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The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: *The total number of academic staff was 126,582, an increase of 10 per cent on the previous year *86 per cent of staff in...
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Scottish further education warms to PFI
SCOTLAND'S further education sector has consolidated its Private Finance Initiative success with the launch of a new Pounds 15 million campus for West Lothian College. This is only the second further...
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Wales restructures to safeguard federation
THE UNIVERSITY of Wales council has approved a reorganisation of academic structures, including the devolution of several functions to the eight member institutions. It is hoped the change will end a...
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Lifelong learning submissions called for
TESSA Blackstone, education and employment minister, called this week for submissions to a government white paper on lifelong learning that is pencilled in for late October. In May, the Government...
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Exeter rethinks planned job losses
PLANS to axe more than 100 jobs at Exeter University have been referred back by the university's senate to its academic policy committee, which drew up the restructuring proposals. Changes to the...
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Charity fraud investigations on the increase
THE ANNUAL income of registered charities in England and Wales is estimated by the Charities Commission to be Pounds 18 billion. The commission's report for 1996 says that more than 40 per cent of...
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'Mad sheep' disease gets research funding
A Pounds 3.8 MILLION grant for research into scrapie, the sheep equivalent of "mad cow disease", has been announced. The funding, from the Medical Research Council and the Biotechnology and...
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Verdict on new food standards agency due
FINAL comments on the James report, which recommends the establishment of an independent Food Standards Agency, are due this week. The initial report, published last month by Professor Philip James...
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Desire for discovery must be preserved: Ogilvie
CHILDREN'S enthusiasm for discovery must not be smothered by poor pay, prospects and social standing, warns Dame Bridget Ogilvie, director of the Wellcome Trust. Writing in the Trust's annual review...
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Fellows object to museum development plans
CONTROVERSIAL plans to develop the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge are to be put to a vote next month. Fellows at Cambridge University's Peterhouse College, neighbours of the Fitzwilliam, have...
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Oxford Said yes
ONS, lawyers and businessmen this week lent their ears to the final act of Oxford University's business school drama, performed at the city's Sheldonian Theatre. Some came to reject Wafic Said, some...
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Ropas boost the basics
BLUE-SKY research projects worth Pounds 19.5 million won government backing this week as part of an initiative to encourage links between universities and industry. In all, 233 basic research...
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Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology report
Transferring money between higher education funding and research councils could be seen as merely "moving deckchairs on the national research ship", not addressing - and possibly exacerbating - the...
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Research papers
Research papers relating to the stories on this page (where indicated) can be found through THESIS, The THES Internet Service at: http://thesis.newsint.co.uk
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Foetuses feel the rhythm
Three research projects reveal the many roles music can play MUSIC may prove the key to detecting learning difficulties in children while they are still in the womb. Research at the University of...