Greece taps private sector
More emphasis on the experience and resources of the private education sector and radical changes in entrance examinations to universities are key parts of the cure prescribed by the Organisation of...
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The administrators
Angela Crum-Ewing is the retiring deputy registrar at Reading University. She entered university administration at the age of 39 after taking time out to care for a family of four children. When her...
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Oxford's blues
A cash crisis is threatening the collegiate system. Ilsa Godlovitch reports. Financial pressures may in 20 years' time force a change on the whole ethos of Oxford University life. There may be little...
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Turning green into gold
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences. This week The THES summer series on research begins. As mainstream teaching ends for the summer vacation in much of higher education, academic staff and...
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Forfeit for four-year sacrifice
Four-year degree courses have been developed by many university science and engineering departments for a variety of reasons. These include: the need for more content , particularly complementary...
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Cosmetic calling for the pea
The humble pea could soon be the source of plastics and ingredients for lipsticks, potash and match heads, if research at the John Innes Centre in Norwich is successful. The products have an...
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Torry Laboratory rescue group remains optimistic
The Aberdeen Research Consortium has not lost hope that the work of the threatened Torry Food Science Laboratory will remain in the city despite a Government decision to close it next year. The...
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Trapped in 'the Tec' time warp
Reshuffles in Westminster will do little to help Stan Dey with his problem 300 miles away in North Yorkshire. For most of the Scarborough community, including local schools, still refer to his...
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Young doctor goes west
Winston Churchill will come under renewed scrutiny from this year's occupant of the visiting chair in British history at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri. The Robertson chair, established in the...
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Study debunks maths teaching
Advances in understanding the brain have led researchers in mathematics education to call for an end to "textbook" style teaching and problem setting in schools and colleges. Speaking at a conference...
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Art form
(Photograph) - Art form: Art foundation students at Yorkshire Coast College of Further and Higher Education, which is struggling to compete with local sixth form colleges.
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Howler time
Too bad it took 29 years for Oxford University researchers to prove scientifically that Geoff Hurst's second World Cup final goal did not cross the line - the 1966 howler competition closed some time...
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Jurassic title
Coming soon to a personnel department near you, the crispest title of the decade: The National Health Service Executive and the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals: Nursing, Midwifery and...
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Go Forth and divide
The Prime Minister is not the only member of the Government with a literary connection. New higher education minister Eric Forth's handle turns up on a slightly less exalted plane in Leslie Thomas'...
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Load of Trollope
Politics may have changed since Anthony Trollope chronicled the doings of the nation's elite in his Pallisers sequence of novels, but the names appear to be much the same. Ged Martin of Edinburgh...