Scots FE pay talks abandoned
National negotiations for Scotland's 43 further education colleges ended this week, with the major staff union warning of imminent industrial action. The Employers' Association for Scottish Further...
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Improving marine safety
Reducing high levels of deaths and injuries at sea is the aim of a Pounds 1.5 million maritime safety research centre being established at Cardiff University's department of maritime studies. An...
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Noble prize
Literary sideswipes reach three figures with the help of Walter Redfern from the French department at Reading University, who spotted Salvador Dali in characteristically bizarrely scatalogical mode...
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Shome mishtake
The latest issue of Press & Publication News from the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals apologises profusely for a wrong attribution in a previous report based on a newspaper...
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Highland fling
The Scottish Office may pour cold water on the prospect of a new University of the Highlands being set up, but are there signs that existing institutions are taking the scheme a little more seriously...
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No sex please
The zillions of forms sent out by the Office of Science and Technology as part of the process of collecting views on technology Foresight had, as you would expect, two boxes for declaring whether the...
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We have lift-off
Only a couple of weeks after Roger Bonnet, head of the European Space Agency's science programme, claimed that Britain wanted a "20 to 50 per cent" cut in the funding of space research; the British...
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Sheffield steel
The barricades will be going up along the Eccleshall Road as Sheffield's two universities prepare to slug it out for the chairmanship of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. Nominations...
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Information
There is now an opportunity to include more listings in Noticeboard and on the new Internet listings service NetGazette. The newspaper version of Noticeboard will continue to focus on the UK with the...
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How do you moo?
And hello to the director of the Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust, Mr Bullock.
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Thames Valley turns IT results around
The fifth unsatisfactory rating awarded so far by the Higher Education Funding Council for England's quality assessors has gone to Thames Valley University's computing degrees, but a follow-up visit...
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No pattern to sex studies
Sex education for young people can currently be described as "knitting without a pattern", according to London University researchers. A team from the social science research unit at the Institute of...
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Nurses to the rescue
Amid continuing concern over the need to reduce junior doctors' hours, Buckinghamshire College has launched a course to allow nurses to do some of the work currently done by doctors. Buckinghamshire...
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Anchors aweigh
(Photograph) - Administrative staff work under giant umbrellas in the nautical-style business school building on the newly inaugurated St Peter's campus at Sunderland University on the banks of the...
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Greenwich eyes hospital site
Greenwich University could take over the old Greenwich Hospital site currently occupied by the Royal Naval College if a multi-million pound bid to the Ministry of Defence is successful. The...