Deans of arts lobby Blair for council
ARTS and humanities deans are piloting a pre-election campaign for a Humanities Research Council. The Council of University Deans of Arts and Humanities is stepping up calls for a separate research...
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Dearing lists the options
Sir Ron Dearing's committee of inquiry into higher education will present the Government with a range of future funding options, Sir Ron said this week. The possibility of students contributing to...
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Risk row repaired
PURE and social scientists ended a five-year squabble and returned to debate risk at the Royal Society this week. More than 300 academics, policy makers, industrialists and members of the public...
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Wales squeezed with 3% cash cut
Eight of the 13 Welsh university-level institutions have had to be safety-netted in the 1997/98 funding allocations announced this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. A ninth...
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The lure of hara-kiri
All is not yet lost for Bryan Davies, Labour further and higher education spokesman and chief collateral-damage victim of Alan Howarth's selection as Labour candidate for Newport East. Mr Davies is...
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Referendum rights
So is the Referendum Party really as much of a single-issue operation as they are telling us? When Essex University's Association of University Teachers branch advertised its pre-election forum,...
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Merger emerger
Ruth Gee, former further education supremo, may have good reason to feel she is backing a winner this time round after turning her talents to helping Labour secure general election victory. Ms Gee,...
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Fired for the fray
The outcome of the recent Oxford Union debate, which voted not to give the Scots or Welsh their own parliaments, came as no surprise to Allan Macartney, the Scottish National Party MEP who has just...
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In good hands we trust
Lucy Neville Rolfe, director of the deregulation unit in the Cabinet Office, spoke eloquently about the benefits of cutting unnecessary rules and procedures at a risk conference in London this week....
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Good vibrations
Alumnus to be proud of No 94 can by contrast expect to be remembered for inducing the ruling that while you cannot bleep in the House of Commons, you can have a vibrator. Brian Wilson, Labour's...
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Stakeholder journal queries the quango culture
NATIONAL opinion polls may make depressing reading for the Conservatives, but they still have the majority on quangos, whether they are university governing bodies or health trusts. Tony McWalter, an...
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Pub science
(Photograph) - Pub science: Alice Hague and Andrew Coulthard, postgraduate students at Glamorgan University, Pontypridd, run through scientific tricks outside the Cardiff pub, Eli Jenkins, from their...
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Oxford colleges' powers set to slip
OXFORD University must respond to a dramatic shift in the balance between administration, teaching and research if it is to remain successful, according to its vice chancellor. Peter North, who is...
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Biotech firms surge ahead
OXFORDSHIRE's expanding biotechnology sector is heavily reliant on universities and other public research establishments, according to a report out today. Twelve companies interviewed for the report...
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Pounds 250,000 to boost British competitiveness in biotechnology
A consortium of five universities in South West England and South Wales has received Pounds 250,000 to boost British competitiveness in biotechnology. The five universities - Bath, Bristol, West of...