Hear, hear and over there
Samuel Beer discerns the Americanisation of British politics and the decline of party government. Recently a British journalist recalled that Baroness Thatcher had once said that it would be a great...
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Our noble cause
David Cannadine argues that their lordships have gained prestige just as the Commoners have lost it. After the general election of 1945, as after the "People's Budget" of 1909, there were those who...
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V-cs redraft quality reply
The council of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals last week tore up a draft letter to the Education Secretary, Gillian Shephard on the Higher Education Funding Council for England's...
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Access denied money
Thousands of access students expecting to receive the Pounds 1,000-a-year mature students' allowance have had their hopes dashed despite an apparent reprieve earlier this year. In March, the...
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Mergers knocked
Gordon Kirk, principal of Moray House Institute of Education, has attacked "mergermania," saying that it was dangerous to maintain that economies of scale could be achieved by merging smaller units...
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Sunny future
(Photograph) - Sunny future: Mark Thurston, an Exeter University engineering graduate, displays his final-year project. He linked a computer programme providing the exact angles to an engraving...
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City goes local
City and Islington College became the first inner London FE college to sign a local agreement with staff this week. As well as giving set weekly and annual teaching hours, the contract takes in broad...
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Why drop-outs go off course
A new university's analysis of student drop-out rates suggests the reasons are more varied and complex than simply student hardship. Financial problems were the main factors cited by the Committee of...
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Clean sweep
John Barnes, Ken Minogue, Pat Dunleavy, George Jones, several hundred exceedingly bright students . . . the London School of Economics list of those with specialist political expertise, some with...
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Gobbled Gaelic
Dundee University is searching for a postgraduate native Gaelic speaker to salvage its project to develop a Gaelic-speaking computer. Dundee's MicroCentre, world famous for its communication systems...
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Ta-ra Tarango
Higher Education As An Aid to Sporting Behaviour No 2: Jeff Tarango, the American tennis player who self-destructed so spectacularly on court at Wimbledon, was formerly a student at Stanford...
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Bread and butter
Labour's higher education spokesman Bryan Davies was pleased to find no sign of the high life some used to associate with the Student Loans Company - although he came away from a recent visit feeling...
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AUT brushes up Euro lobby
The Association of University Teachers is to ask staff with expertise to monitor European programmes and report back to the Commission on their effectiveness. The move follows an AUT seminar on...
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Director makes job U-turn
Southampton Institute is seeking redundancies just days after director David Leyland, publicly assured staff that their jobs were safe. The U-turn comes as the institute's Natfhe branch released a...