Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY Vincent Marks (above) , professor of clinical biochemistry and consultant chemical pathologist, has been appointed dean of medicine in the university's new European Institute of...
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Mike the mouth
Alumnus to be proud of No: 36 is the irrepressible Mike Fitzgerald, vice chancellor of Thames Valley University and self-proclaimed "Kenneth Tynan of higher education," after his becoming the first...
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One to one
If Gillian Shephard does not know what binary coding looks like she might want to take a peek at a table produced in a written answer from her department to Adam Ingram. The Labour MP asked her how...
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Cash back
Jim Murphy, president of the National Union of Students and a former student at Strathclyde University, paid tribute to Strathclyde students association's success in having resit fees abolished. "I'm...
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Kandy treat
Good timing being one of the basic attributes of the top-quality cricketer, one can only admire the coincidence of reports that the battle for an Australian-style Cricket Academy has been won with...
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Toilet training
The political backlash against increased female participation has gone beyond opposition to all-women shortlists. Seen in the University of Westminster's language building, a poster directing...
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Political footwork
The Dearing review of higher education is set to be a good deal racier than you might expect if Sir Ron's lecture at Brunel University this week is anything to go by. The script released to The THES...
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Major disaster
There was confusion worthy of a Feydeau farce in Hong Kong earlier this month with the simultaneous arrival of two British visitors intent on schmoozing with the locals. As two separate dinners got...
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Mystic Cheryl
At the National Union of Students' Scottish conference last weekend, executive committee member Cheryl-Ann Cruickshank accurately predicted that nobody would vote against the first motion on further...
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British duo leads Euro Internet first
Two British universities are leading a Pounds 2 million European initiative to put degree-level courses on the Internet, writes Simon Targett. Distance learning specialist the Open University,...
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FACE the future
A University of the West of England project, FACE (facilitating access to learning for disabled students), has won Pounds 100,000 funding from British Telecom in this year's University Development...
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Disease unit opens
Edinburgh University has opened a Pounds 5.5 million molecular medicine centre in the city's Western General Hospital NHS Trust, one of the medical faculty's two main teaching hospitals. The centre...
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OST shunt called for
The Office of Science and Technology should be moved back to the Cabinet Office from the Department of Trade and Industry, according to Save British Science. Outlining policies it believes the next...
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How to save Pounds 40m
Better energy management could save British higher education up to Pounds 40 million, according to a report from the English, Scottish and Welsh funding councils and Northern Ireland's Department of...
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College bids spur franchise fears
A Pounds 600 million expansion bid from further education colleges for 1996-97, double the amount available, has raised fresh concerns that the sector is setting itself unrealistic growth targets....