Boom in local heroics
For those surfeited with VE Day, neutral Sweden was ideal last weekend. Most Swedes were more concerned by the national ice hockey team's failure in the World Championship final. But there is no...
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MPs' probe
The House of Commons select committee on education is to beef up its annual examination of the Department for Education's expenditure to an investigation of education spending in general. The Higher...
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Status fight
Roehampton Institute is to renew its fight for university status following planning permission to develop its campus for the relocation of the new Southlands College from Wimbledon and the creation...
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Seeing double
Data on home, first-year mature students on higher education courses published in Hansard last week shows a doubling in full-timers from 34,700 in 1990 to 66,400 in 1992 and in part-timers from 14,...
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Oxford pair
Oxford University has announced the creation of two new colleges. Royal Charters have been awarded to Mansfield College and Templeton College, which began as the Oxford Centre for Management Studies...
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Oxford Brookes student, David Allison
(Photograph) - Fly me: Oxford Brookes student David Allison, who will represent Britain in the European Gliding Championships in Poland this July, is desperately in need of sponsorship.
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CVCP seeks health and safety cash
Vice chancellors are bidding for an extra Pounds 350 million in the next public spending round to meet the rising cost of health, safety, and disabled access. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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York pins hopes on huge expansion
York University, one of the smallest "old" universities, could become one of the largest if plans are approved for a threefold increase in students. Numbers could rise from 5,000 to 16,000. The...
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Higher kite
Thames Valley University is soaring over intellectual boundaries with a new course which can earn you five credit points towards a BA degree: "Kites and Kite Flying". What vital technique does it...
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Royal decree
London Guildhall University has probably never received as commanding a call to attention as the one in The Guardian last week. The university was told, along with the Home Office and the general...
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Clue do
A professor of English has shown that he can beat scientists and engineers when it comes to external consultancy work. Since it stands to reason that Graham Caie, professor at Glasgow University's...
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Post haste
The image on the back page of The THES came to you from Europe's latest satellite, down a cascade of high-technology links, as far as the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. But for the last...
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Scots plug computing gap
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is giving more money to computing and information technology in its latest allocation of capital funding. The move follows last year's quality assessment...
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Students to debate funding policy
Student unions around the country have agreed to hold an extraordinary national conference on May 30, when a new funding policy is likely to be adopted. Delegates will debate the results of...