Manchester's business buzz
The four universities in the Greater Manchester area are launching a Pounds 12 million venture to provide their students with the skills and facilities to set up and run their own businesses. David...
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Oxford colleges give Pounds 10 million to spin-off firms
Oxford University colleges are to finance a Pounds 10 million fund for the support of spin-off firms, writes Kam Patel. Tim Cook, managing director of the university's technology transfer arm, Isis...
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Students reject complaints code
Plans for a code of practice on student complaints face collapse following a rebellion by the student union leaders helping to draft the document. The postgraduate representative on the Quality...
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In the news
Andrew Cubie, nominated this week as chair of the independent committee of inquiry on student finance in Scotland, says he has two main contributions to make. First, is his independence; he claims to...
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Drop-out forced to pay fees
Students who withdraw from one university and transfer to another could be liable to pay double tuition fees because of a legislative anomaly. Daniel Rees, 19, a former Bath Spa University College...
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Scots pick team to probe fees and grants
The people who will help decide the fate of tuition fees in Scotland are to be approved today by the Scottish Parliament. Henry McLeish, Scottish Parliament minister for enterprise and lifelong...
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Contract staff hopes lifted
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has pledged a speedy investigation into improving conditions for contract researchers. Mr McLeish, speaking at an Association...
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Query over whether colleges have the cash to get down to business
The Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee has flagged up further education as a key priority, writes Olga Wojtas. Convenor and Scottish National Party MSP John Swinney has...
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Unions fear shift to local pay deal
A senior management negotiator for Scotland's new universities has defended proposals to cut academics' holidays by 20 days in their draft staff contracts. The "Partnership 2000" proposals have drawn...
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Constitution think-tank
The Economic and Social Research Council is funding a Pounds 5 million research programme on devolution and constitutional change, its outgoing chief executive Ron Amann has revealed. Professor Amann...
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On the move
Howard Thomas, dean of the commerce of business administration at the Urbana-Champaign campus, University of Illinois, has been appointed dean of the business school at the University of Warwick from...
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Glittering prizes
Bert Sakmann, director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, has been awarded the honorary degree of DSc (medicine) by the University of London at the first joint...
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Don's diary
Monday Ten emails, two cups of coffeee. Organising a conference that brings together the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), the Henry James Society (US) and the Ford Madox Ford Society was never going to be...
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The THES Diary
Slow on the march They don't make Scottish students like they used to. Forty-five this week marched from Glasgow to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in a tuition fees and grants protest. They...
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Eye witness
Psycho-linguistic expert Valery Belyanin has spent the past three years developing a sophisticated computer program that allows the user to delve behind the surface meaning of texts to discover the...