Central planning agency need not rule out diversity
Your leader (THES, October 20) rejects the call for a central higher education planning agency. You are surely right to doubt the efficacy of the proposal; but you seemed to have missed the main...
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Top-flight cooperation
Airbus Industrie
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Agony aunt
Q) I was recently appointed the first woman head of our department and am already detecting jealousy among some of my male colleagues. What is the best way to handle the problem without alienating my...
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Honorary Degrees
University of East London DUniv: Issa Shivji, professor of law at the University of Dar es Salaam; Hans Hoxter, pioneer in the training and education of counsellors; David Austin, rose breeder;...
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Portillo dashes training cash hope
Any hope of a November Budget handout for industry-led training was dashed this week by Michael Portillo, Secretary of State for Employment. Mr Portillo was responding to criticism from Sir Clifford...
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Lifelong Learning
This is an abridged and edited version of the report of the National Advisory Group for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning The agenda There are ten points we believe can be achieved within...
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Appointments
University of Leeds Os Finnie, finance director of a company within the Blackwell publishing group, general manager of finance; Jim Parry, dean for student support from August 1, 1998: Robert Sladdin...
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Themeless pudding
Contemporary Europe and the Atlantic Alliance
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Smooth oil for troubled waters
Aberdeen University could help prevent a rerun of the Brent Spar controversy, in which Shell and Greenpeace clashed over the strategy for decommissioning the floating oil installation, with a new...
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Japan acts to plug its IT gap
The Japanese parliament has passed a new Science and Technology Law in an attempt to secure better funding for university and other public sector research work. Funding for science, the new law...
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Media courses scrapped in shake-up at BFI
The British Film Institute is pulling out of its involvement in providing media degree courses as part of a big shake-up of its education programme. The institute currently delivers an MA in film and...
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Weave ideas for material change
Organisational learning is far more difficult to achieve than individual learning, since knowledge has to be shared and woven into an institution's very fabric. Ideally, organisational learning...
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AUT call to action over pay
The Association of University Teachers has agreed to prepare for industrial action, including one-day strikes, if its pay demands are not met, writes Harriet Swain. Members at the winter council...
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Talent-spotting for equity and excellence
The University of Cape Town is taking radical steps to prove that excellence is not the preserve of white males, says vice-chancellor Mampehla Ramphele Will all the civil wars, bombs and industrial...
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Shephard rounds up Employment
The Government has scrapped the Employment Department and divided its duties between the Department for Education and the Department of Trade and Industry. In this week's Cabinet reshuffle, Gillian...