Sheffield University
(Photograph) - SHEFFIELD University has bought the music library of British conductor and impresario Sir Thomas Beecham. The collection, acquired by private sale from Sir Thomas's widow, includes...
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Classroom costs revised
THE FUNDING council has bowed to pressure from higher education departments ranked as classroom-based, and therefore low-cost, and announced further re-pricings in its proposed funding methodology...
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Employers to get say on degrees
EMPLOYERS would play a key role in setting the compulsory "threshold" standards for degrees, recommended in Sir Ron Dearing's report, under Quality Assurance Agency plans. The QAA has strongly...
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What's in a name?
Leave nothing unquestioned. Think the unthinkable. The Dearing committee may have taken this advice a little too far in drawing up their bibliography. Ian McNay, head of Anglia Polytechnic University...
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Postcard or jumbo size
Geologist, press officer, novelist. We always knew that Ted Nield, late of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and now science and communications officer of the Geological Society, was a man of many...
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Getting a skinful
If deputy premier John Prescott wants to continue taking an active interest in crab life we recommend he contact Southampton University marine scientist Ken Collins, who has just found what he...
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What employers love the most
In the third of our series on degrees we look at what students can expect from ancient and modern subjects CLASSICS may conjure images of dusty declension books, full of amo, amas, amat but it seems...
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Virtual unreality
OK, so maybe distance does lend enchantment to the view, but London-based THES staff are still finding it a little difficult to recognise Thames Valley University from the enthusiastic publicity...
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Blowing her top
Alumnus to be proud of, number 131, is our never-a-dull-moment international development minister Clare Short, recently in the news for complementing Montserrat's volcanic activity with some of her...
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More power to the RIBA
The poor performance of many architecture departments in last year's research assessment exercise is forcing the Royal Institute of British Architects to rethink the structure of architecture courses...
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Drug fails sex drive test
Chocolate and herbal extracts fail aphrodisiac test SCIENTISTS from Finland, the United States and Britain have uncovered evidence that contradicts manufacturers' extravagant claims for the...
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Hotline to knowledge exchange
Douglas Hague calls for a contest to envisage, run and design the university of the future That Higher Education in a Learning Society should be the title of a Government report is a spectacular and...
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Student appeals decision imminent
LEGAL wrangles over student complaints have forced vice chancellors to delay their response to the Nolan report. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals wants to offer all universities a...
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Access to pages of confidential university information
Students and staff could soon gain access to pages of confidential university information about them, under new legislation planned for this autumn. The government is to introduce a bill to implement...
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In full sail
(Photograph) - In full sail: Students from Plymouth University are in training to take on the world when they compete in the Student Yachting World Cup. The British National Student Champions will be...