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...
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Dream with a mission
Simon Targett reports from the Training and Enterprise Council annual conference on Shephard's vision of her new super department. The new Department for Education and Employment is seeking a popular...
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Skill breaks disabled block
This has been a year of anniversaries for Deborah Cooper. Skill, the National Bureau for Students with Disabilities, which she runs, is 21 years old and the Open University, which has just awarded...
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Medical schools press for cash
Medical schools are warning Government that they must have funding for planned student expansion. The Government is to boost intakes by 10 per cent over the next five years, from 4,470 to 4,970, but...
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Inner cities win the Lottery
Huw Richards and David Charter report on sport in HE and Fe after John Major's announcement of a national review. The Sports Council is to offer greater amounts of National Lottery funds to inner...
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Scholars enjoy a sporting chance
Huw Richards and David Charter report on sport in HE and FE after John Major's announcement of a national review. The relationship between sport and scholarship, not to mention the extent of sports...
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Science 'safe' in shuffle
Sir John Cadogan, director general of the research councils has moved quickly to reassure scientists that the United Kingdom research base is secure. The transfer of the Office of Science and...
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Computer chips brought down to size
A computer chip the size of a postage stamp could soon have the power of 1,000 personal computers, say Cambridge scientists. This is because scientists have made a breakthrough in which they can get...
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Music head quits over cuts
The head of music at Wakefield College in Yorkshire will resign at the end of this month in protest over "intolerable" cuts facing music education at the college. Richard Ingham, who is taking...