New trusts down to a trickle
The rate at which grant-making trusts are set up has slowed dramatically over the past few years following a 20 per cent drop in the 1980s, according to the Charities Aid Foundation. For the past...
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Law teachers `too specialised'
Law teachers in universities and colleges need more professional development training to deliver the broader curriculum recommended by the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education,...
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Cantona clash linked to football racism
The storm that has blown up over the clash between Manchester United's French soccer star Eric Cantona and a supporter may be a reflection of nationalistic tensions among football followers,...
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Ministry probes cost of hip surgery
The Department of Health has awarded Pounds 250,000 to medical researchers at Leicester University to carry out a two-year investigation into the popular but costly hip replacement operation. Around...
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Crime victims biting back
Recorded crime in Huddersfield is down 30 per cent after the first three months of a Manchester University project aimed at preventing repeat victimisation. And the lessons learned may allow crime...
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Rise of a SuperTEC
The break-up of the bankrupt South Thames Training and Enterprise Council has prompted a restructuring of TECs that could lead to the creation of a super-TEC for London. Employment minister James...
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Robot built to lend a hand in knee operation
Mechanical engineers at Imperial College are developing a robot that promises to help surgeons lessen their reliance on an array of jigs and fixtures and achieve greater accuracy when carrying out...
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College closures floated in Ulster
Ulster's further education colleges - already reduced from 24 to 17 after a series of mergers - should be cut again, a report from the province's economic council has urged. The report on Northern...
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Licence to rent urged
Nearly half a million students living in the private-rented sector stand to benefit from proposals to be submitted next week by the National Union of Students to the Department of the Environment....
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Class Act
(Photograph) - Class Act: Savourna Stevenson taking one of a series of master classes with the clarsach, a traditional Celtic harp, at the Celtic Connections festival run by the University of...
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Sud's lore
More academic soaps nominated by Mary Bryden of the faculty of letters and social sciences at Reading University - for literacy courses Bookside, for communications 榴莲视频 and A Way With Words, for...
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Short-sighted
Those wanting to know how the Association for Colleges got that way now have a simple answer - they are all visionaries. A staff training day devoted to finding the best ways of working together...
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Dino saw
Neil Clark, curator of paleontology at Glasgow University's Hunterian museum, has a reputation as a leading commentator on dinosaur fossils and eggs. So much so that the Bearsden and Milgavie Courier...
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Suggestions that Americans might be a touch parochial have received support from an impeccably American source. That distinctly lively journal, Lingua Franca, points with horror to a Carnegie...
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Finance is colleges' weakness
Management failures of the sort that affected Derby Wilmorton and St Philip's colleges are atypical of the further education sector but there is still room for improvement, a National Audit Office...