Welsh funding goes its own way
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales has set out its plans for the next three years in a corporate strategy which is increasingly distinctive from that of its English counterpart. The...
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Flu vaccine misses its target
Levels of flu vaccinations across Britain are woefully inadequate, partly because GPs and hospital doctors are not pushing the vaccine enough, according to Leicester University expert Karl Nicholson...
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Terrorist threat denied
The London School of Economics has strongly denied allegations that it is a recruiting ground for Muslim terrorists. A spokesman for the Indian High Commission in London this week named only one...
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Taxing questions for NUS leaders
I was disappointed to see the democratically elected president of the National Union of Students refusing to promote democratically decided policy on the funding of students in further and higher...
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Taxing questions for NUS leaders
Jim Murphy welcomes the publication of the Institute for Public Policy Research Commission on Social Justice on behalf of the National Union of Students. His organisation has made some impressive...
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Worth its weight?
If the future of book publishing is in peril, humanities academics may turn to the electronic networks. Anita Roy laments the decline of the monograph, below, while Diane Hofkins, right, reports on a...
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Appointments
LANGUAGE TEACHING The following have been appointed to the governing body of the Centre for Information of Language Teaching and Research: Derek Winslow, director and chief executive of Cardiff...
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A campus of gowns and veils
Simon Targett reports from a Malaysian university that is seeking a rapprochement with the western intellectual tradition. The man with the moustache stared into the tinted taxi window with...
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The Bell Curve is sending shock waves through America
Charles Murray, the conservative social scientist whose book The Bell Curve is sending shock waves through America is not surprised the book is causing a furore. In fact he is relishing the debate. "...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE The university's first honorary degrees will be conferred upon the following: DLitt: David Wilson, former governor and commander-in-chief of Hong Kong, chairman of...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF YORK Research grants Drs A. Marvin, J. Dawson and J. Angus, Pounds 157,719 from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (diffuse screened rooms using pseudo-random phase...
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Awards
FRAENKEL PRIZE Richard Evans, professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, has been awarded the Fraenkel prize in contemporary history, general section, for his manuscript From...
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Events
ANTHONY CARO The Whitworth Art Gallery is hosting the first retrospective of Sir Anthony Caro's table sculpture in celebration of his 70th birthday. The exhibition traces the exploration, by one of...
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Words' worth
Language Shock; Understanding The Culture Of Conversation By Michael Agar, William Morrow, 224pp, $22.00, ISBN 0 688 12399 6. We are all familiar with the notion of culture shock, when we find...
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Squabbles break out on training
Training and Enterprise Council chiefs have challenged further education college leaders to provide them with hard evidence of TECs running courses in direct competition with further education...