Critical Ward
The West Midlands region of Natfhe is protesting against the CBE for Roger Ward, chief executive of the Colleges Employers Forum, claiming that his influence on further and higher education has been...
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Colleges lose EC cash fight
Halton College in Cheshire has lost a High Court battle to recover more than Pounds 3 million from its county council following a row over European funding. The college claimed that financial...
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Diet guide for students
They may be the most unlikely group to suffer from post-Christmas bulge, but many undergraduates would benefit from a New Year's healthy eating resolution, according to student welfare watchdogs at...
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Dock landed
Liverpool John Moores University signed an agreement this week with property firm London and General to take part in a Pounds 100 million science and technology park development in Birkenhead. The...
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Animals saved
Scientists at Dundee University have this week reported the promising first-year results of a Pounds 3 million drug development programme which is expect to reduce radically the use of laboratory...
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Grant pledge snub
The Government came under fire from local authorities and education charities this week for breaking a promise to review discretionary awards before the New Year. Information issued recently by the...
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There she blows
(Photograph) - The Royal Yachting Association's Seamanship Foundation has donated six Hunter Duette yachts to Southampton Institute to run the Young Skippers scheme. They are just part of a donation...
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Gene genius
Two British researchers are among the winners of the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine. Robin Lovell-Badge of the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research and Peter...
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Surplus millions
Southampton University's annual surplus more than doubled in the academic year 1993/94, rising from Pounds 3.5 million to Pounds 8.1 million. Pounds 2.3 million came from the release of an over-...
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Oz option
The Labour Party's favoured option for a student charge is a system based on the Australian higher education contribution scheme, under which each student pays a portion of their tuition costs...
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Oxford loses scholar
Philip Alexander, president of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, rocked in recent months by a row over Yiddish studies, has resigned to return to Manchester University. Professor...
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THES taps into academic interest on the Net
The majority of British academics, even in the least technological disciplines, are users of advanced computer-based communications technology, according to a THES survey of readers. More than 85 per...
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V-cs favour HEQC
Vice chancellors want a new quality regime based on the "success" of the Higher Education Quality Council rather than the "mess" presided over by the Higher Education Funding Council for England....
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Noah's arc
(Photograph) - The Tyne Bridge makes an unfamiliar background for Mongezi Noah, a lecturer from South Africa's Fort Hare University studying for a doctorate at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College...
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Quality official predicts failures
More universities will face the prospect of departments receiving the equivalent of "unsatisfactory" quality gradings when the Higher Education Funding Council for England introduces its new system...