Bannister wins Lottery ticket
Links between higher education and top-class sport are to be strengthened following the National Heritage department's new sports policy. A committee headed by Roger Bannister, former master of...
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Sporting chance
(Photograph) - Sporting chance: Umer Rashid, a first-year student in computing at South Bank University and rising star with Middlesex County Cricket Club, is the sort of player that the initiatives...
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Jump in, the water's lovely
Liverpool's long-term unemployed are being asked to take the plunge into a unique Training for Work course - by starting each session with a jacuzzi. Merseyside Training and Enterprise "positive...
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World View
(Photograph) - World View: A new exhibition The Earth and the Heavens opened earlier this month at the King's Library (within the British Museum, Great Russell Street London WC1) and runs until...
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Race case pays out
Senior law lecturer, Amir Majid, has settled his race discrimination case against London Guildhall University for Pounds 15,000 compensation and a two-year paid sabbatical. In May an industrial...
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Professional help
Lord Henley, the new education and employment minister, has rejected calls for enhanced loans for medical and dental students. Labour and Liberal Democrat peers said that those studying to be doctors...
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Sacked head fights Conservative council
The sacked head of a Buckinghamshire adult education centre is to seek reinstatement at an industrial tribunal. Iris Brooksbank claims she was victimised by her employers after offering student...
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Sussex professor appeals to visitor for senate post
A prominent physics professor has called on the visitor of Sussex University to reinstate him to senate after vice chancellor Gordon Conway cut short his term of office. Norman Dombey, pictured right...
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Research firms hope for funding
Independent research firms are confident that their long battle for access to support from research councils could soon be over. In a report out last week, but finalised several weeks ago, the...
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Safe sun
(Photograph) - Safe sun: Students from Paignton Community College take part in a "Be safe in the sun project" as part of a national pilot for GNVQ health and social care.
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Getting to bottom of beauty
How to solve one of the greatest cosmological mysteries - why matter survived to be around today and was not annihilated at the beginning of the universe - has become clearer with research reported...
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Sitting comfortably
While 16 years of Conservative rule have been blamed by some for Britain's brain drain, there is an argument that it has helped keep some pretty useful talent in our universities. John Ramsden, about...
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Wise owls
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council recently hosted a celebratory lunch for all those departments which had achieved an excellent rating in its teaching quality assessments. But there has...
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Innkeeping with success
(Photograph) - Innkeeping with success: Alexandria Gardiner and Charles Cole, pupils of the Licensed Victuallers' School and winners of the 1994 William Grant Centenary Awards, start their award's...