Scots unions slam fees
THE SCOTTISH Trades Union Congress has condemned government plans for student fees as "ill-considered and regressive" and deplored the Dearing committee's recommendation of tuition fees. The STUC,...
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TUC urged to seek cuts talks
DEMANDS from higher education unions for an urgent meeting with Chancellor Gordon Brown and Education Secretary David Blunkett over funding plans are expected to win the backing of the Trades Union...
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Particle collisions
With four research council chief executives due to come to the end of their terms of office in March, there is plenty of speculation as to who will be staying, coming and going. Among those who could...
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Splintered students
Students have formed a united, coherent and powerful front against tuition fees... Now back to reality. The official NUS line is for income-contingent loans, although the union deviated from this...
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Fall guys and girls
The Labour party seems to have used the parliamentary recess to watch enough police movies to perfect its good cop, bad cop act. The Machiavellian manoeuverings of Peter Mandelson enhance the...
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Skeletons in the library
The University of Abertay Dundee had better make the most of its Scottish Higher Education Funding Council monies while it can. A Scottish parliament is likely to mean closer scrutiny of higher...
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Brotherly skulduggery
At St Andrew's University, helping dig up old bones is all in a day's work. For last weekend's return of an Aboriginal chief's skull to his tribe in West ߣߣÊÓƵ, the Home Office enlisted the help...
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Hanging beauties
Supermodels they are not, but the faces of alumni Nos 132 and 133 have been emblazoned across Scottish poster sites recently. The pinups of the No campaign in next week's referendum are Labour's...
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Oxfordwomen receive Pounds 2m in gifts
OXFORD's last all-women college is to get nearly Pounds 2 million in donations, but is still seeking support for science and engineering teaching, says its principal. St Hilda's College, which...
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Joint projects guidance
A NEW guide for universities and businesses embarking on joint research projects will be launched next week to help promote best practice. AURIL, the Association for University Research Industry and...
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Chinese open door to students
MAINLAND China is courting Hong Kong students following the return of the former British colony. The State Education Commission has given leave to mainland universities and colleges to offer an...
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Feet first: South Korea's Jim Taek Lee
(Photograph) - Feet first: South Korea's Jim Taek Lee smiles with his national flag after winning the high jump final in the World Student Games being held in Catania, Sicily, last week. He won the...
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Women losing out in science
MORE THAN one third of female science graduates are employed in jobs for which they are overqualified, according to research published this week, writes Julia Hinde. Thirty-two per cent of employed...
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Culture crackers
(Photograph) - Art and science mix this week as the Y Touring Theatre Company brings the trauma of mental illness to the British Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Leeds....
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Scientists' image 'too polarised '
A BRITISH psychologist will call next week for science to be "normalised, not demonised". Helen Haste, head of psychology at the University of Bath, will tell a conference to mark the British Society...