Oxford told to streamline
The North report on Oxford University recommends that it could learn from Cambridge. Harriet Swain and Phil Baty contrast Oxford with its great rival It has taken nearly four years and has been...
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Commercial funds cause fear for integrity
Academic autonomy at Oxbridge is being threatened by the institutions' growing reliance on external and commercial funding, academics have warned. This week, the Campaign for Academic Freedom and...
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Cambridge defies QAA's plans
Cambridge University is taking a stand against the Quality Assurance Agency's plans for a new quality assurance regime. It is now the only institution refusing to take part in a fresh round of audits...
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Thatcher endowment row
Cambridge University looks set to accept a Pounds 2 million endowment from former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for a new professorship in "enterprise studies" - but not without a row. The...
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Case of the unhappy nursery nursing drop-out
Welfare to what? Phil Baty on what the government's New Deal has to offer to colleges and students. JANE is the first student to enrol at Gateshead College under the New Deal education pathway. She...
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Colleges 'have nothing to fear'
Welfare to what? Phil Baty on what the government's New Deal has to offer to colleges and students. COLLEGES' fears for their future role in the New Deal are misplaced, Andrew Smith, the employment...
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Putting children at centre of clubs
The government's Pounds 300 million drive to expand after-school child care could alienate children because the policy focuses on parents, researchers have warned. Researchers at Brunel University's...
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Kids as active agents
THE PLACE of children in late 20th-century society seems dangerously confused. We are told to treat them as individuals capable of autonomous action, but at the same time there are compelling...
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Robin Hood reversed
CORRUPTION in developing countries is under the scrutiny of a Staffordshire University political researcher who hopes to help aid agencies and governments fight the menace. Stephen Riley is examining...
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Dementia decisions
THE extent to which people with learning difficulties who suffer from dementia can make decisions about their lives is the subject of a Stirling University study. Researchers will interview 20 people...
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House owner inequity
YOUNG people who move to London in the search for upward mobility significantly reduce their prospects of becoming home owners, according to research for the Economic and Social Research Council....
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Cartilage scrutinised
ELECTRON microscope examination of cartilage could hold the key to understanding arthritis, say researchers at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. The university's Institute of Biological Sciences...
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Times turntables
GETTING his multiplication tables wrong was bad enough for schools minister Stephen Byers, but it can put some children off maths for life. Maths teacher Wendy Fortescue-Hubbard, of the University of...
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Archive opens for Inquisition
The archive of the Catholic Church's Inquisition, covering thousands of heresy and witchcraft trials from 1542 to 1903, has been opened officially to researchers. For years, only a handful of people...
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Jesuits' Pounds 2m book sale
France's Jesuit community is faced with tough decisions over the future of the largest private theology library in France. The Jesuits can no longer provide the staff and money to keep the 450,000...