Mentor scheme to help freshers
Booze, buddies, boogie and boredom. Chris Johnston samples the ups and downs of freshers' week. A scheme designed to help freshers cope with their difficult first year in higher education has been...
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Smooth oil for troubled waters
Aberdeen University could help prevent a rerun of the Brent Spar controversy, in which Shell and Greenpeace clashed over the strategy for decommissioning the floating oil installation, with a new...
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Danish doctor deal 'idiotic'
A new agreement which subsidises Norwegian medical students studying in Denmark, displacing Danes in a country which already facing a shortage of doctors and dentists, has created a political storm....
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Grammar's lost generation
Twentysomethings are desperate to learn correct and accessible English, says Gerry Kreibich. If the hullabaloo about allegedly appalling standards of literacy among ll-year-olds has a happy ending -...
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Priest aids reluctant students
Colleges are proving inventive in their struggle to retain students in further education. One has employed a priest to help, while others are sending counsellors and teams on home and youth club...
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Davies fights for Commons life
Huw Richards reports from the Labour party conference in Blackpool. Nobody would ever call Bryan Davies a lucky politician. For the second time in his career he faces losing his place in the House of...
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Nottingham Trent acts to defend its reputation
Nottingham Trent University has ordered a fresh look at Southampton Institute's troubled overseas franchise operation in an effort to safeguard its own reputation. The extraordinary intervention...
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Cheesy banana show whips up a frenzy
Booze, buddies, boogie and boredom. Alan Thomson samples the ups and downs of freshers' week. It's big, yellow and it whips young men and women into a frenzy. It's the latest in freshers' week...
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Scots plan post-Dearing
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is guarding against planning blight resulting from the Dearing inquiry into higher education by trawling for ideas on how institutions can work together...
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Ashrawi outlines peace agenda
Palestinian academics stayed off the streets while the bloody battles raged between Palestinian police, civilians and Israeli soldiers in West Bank towns last week. Instead, they searched for a...
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One per cent tax would pay for all
The funding of higher education is firmly back on the agenda. This time it includes the issue of full-time students contributing to their tuition fees. The outcry has been enormous. There is a very...
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Tale of the abnormal
In "Colleges face rebel swell" (THES, September ) Graeme Hill is quoted as saying that "because of the Care in the Community Act, people are presenting themselves at the college who may not display...
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Britons relax with a bedtime vision
Nearly half of Britons regularly hallucinate, according to a study by Robert Priest, emeritus professor in psychiatry at the University of London. In a survey of 5,000 people, Professor Priest found...
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Cern eyes loan
Cern, the Geneva-based particle physics laboratory, is thinking of taking out a loan to ensure completion of its key particle-smashing project, the Large Hadron Collider. The need for the money -...
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Cash backer
Alarming news for those who thought the greatest peril lying in wait for the election forecaster was a certain amount of derision when you got it wrong. Helmut Norpoth of the State University of New...