Funding withdrawn as partnership collapses
A RESEARCH council grant has been withdrawn from a joint project at Cambridge and Bristol universities following the collapse of their partnership. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research...
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Anglia to drop 'poly' and go east
ANGLIA Polytechnic University is to apply for a new name to shake off confusion over its status. Governors, staff and students have "almost unanimously" agreed to scrap the word "polytechnic" from...
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British best in Europe
BRITISH universities score best across Europe in a large-scale comparison of universities in 15 European countries by the German news magazine Der Spiegel. But while they dominated the top ten in all...
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Scots eye wider intake
Glasgow Caledonian University last week hosted two major events aimed at increasing the numbers of students from less affluent backgrounds. The first of a series of seminars on the Committee of Vice-...
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Postcode formula addresses access
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has unveiled a new calculation of higher education partipation which it hopes will help concentrate wider access efforts on areas of greatest need,...
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Expert challenges egalitarian claims
An expert in education statistics has challenged the Garrick Committee's claim that Scotland has had more success than the rest of the United Kingdom in attracting students from the lower...
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Fee waiver for successful A-level appellants
Tuition fees will be waived for a further small group of students this year, ministers have confirmed. The waiver will apply to any student who failed to get into university in 1997, the last year of...
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Blunkett stresses wider access ambition
David Blunkett has reaffirmed the government's commitment to extending access among under-represented groups. Answering questions after delivering the keynote speech to the London School of Economics...
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Scottish colleges ill-prepared for debt
Virtually all of Scotland's further education colleges are forecast to have an operating deficit this year, but only a minority have set out explicit strategies to improve their financial health, the...
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Royal observatory sheds 50 staff
Almost 50 staff at the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Cambridge were this week issued with redundancy notices as the 323-year-old observatory begins to run down. Twenty employees have already left...
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Two sides of the argument
THES reporters round up some of the latest industrial tribunal cases in universities and colleges A Paisley University dean has vowed to clear his name after being sacked following an investigation...
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Funding council boosts PFI sales pitch
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has announced new arrangements for assessing Private Finance Initiative projects that could make them more attractive to potential private sector...
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Manchester secures electronic journals deal
Manchester University's computing service has teamed up with Swets, a firm specialising in managing subscriptions for libraries, to form a consortium that will manage electronic journal provision in...
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BBSRC pumps Pounds 2.6m into regional centres
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council this week gave Pounds 2.6 million for its first two collaborative centres for structural biology at the University of York, and jointly at...
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Gift-book
(Photograph) - David Munro, director of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, examines part of the collection of papers and books of one of Britain's leading postwar geographers. Terry Coppock,...