Majoring mayor: Jacqueline Abbott
(Photograph) - Majoring mayor: Jacqueline Abbott, a BA student at Thames Valley University, is taking her finals this summer and also became Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham last week.
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ROPA Pounds 50m
Science minister David Hunt has announced that nearly Pounds 50 million has been allocated for 473 new Realising Our Potential Awards, a scheme which rewards researchers who are doing cooperative...
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Calling Germany
Birmingham University has established 16 scholarships for German students in a bid to attract highly qualified candidates across a wide range of disciplines, from African history to metallurgy. They...
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Lecturer charged
A 32-year-old Oxford lecturer has been charged with the theft of a first edition book by Sir Isaac Newton from the Christ Church College library. The book, which dates back to 1687, is believed to be...
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Ex-lecturer to head troubled college
Derby College Wilmorton has appointed a former lecturer as principal. David Croll left the college in 1983, before it was re-organised as a tertiary college and before the high-profile inquiry which...
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Cash injection
Aberdeen University has won Pounds 300,000 from the international pharmaceutical group Glaxo Wellcome for a diabetes laboratory within its new institute of medical sciences, which will bring together...
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Pounds 6m summer bonus for six
Half a dozen higher education institutions are likely to share the Pounds 6 million on offer for pilot programmes testing the use of the summer semester. Only around ten bids to explore the...
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Peers protest at threat to academic freedom
Peers joined forces with vice chancellors last week to fend off a new threat to academic freedom. Members of the House of Lords used the second reading of the Disability Discrimination Bill on Monday...
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Saturday shopping
The most controversial statement at this year's Natfhe conference in Torquay came not from a delegate or speaker but from the mayor of Torbay. In her opening speech she said: "I see there are a lot...
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Scottish teaching to get Pounds 1m boost
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is launching a Pounds 1 million initiative to help improve the quality of teaching in Scotland's 21 higher education institutions. In a thorough analysis...
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Bloody well
Glasgow Caledonian University, hoping to raise public awareness of the need to check for high blood pressure, found a suitable case for treatment in its publicity material - actor Richard Wilson,...
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Gender clash
The National Union of Students' women's campaign group is set to clash with the Islamic fundamentalist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir over racial, lesbian and gay and women's issues at a rally in...
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Theft charge
Simon Heighes, the Oxford don and baroque music expert, has been charged with the theft of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, worth Pounds 67,500, from the library at Christ Church. He was...
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A book for the bobby on the beat
"Well, Sarge, I was proceeding in a westerly direction down Green Street when I was struck by this matrix management theory." This might seem an unlikely storyline for ITV's police soap The Bill, but...
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Double vision
(Photograph) - Double vision: Colleagues have presented Harold Hankins, who retires at the end of this month after 12 years as principal and vice chancellor of UMIST, with a portrait of himself by...