Ulster brain drain poll
The Northern Ireland Higher Education Council has launched a new investigation into the brain drain from the province. It will focus on whether the proposed new University of Ulster campus in west...
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Scots FE pay talks abandoned
National negotiations for Scotland's 43 further education colleges ended this week, with the major staff union warning of imminent industrial action. The Employers' Association for Scottish Further...
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Improving marine safety
Reducing high levels of deaths and injuries at sea is the aim of a Pounds 1.5 million maritime safety research centre being established at Cardiff University's department of maritime studies. An...
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Noble prize
Literary sideswipes reach three figures with the help of Walter Redfern from the French department at Reading University, who spotted Salvador Dali in characteristically bizarrely scatalogical mode...
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Shome mishtake
The latest issue of Press & Publication News from the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals apologises profusely for a wrong attribution in a previous report based on a newspaper...
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Highland fling
The Scottish Office may pour cold water on the prospect of a new University of the Highlands being set up, but are there signs that existing institutions are taking the scheme a little more seriously...
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No sex please
The zillions of forms sent out by the Office of Science and Technology as part of the process of collecting views on technology Foresight had, as you would expect, two boxes for declaring whether the...
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We have lift-off
Only a couple of weeks after Roger Bonnet, head of the European Space Agency's science programme, claimed that Britain wanted a "20 to 50 per cent" cut in the funding of space research; the British...
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Sheffield steel
The barricades will be going up along the Eccleshall Road as Sheffield's two universities prepare to slug it out for the chairmanship of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. Nominations...
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Information
There is now an opportunity to include more listings in Noticeboard and on the new Internet listings service NetGazette. The newspaper version of Noticeboard will continue to focus on the UK with the...
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How do you moo?
And hello to the director of the Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust, Mr Bullock.
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a chemist: ". . . This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of the me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within it the atom in question...
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Speaking Volumes: Tom Paine's Pamphlets
Harvey J. Kaye on Tom Paine's Pamphlets. I have testified in these pages and elsewhere to the influence upon me of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class, Barrington Moore's Social...
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A credit to the bank
Labor Markets and Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe
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A hot little sister
Venus