Collection costs may eat up cash
University and college funding. THES reporters assess the impact of the chancellor's pre-budget statement University finance directors fear that the extra Pounds 125 million provided by government to...
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A pivotal role in raising work skills
University and college funding. THES reporters assess the impact of the chancellor's pre-budget statement Further education will play a key role in the government's plans to address Britain's skills...
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Vice chancellors react angrily to suggestion that students should pay their fee contribution in instalments
University and college funding. THES reporters assess the impact of the chancellor's pre-budget statement Vice chancellors have reacted angrily to a suggestion in Mr Clark's letter that universities...
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Group seeks to improve R&D investment
University and college funding. THES reporters assess the impact of the chancellor's pre-budget statement Ways of increasing UK investment in research and development will be investigated by several...
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Social scientists engineer plan for representative academy
Social scientists are planning to create their own academy to stand alongside the Royal Society, the British Academy and the Royal Academy of Engineering. The council of the Association of Learned...
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Double-U turn
The Liberal Democrats last week welcomed Lord Smith of Clifton of Mountsandel in the County of Londonderry to the Lords. It was a fair choice of title for the vice chancellor of the University of...
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Triesman in pink
Still awaiting the call is David Triesman, general secretary of the Association of University Teachers. But perhaps not for long. At a recent AUT presidential reception Mr Triesman treated the...
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Core asset
Would-be looters of our heritage will find slim pickings in higher education funding, to judge by the National Asset Register published this week by the Treasury. The Higher Education Funding Council...
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Quality street
The latest change in the working habits of John Randall, the very mobile chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency, may interest his desk-bound colleagues in London. Having given some QAA...
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Luke fluke
Good telephone manners at a large provincial university that must remain nameless to protect the guilty. An innocent telephone call from The THES to an academic asking after some of his excellent...
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Malone alone again
Alumnus to be proud of No 149 achieved the worst Conservative result of the year - possibly a greater achievement in 1997 than any other year this century. Gerald Malone, twice loser of Winchester,...
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Big recruiters distort view of jobs market
MAJOR recruiters will offer only a few of the total graduate job openings in future, according to a study by the Institute for Employment Studies. But, says the Sussex University-based research...
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Swansea gives up its attempt to survive alone
Swansea Institute of Higher Education is to abandon the battle for survival as an independent institution and seek a link-up with the University of Wales, Swansea or the University of Glamorgan. A...
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Candid camera
(Photograph) - Glasgow University scientists have developed a three-dimensional camera that could help catch criminals. The 3D-Matic system allows 3-D models to be built from 2-D images, enabling...
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Cambridge bows out
A ROW over "academic snobbery" has erupted in Cambridge, following an 11th-hour decision by the university's board of continuing education to pull out of a collaborative pact with Anglia Polytechnic...