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University of Birmingham Research grants Drs C. Taylor, C. Lote and A. Howie, Pounds 26,013 from the Medical Research Council (childhood haemolytic uraemic syndrome: a laboratory model); Dr C. Caten...
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French reformers hit out at red tape
FRANCE's higher education system is confused, bureaucratic and inegalitarian and urgently needs reorganising, says a report published last week. A commission of inquiry, chaired by state counsellor...
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PhDs lose out to jobs market
PHD ADMISSIONS to several of Britain's top research universities appear to have dropped dramatically in the past two years. A buoyant jobs market, student debt and low stipends are among the reasons...
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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has commissioned an accreditation scheme specifically for its research supervisors, writes Alison Utley. David Baume, of the centre for...
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Gene law angers Greens
THE CONTROVERSIAL European Biotechnology Patent Directive passed its last big hurdle on the way to becoming European law this week. The directive, which has been partly rewritten after objections...
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Perkin-Elmer reportedly announced plans to unravel the entire human genetic code by 2001
The European parliament decision comes in the same week that the United States multinational Perkin-Elmer reportedly announced plans to unravel the entire human genetic code by 2001. The company,...
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Lobby life
(Photograph) - London students protested about fees on Monday by writing to the Prime Minister. Two days later student unions gathered outside Parliament to lobby against the bill. Speakers include...
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Developments in quality assurance
Universities are breaking ranks as they face threats to their autonomy in theshape of new quality and teaching regimes. July 1997: Lord Dearing's national committee on higher education publishes...
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Cracks appear over QAA
AN UPROAR from top research universities over quality proposals has forced a climbdown by the Quality Assurance Agency and caused a new division within the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and...
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CVCP ready to splinter
THIS summer's spending review could split the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals. Some vice-chancellors have told The THES that if the comprehensive spending review in July results in...
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Teacher power struggle
THE proposed Institute of Learning and Teaching, which comes into being this autumn, raises a serious threat to university autonomy, say some vice-chancellors. Divisions are appearing over the role...
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Scots bid to avoid fiasco
SCOTTISH education minister Brian Wilson is putting an extra Pounds 380,000 into the Student Awards Agency for Scotland to prevent a repetition of last autumn's fiasco, which left thousands of...
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Fact File
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1996/87 reveal that: * Enrolments by females (UK and EU) to first-degree courses are up by 3 per cent over 1996 * Enrolments by males (UK and EU...
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Internet
The effects of new technology in higher education, libraries and publishing were debated at the "Beyond the Hype" event in Oxford on April 23. Selected speeches can be heard in RealAudio on THESIS,...
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Foundation crumbles
KEELE University is to wind up its pioneering foundation year course, which has been running since it took its first students 48 years ago. The decision was made following signs that demand for the...