two academics and two students in separate incidents at the University of Papua New Guinea over the past year has created a sense of crisis as students return to their studies for the...
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Hooray Heinrichs set up fascist-free club
Germany's archaic men-only student fraternities, with a reputation for fencing, drinking and extremist rightwing views, are under attack from within their own ranks. Eight of the country's 100...