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...
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Dismay at peaceline delay
The University of Ulster has voiced dismay at the Government's failure to announce a go-ahead for the much vaunted peaceline campus in West Belfast. The university warned that vital opportunities to...
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Varnish polishes off plaque
The Scots' notorious sweet tooth appears to be as decayed as ever among the latest batch of adolescents, with Dundee University's dental health services research unit reporting that the state of 12-...
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Albania puts plants on map
Vast tracts of Albanian landscape, whose plant life has been hidden for decades, are at last being explored with the help of a scientists from the United Kingdom. John Rodwell, of the Unit of...
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How to get the dressing right
If your are seriously wounded in an accident, your chances of a quick recovery may depend on which brand of dressing your surgeon happens to find in the cupboard. Until now, there has been little...
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Cambodians find fault with French assault
Some 250 Cambodian students demonstrated and burned tyres last week in protest at the use of French as the teaching medium at Phnom Penh's Institute of Technology. Student leaders said the protest...
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Vietnam vets claim anti-war backlash
Twenty years after the war ended, Vietnam veterans are complaining that they have been denied jobs in universities in the United States because those in charge of higher education never served in the...
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Endangered genes go to the bank
Mounting anger and frustration at the lack of progress in pay talks has brought staff at Victoria University of Wellington to the brink of what could be New Zealand's first academic strike. The...