Appointments
University and Colleges Admissions Service Michael Goldstein, vice chancellor of Coventry University, has been elected chairman. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council David White,...
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Awards
The British Universities and Colleges Physical Education Association The BUCPEA David Munrow Award in recognition of distinguished services to sports science was presented to Clyde Williams,...
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Unions push on pay front
LECTURERS may launch a campaign of industrial action early in the new year after chancellor Gordon Brown dashed public sector pay hopes. The Association of University Teachers warned this week of a...
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Raid reveals 17 illegal British lecturers
IMMIGRATION officers are checking all private higher education colleges in Malaysia after a raid last week exposed 23 illegal lecturers, 17 of them British. The lecturers, aged between 26 and 47,...
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Derby's dreams shattered
DERBY University's ambitious scheme to transform itself into Britain's first "colliversity" by merging with nearby colleges was in tatters this week as the key player pulled out without warning....
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Making up takes time to do
Universities in the Canary Islands have learned the benefits of working together. Rebecca Warden reports Six YEARS ago the two universities of the Canary Islands were not on speaking terms - one...
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Daily exercises keep the clock running
People who live longer do not have to fear a decrepit old age if they just keep active, say scientists Dorothy Dobson, Dundee University assistant director of physical education, pioneered exercise...
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Brown dwarf stars
Universities in the Canary Islands have learned the benefits of working together. Rebecca Warden reports THE Astrophysics Institute of the Canaries was founded in the 1960s when Spain's first...
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More funds to go via HEFCE
University and college funding. THES reporters assess the impact of the chancellor's pre-budget statement Quango chiefs will have a firmer hold on higher education's purse-strings under funding...
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Alzheimer's gene link to the heart
People who live longer do not have to fear a decrepit old age if they just keep active, say scientists TAKING action to protect against heart disease could also help protect people against Alzheimer'...
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No sell-by date for exercise
People who live longer do not have to fear a decrepit old age if they just keep active, say scientists THE IMAGE of old age is one of increasing physical weakness as muscles gradually deteriorate and...
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Dead reckoning
(Photograph) - Julie Rigg of the Cemetery Research Group at the University of York has just researched and edited the Directory of Cemeteries and Crematoria in the United Kingdom. Photo: Samuel...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: 0.7 per cent of first degree, full-time undergraduates are dyslexic 0.2 per cent of all first degree, full-time...
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Ill wind
(Photograph) - Sailing students from Southampton University struggle to righten their boat in the Student Dinghy National Championships. The university took the team prize after strong winds in...
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A healthy partnership
It was good to see coverage of the changes in non-medical education and training (THES, November 21). Thousands of students are involved in NHS-contracted education. There may well be "alarm at...