Blackstone goes for fees
Baroness Blackstone told a conference in London this week that Labour party plans to boost funding by recovering student maintenance costs would not sustain a high-quality system. But Labour is...
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Howl win?
The question was: "If you subtract five from 87 as many times as you can what will you get in the end? One boy answered: "I get 82 each time." Association of University Teachers' general secretary...
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Russian elections fail to dampen pioneer spirit
Russian academics have little to fear from a communist victory in the country's presidential campaign if the experience of Volgograd, which swung to the party in local elections last year, is an...
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Misleading talk of what is a graduate
In its discussion paper on graduate standards, the Higher Education Quality Council argues that there is an essence of graduateness characteristic to those who have successfully completed an honours...
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Islamic study mission
Knowledge is universal, and so the body of facts and the basic skills that constitute a discipline remain the same no matter what the guiding philosophies of the institutions in which the disciplines...
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Scottish Dearing
The Scottish committee of the Dearing inquiry will comprise Sir Ron Garrick, chief executive of the Weir Group, chairman; John Arbuthnott, principal of Strathclyde University; Sir James Armour,...
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MP raises alarm over Swansea
Alan Williams, the MP for Swansea West, has alerted the National Audit Office to the overseas franchise operations of Swansea Institute of Higher Education. His action this week coincides with the...
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Scots principals call for moratorium on cuts
Scottish higher education chiefs have called for a moratorium on funding cuts until after the Dearing inquiry reports. The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals, which today holds its...
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Shot in the arm
Academics who wish to start biotechnology companies could get help from the Medical Research Council, which is setting up a seed investment fund. It hopes to raise Pounds 25 million to help establish...
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Charter trip
A charter campaign was launched yesterday to push Nene College's bid to become a university. The campaign is supported by local government, Northamptonshire firms and public bodies.
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Framework summit
European Union research council ministers meet next week to vote on a Pounds 600 million increase for the Pounds 10 billion Framework research programme.
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Job in space for metal detectives
Why bother asking astronomers to detect life in space? According to Alexey V Arkhipov of the Institute of Radio Astronomy in Kharkhov, Ukraine, people with metal detectors might be a better bet....
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Malays get tough on agents
Malaysia has set out its terms for overseas universities seeking to operate through local colleges. Education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak told foreign universities not to treat local...
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Lessons at the sharp end
Unfortunately, in his review of our edited book, Misunderstanding Science? (THES, May 31), Lewis Wolpert took the opportunity to repeat his well-known views concerning the social scientific...
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Life begins at 91 for oldest PhD
The oldest PhD on record received his degree at a ceremony this week at Concordia University, Montreal. Ninety-one year-old Dagobert Broh finished his doctoral history thesis this year after seven...