M'learned friends row
University law teachers and the College of Law have clashed over professional conversion courses for non-law graduates hoping to become barristers or solicitors. The Society of Public Teachers of Law...
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Development bid
The Overseas Development Administration is expected to announce next week a shortlist of bidders for the Natural Resources Institute in Chatham Maritime, Kent. Bidders being considered include...
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Cambridge record
Cambridge University, which has three female-only colleges and mixed colleges, last year admitted a record 1,379 women undergraduates, who now constitute 44.5 per cent of the total. But despite...
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Rent-a-lecturer plan
College employers are backing the creation of a private agency that aims to run a national directory of up to 400,000 self-employed lecturers for hire. The service will enable further education...
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Countdown to 1997
(Photograph) - Countdown to 1997: Henry Tang Ying-Yen, member of the Hong Kong legislative council and adviser to the Chinese government, emphasises a point during his address to the THES-Newcastle...
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Rouge faces
Until a couple of years ago, the grandly titled Pol Roger Oxford v Cambridge Blind Wine Tasting Match used to take place at the Oxford and Cambridge Club. But no longer: according to a Pol Roger...
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Digital diet
Scottish universities and colleges are being connected by a series of information superhighway links, or Metropolitan Area Networks, known rather ungrammatically as MANs. One of these is in Fife and...
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Career tonic
Lord Butterfield, distinguished medic, member of the House of Lords science and technology committee and former vice chancellor of Nottingham and Cambridge universities, suggested a simple solution...
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Plan to scrap national pay deals
University unions have reacted angrily to proposals to scrap annual pay increments and establish a single pay structure for all staff, from porters to professors. The suggestions form part of...
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Welsh farmers gain an institute
The Welsh Institute of Rural Studies was established at Aberystwyth last week when the university's department of agriculture merged with the Welsh Agricultural College. Michael Haines, institute...
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Cash for Irish sensors
The International Fund for Ireland is to back a major project linking Ulster's two universities and two in the Irish Republic. The Biomedical and Environmental Sensor Technology (BEST) Centre is...
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Folk fight to fill the house
Earlier this year a party planned to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Bristol Folk House looked like turning into a wake. But thanks to a number of donations, the party is still on. In October...
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Contract staff win appeal on status
The Association of University Teachers is claiming an Employment Appeal Tribunal decision as an important victory in its campaign to improve the status of thousands of contract staff. Glasgow...
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Riddle of the missing Asians in UK professional football
A research centre devoted to the study of soccer is investigating one of the great anomalies of the British game - why there are no Asian players in the professional league. "Either Asians are not...