Freebie deal
(Photograph) - Freebie deal: Students at the University of Plymouth's new Pounds 14 million Robbins hall of residence have ended a nine-week rent strike in return for a Pounds ,000 rent cut and...
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Bond bears private strings
The rush by universities to the door of the money markets, which began in earnest last week when Lancaster University became the first higher education institution to launch a bond scheme, could lead...
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Three times lucky
(Photograph) - Three times lucky: Ian Springford, an architecture student at Edinburgh College of Art, has won first, second and third prizes in the graduates' section of the international 1995 OASYS...
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Government rules on primates
Primates caught in the wild are to be banned for use in research, the Government has announced. And regulations on the use of captive-bred primates are to be tightened. But anti-vivisection groups...
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Auto industry launches star wars for cars
Three research councils are to give millions of pounds to a 15-year national programme to boost the United Kingdom's standing as a world leader in high-technology road vehicle manufacture. The...
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Quickie novel
Luton University politics lecturer Pat Gray this week won the World One Day Novel Cup. Mr Gray wrote his 20,000-word The Political Map of the Heart, which is about his childhood in Belfast, in just...
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Oxford upgrade
Oxford University dons and senior administrators have backed proposals for a promotions policy that will create hundreds of new professors and readers. A postal ballot of members of the university's...
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LibDems' research plan
The research selectivity exercise should be scrapped and replaced with a new share-the-wealth formula for research funding, suggests Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman. A big...
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Scots FE colleges forced to cut staffing
The threat of compulsory redundancies is looming in Scotland's further education colleges following the latest funding allocations from the Scottish Office Education Department. Falkirk College of...
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Popper's library auctioned
The library of London School of Economics philosopher Sir Karl Popper, which is to be sold by Sotheby's, is expected to fetch Pounds 500,000. Austrian-born Sir Karl, who died last year aged 92,...
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Search starts for degree standard
Has every holder of a British university degree achieved the same universal standard? The long process of deciding whether minimum, or threshold, standards can be defined for all graduates within and...
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Heads in the clouds
(Photograph) - Heads in the clouds: Scientists from UMIST are busy vacuuming up the rain before it falls on the Cumbrian Fells. The 2,780ft Great Dun Fell in the Pennines is an ideal location for the...
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Trend sinister
Following concerns that female medics face discrimination in taking up a career in surgery, is positive discrimination urgently needed for another under-represented group - left-handers? In the...
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More readers for Cambridge
Cambridge's annual quota of readers - a senior research-oriented post just below the level of professor - is to rise 30 per cent in an effort to enhance the university's position in the 1996 research...