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There's nothing like an interesting visitor to ease the longueurs of the summer months, so there was a warm welcome from the Higher Education Funding Council for England information department when a...
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How would you do?
Another cherished piece of academic legend bites the dust. Almost as resilient as the old Oxford joke about late Victorian redbrick Keble College "C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la gare" is the...
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Widow's might
Despite his lengthy exile in England, Sir Stewart has obviously not forgotten Aberdonians' reputation for canniness with money. He regaled the quincentenary audience with the one about the newly...
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Local hero
Aberdeen's daily paper, the Press and Journal, is noted for seeing the city and its environs as the centre of the universe. Sir Stewart Sutherland, principal of Edinburgh University and former vice...
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Tribunals miss race point, says lecturer
A law lecturer at Manchester University has spoken out against the lay industrial tribunal system, which he says is failing victims of race discrimination in higher education. Asif Qureshi, who is...
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Does the Lottery dice with health?
Two health experts at London University are warning there is an urgent need for research into the effects of the National Lottery. Martin McKee, reader in public health medicine, and health economist...
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Shrunken team on expanded stage
The triple jump, suddenly fashionable in the wake of Jonathan Edwards' spectacular victory at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenberg, could provide further British triumphs at the World...
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Labour faces learning inertia
The Labour Party should tread carefully but boldly if it wants to win votes with the idea of creating "learning accounts" to support education and training, according to independent policy...
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May or may not
Rumours persist in Whitehall that Bob May, the Oxford University-based biologist, initially refused to continue with his appointment as the Government's chief scientific adviser on being notified of...
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The 500 year reunion
In Rashdall's classic study The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages we read: "Paris and Bologna are the archetypal - it might almost be said the only original universities: Paris supplied the...
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Collider hints at new world
Imagine a red car and a yellow car hitting each other head-on at high speed. Both cars are wrecked and debris is strewn across a wide area. But what is this? The red car, despite all the evidence...
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Excluded student prepares to sue
A student on Glasgow Caledonian University Company's troubled counselling course is poised to sue after being excluded from its final stages. Two students on the certificate course, Winifred Scott...
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Lords decide contract staff have equal rights
A House of Lords probe into university scientists' careers has concluded that contract research staff should have the same status and rights as established colleagues of equivalent rank. The plight...
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Millennium mark up
The Scottish Office this week announced upgraded entry requirements for teacher education courses from the academic year 2000/01. Entrants to primary teacher education courses will need a standard...
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Talking terror
The horrors of abduction, torture and murder by governments are coming under scrutiny at a Glasgow University conference today. The university's department of forensic medicine and science is hosting...