Scots TV pioneers
Scotland's higher education institutions have taken a cautious step towards establishing their own TV channel. The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals this week set up a group to talk...
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Scholar fights on
Cyril Edwards, the linguistics scholar made redundant by Goldmiths College last year, has resigned from the Association of University Teachers because the union dropped its High Court case against...
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Natfhe deficit
The national executive of Natfhe, which faces a Pounds 1million shortfall in income, voted last week to hold a special rules conference in December. The union's membership has fallen by 10 per cent...
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Nerve centre opens
A new Pounds 1 million neurosciences research institute, which opened yesterday at Dundee University is expected to raise Pounds 3 million of research income over the next five years.
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Loss leaders
Britain led the world in this week's Ig Nobel prizes, awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research for research which "cannot or should not be reproduced". The economics prize went to Nick Leeson,...
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Internet news
Have your say on the issue of student funding. This week The THES is putting the student-produced New Solutions document and questionnaire (page 8) on the Internet. Every week Thesis, The THES...
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Indian appraisal upsets chiefs
Staff at once troubled Bournemouth University have decided to turn the tables on their managers and scrutinise their performance by setting up their own appraisal system. So far the initiative,...
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Absolutely lovely
(Photograph) - Absolutely lovely: The Royal College of Art's watering hole, the Absolut ArtBar, looks new. But it has had more than a splash of paint. Thanks to sponsorship from the spirits company...
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New Solutions, old problems
New Solutions, an independent group of over 100 student union officers of various political hues, has launched a consultation document this week to further debate on student funding. The document,...
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Call for central control
A central planning agency is urgently required to make higher education meet the needs of a modern learning society, ministers have been told. The agency should preside over funding incentives and...
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SA charts own course
South Africa's education minister will not be seeking long-term British aid for his country's hard-pressed universities when he meets Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment...
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Colleges have to pay back money
Large numbers of further education colleges are having to give back money to their funding council this month because they failed to count their student numbers accurately. The first full external...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an art critic who had a novel view: "Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was...
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Speaking Volumes: Aristocracy and the Middle Classes in Germany
Eva Kolinsky on Ernest K. Bramsted's Aristocracy and the Middle Classes in Germany: Social Types in German Literature 1830-1900. I remember the excitement when I first read Ernest K. Bramsted's book...
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Man as Filing cabinet
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