Experts split on shift to basics
Academics who have joined forces to produce a book on Government policy options are split over calls for a reduction in higher education funding. Contributing authors to Options for Britain: A...
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Ethics reports on animal organ transplants multiply
In the rush to examine the ethics of transplanting animal organs into humans, three different top committees are to produce reports, writes Aisling Irwin. The Government this week announced the...
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Adviser attacks NVQ report for 'soft-pedalling'
A hotly-anticipated Government-sponsored report calling for a radical overhaul of the implementation of national vocational qualifications has been criticised by a leading report adviser. The adviser...
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End of the longest all-out strike
* The longest all-out strike at a further education college ended this week in a local agreement between Natfhe and Bolton college. The seven-week dispute was resolved in a last-minute agreement...
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Lecturer unions square up for new pay fight
Industrial action could sweep university and college campuses this year as funding cuts force lecturer redundancies and rule out pay rises. Lecturers' unions say they have little choice but to push...
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THESis
THESIS, the THES Internet service, has been revised for 1996 with new-look editorial pages and a searchable database for InterView, our job advertisement service, which is updated on the Tuesday...
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Telescopic sight
(Photograph) - Gavin Dalton, a lecturer, adjusts the first new telescope in Oxford University for 30 years which is about to be installed in the former university observatory.
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CERN ups the anti
The world of Star Trek, with its antimatter-driven starship, has come one step nearer. For the first time physicists at CERN, the Geneva-based particle-smashing laboratory, have produced antimatter....
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New Year honours
John Rose, chairman of the Hertford Regional College Corporation, was omitted from our list of new year's honours last week. He was awarded an OBE for services to education. Jag Kharbanda, community...
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Help for disabled
FE colleges are being asked to comment on new regulations requiring them to publish information on facilities for the disabled to help them make informed choices. The Government launched a three-...
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Answer in soil
Soil and water could be the source of new anti-cancer drugs, scientists from the Cancer Research Campaign have said. They have developed such drugs from compounds produced by common bacteria which...
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Nolan rap for v-cs
University heads' submissions to the Nolan committee on standards in public life are "profoundly inadequate", the Council for Academic Autonomy has claimed. Evidence from the Committee of Vice...
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IT spend on loans
The Student Loans Company has spent Pounds 20 million on new technology since 1990, Eric Forth, the higher education minister, revealed this week. In an answer to a Parliamentary question from Bryan...
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Fur flies in unholy row over dress code
Academics from Cambridge University's four theological colleges have succeeded in winning enthusiastic support from on high for a new vocational degree called the bachelor of theology for ministry....
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Lawyers reach pact over Bar School
The Commission for Racial Equality has called off an investigation into Bar School course results showing white students gaining more passes than their black peers. Plans to launch a formal inquiry...