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Male transvestite students at at least one campus of a leading Thai teachers' college are allowed to wear women's school uniforms to classes, the Bangkok Post has reported. The policy, which differs...
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Cambridge on trial for radioactive loss
Cambridge University has pleaded guilty to three breaches of health and safety law following the loss of a radioactive substance, revealed exclusively by The THES last year. A further five alleged...
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Campus canteens told to name GM names
Universities will face extra costs when laws for labelling genetically modified food are introduced next month. From September, all catering services, from canteens to sandwich trolleys, will be...
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200 projects receive arts board grants
The Arts and Humanities Research Board has announced a third round of awards totalling Pounds 17,229,543 for more than 200 research projects. Awards include continued funding for some projects...
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NUS negotiates fee payment guidelines
The National Union of Students will produce a protocol for "sensible and flexible ways" in which universities can collect fees in the wake of the announcement that students owe an estimated Pounds 15...
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Eight students fear marking limbo
An external examiner has raised concerns about arrangements for the final cohort of students at Exeter University's centre for women's studies, which is to be axed in September. Marion Shaw, head of...
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Child care aims to encourage entrants
Colleges have been given Pounds 17 million to provide child-care support, the Further Education Funding Council has announced. The package includes Pounds 5 million available this year and Pounds 7...
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French fillip for building the synchrotron
The French government is to contribute Pounds 35 million over seven years towards building a new generation synchrotron radiation s ource in the United Kingdom. The building of the synchrotron, the...
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Wales welcomes arts and drama support
The Welsh funding council is planning to give the Welsh College of Music and Drama, once attended by Oscar winner Sir Anthony Hopkins, more money. The decision will set the college on a par with...
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Technicians accept 3.5 per cent pay offer
Technicians' union MSF, which represents staff in pre-1992 universities, has accepted the employers' 3.5 per cent pay offer by a two-thirds majority. This means all support staff in old and new...
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The Beagle 2 lands
(Photograph) - Pounds 5 million for Mars trip n The Beagle 2 Mars Lander project, championed by the Open University's Colin Pillinger (below), has received Pounds 5 million from the government's...
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Students help Kosovar peers
PRISTINA When Albanian students from Kosovo assembled last month in the University of Pristina's official buildings for the first time since 1991, they observed a minute of silence for absent friends...
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Macedonian unis fail to provide right racial mix
Universities in Macedonia are failing to observe the ethnic quotas for admissions set by the Macedonian ministry of education, according to the Party for Democratic Prosperity, the main political...
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Changing times
Changing times: still from Alys McAuley's double award-winning computer animation, Monday, a positive approach to the onset of puberty in girls. Alys, who created the work while studying graphic...
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New mirrors reflect need to cut costs of net working
The Higher Education National Software Archive, a collection of 1.3 million programs and other files gathered from the internet, was this week reborn as the National Mirror Service. By "mirroring"...