Text book dilemma for SSEES
A funding council "anomaly" has forced an across-the-board early retirement programme at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, its director said this week. SSEES lost Pounds 250,000 in...
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University of Nottingham and AUT issue a joint statement over job losses
The University of Nottingham and the AUT have taken the unusual step of issuing a joint statement over job losses. They have reassured staff that none will face compulsory redundancy over research...
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Slings and arrows
Natfhe's 1997 conference must go down as one of the oddest in living memory - which, given the wealth of collective experience, is a very long time. In what were almost surreal circumstances, the...
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A new slant
Just as Dundee University's two student newspapers are considering a merger, archives assistant Michael Bolik has unearthed a student magazine from 1922 which reveals one contributor violently...
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Post haste
Like Madam Speaker and the staff of Hansard, we are having trouble working out who the new MPs are. A missive from the University of Warwick chides us for omitting it from our list of universities...
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Widdershins
In the interests of political and gender balance, the alumnus to be proud of No. 108 is a Tory alumna, best known for her role in the far-from-accidental demise of a would-be prime minister. Michael...
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Contest goes from bad to worst
A Professor of comparative literature at Duke University in the United States is the winner of the third Bad Writing Contest, sponsored by the journal Philosophy and Literature and its Internet...
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A night's escort duty on the Pine-Park interchange
It was a mild spring night and Karen Pelley, Chantal Maynard and I were wearing bright red Walksafe jackets as we patrolled through a square-mile zone on a four-hour Friday shift. One of the two...
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Novelist goes for lottery cash to cast net wider
Despite the fact that novelist Sue Thomas reads books on her pocket organiser and publishes her work on the Internet she takes issue with colleagues who fear the death of the book. Ms Thomas,...
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Rape victim walks safely
Canadian's idea leads Newcastle women to take back the night .. with an escort When Sandra Dunkin heard there had been a rape on campus at Newcastle University her thoughts flashed back to her own...
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Awarder bids open
Universities have been invited to apply for awarding-body status for National Vocational Qualifications by Nick Tate, chief executive of the new Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. Higher...
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Good diet makes body run better
ATHLETES should pay more attention to eating a balanced diet rather than seeking quick-fix performance enhancing solutions, according to the latest nutritional research. Nutritionalists say sports...
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Footballers not top of pay league
MOST professional footballers are not nearly as rich as we think, a national study has found. The popular image of the millionaire football superstar, such as Eric Cantona, hides the reality for many...
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Place in the sun
(Photograph) - Place in the sun: Peter Attwell, a final-year mature student at Plymouth University's school of electronic, communication and electrical engineering, has developed a mobile dish which...
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Sports scientists perfecting computer programme to improve coaching techniques
Sports scientists at Liverpool John Moores University are close to perfecting an innovative computer program that could greatly improve coaching techniques by analysing the performance of footballers...