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...
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Scottish students to go still higher
The expansion of higher education is driving other changes in education and training, according to the Edinburgh University's centre for educational sociology. Its Scottish Young People's Survey...
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Fawcett turned full on
On August 11 1994 the world-famous Fawcett Library, in the basement of London Guildhall University's Calcutta House, came within four minutes of "major mould". Heavy rainfall that stopped tube trains...
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Marsden makes scanner advance
A state-of-the-art Pounds 1.5 million magnetic resonance scanner installed this week at the Royal Marsden National Health Service Trust will give cancer researchers better and more detailed...
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Masters in legal studies proposed
A broader and more intellectually rigorous approach to vocational training for lawyers that could usher in a new master's programme, has been proposed by the Lord Chancellor's advisory committee on...
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'A system which eliminates people'
"I think the ideas are good, but it is going very fast. In the long term maybe it will work, but right now it doesn't," says Teresa Le"n, a history student at the University Rovira y Virgili in...
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Hong Kong heaven for academics
Huw Richards's report on The THES-sponsored conference about the future of Hong Kong (THES, March 24) provided little about the kind of future awaiting those planning to remain here post-1997,...
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Vice chancellors' pay
The publication of the league table listing vice chancellors' salaries (THES, March 24) is a reflection of the public expectation of openness about pay for the most senior people in both the public...
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Catching the wave of opportunity
The Council for Industry and Higher Education publishes its advice to the Shephard review today. Patrick Coldstream summarises its report. More young people than ever before now believe that it is...
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'Silent sociologists' speak up
Sociologists are accustomed to periodic journalistic attacks but Walker's article is abstruse, rambling and hopelessly ill-informed. But his rhetorical blast at Anthony Giddens is surely enough to...
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Teacher knows best
Talk about education inevitably incites disagreement and debate. But there is one statement I make which consistently generates approval and consensus: "I never really know something until I have...
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Big universe, little men
Astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan (below) tells Stella Hughes about himself and the cosmos. Cosmic spaghetti, galactic sponges and time machines may all sound rather frivolous, but for the purveyor of...
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The second sex
Gerard McCrum argues that women from state schools are less academically formidable than they were 25 years ago. Why do men dominate the finals lists at both Oxford and Cambridge, scoring...