Poetic breakthrough
The science museum has appointed a poet-in-residence to write about its collections and help communicate scientific ideas. The move marks the end of the cold war between science and the arts, and the...
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Russian reels under capitalist threat
Russian teaching is in danger at Edinburgh University following the announcement of the university's 2.6 per cent funding increase from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. The department...
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Medicine for the rich
Medical student leaders have warned that medicine will be for "rich kids" only, following the Government's refusal to recognise their particular financial problems. Sandy Macara, council chairman of...
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Popper's library auctioned
The library of London School of Economics philosopher Sir Karl Popper, which is to be sold by Sotheby's, is expected to fetch Pounds 500,000. Austrian-born Sir Karl, who died last year aged 92,...
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Top reporter
David Charter, who joined The THES in January, was this week named reporter of the year in the Regional Press Awards, sponsored by the UK Press Gazette. The winning articles, in The News, Portsmouth...
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Tribunal delay
An industrial tribunal test case against the Colleges Employers Forum for denying a pay rise to "Silver Book" lecturers has been adjourned for six weeks. Lecturers from Sandwell College are claiming...
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V-cs' pay packages hit six figures
Six-figure pay and pensions packages are becoming commonplace for vice chancellors, a THES survey shows. The survey is based on information disclosed for the first time in the 1993/94 financial...
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Scots FE colleges forced to cut staffing
The threat of compulsory redundancies is looming in Scotland's further education colleges following the latest funding allocations from the Scottish Office Education Department. Falkirk College of...
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LibDems' research plan
The research selectivity exercise should be scrapped and replaced with a new share-the-wealth formula for research funding, suggests Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman. A big...
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Nursing BSc
The University of Abertay Dundee is collaborating with the Royal College of Nursing on a nurse practitioner degree course, the first of its kind in Scotland. The BSc course aims to produce nurses...
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Oxford upgrade
Oxford University dons and senior administrators have backed proposals for a promotions policy that will create hundreds of new professors and readers. A postal ballot of members of the university's...
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Travel loophole
The Scottish Office Education Department is investigating allegations that students are claiming travel expenses fraudulently. Students whose parents live within commuting distance of their college...
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Quickie novel
Luton University politics lecturer Pat Gray this week won the World One Day Novel Cup. Mr Gray wrote his 20,000-word The Political Map of the Heart, which is about his childhood in Belfast, in just...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a friend of Wagner's: "Let me repeat, now that I have reached the end, what I said at the beginning: man would sooner have the void for his purpose than be void of...
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A diplomat with three mothers
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