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ARCHITECTS AND SURVEYORS INSTITUTE. Michael Latham, consultant with the Building Employers Confederation and House-Builders Federation and corporate affairs director to The Building Group, was...
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Events
ART OF A CONTINENT. The Royal Academy of Arts is hosting an exhibition of artistic achievements in African art, particulary Egypt, its Sahara neighbours and the often neglected south, until January...
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Changes ahead
From January 1996, Noticeboard will change its emphasis to give more space to people in further and higher education in terms of appointments, promotions, honours, awards, fellowships, etc, of...
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Budget misery extends to Scotland
Government funding to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council for next year is Pounds 535 million, a drop of Pounds 7 million on the sum forecast last year. For the first time this has been...
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Pre-emptive strikes avert a hoo-ha
Lord Nolan must have felt a sense of relief when his committee on standards in public life opened its study of universities and colleges last month. After the hoo-ha that followed the committee's...
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Announcement
CHRISTOPHER COX MEMORIAL FUND. The Christopher Cox Memorial Fund was established in 1982 to commemorate the life and work of Sir Christopher Cox, fellow of New College. It was used to assist students...
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The banks that like to say no to loans
The Government's plans to privatise student loans suffered another blow this week as it emerged that all four of the major high street banks are likely to reject the scheme. Midland Bank became the...
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'Act of vandalism' condemned
Universities this week condemned cuts of Pounds 500 per student in real terms over three years as "short-sighted" and "an act of vandalism" as they considered the implications of the budget. Staff...
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If the cap fits
(Photograph) - If the cap fits: Labour leader Tony Blair became an honorary doctor of civil law at the University of Northumbria last week: his party's education standards document, published this...
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FE expansion threatened
Budget shocks reverberated through further education this week as principals tried to make sense of swingeing cuts in capital allocations which may mean the end of expansion. The settlement was far...
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Research cash switch
Millions of pounds earmarked for university infrastructure, including the hiring of technicians for research in universities, was spent on employing research assistants and on extra grants, a report...
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Maths does not add up
Scrapping A levels and slimming the number of competing examination boards are among measures urgently needed to raise students' ability in mathematics, according to Geoffrey Howson of Southampton...
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A levels under fire
A levels are outdated and should be replaced by a single overarching academic and vocational qualification, according to a Tory Reform Group report by Giles Marshall published this week.
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Marriage lines
The first meeting of the committee overseeing the merger of the Association for Colleges and the Colleges Employers Forum took place this week. Good progress was reported following rocky initial...
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Crewe takes helm
Ivor Crewe is the new vice chancellor of the University of Essex. He has been acting vice chancellor since May, when Ron Johnston left. He arrived in Essex as a lecturer in 1971. His new book on the...