GMC attacks medics training
MORE emphasis must be placed on the education and training of young doctors in their year of transition from provisional to full registration, says a report by the General Medical Council. The New...
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Unions fight Inverness cuts
UNIONS at Inverness College were yesterday lobbying the board of management against cuts which they claim will see one in six staff lose their jobs, three outlying sites axed, and the curriculum...
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British Library calls for archive work
THE UNITED Kingdom's national libraries should join forces to ensure a more efficient system of collecting published works, according to the British Library. The library says it is no longer possible...
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Natfhe action wave
A WAVE of industrial action is spreading through further education as colleges prepare to bite the bullet on funding cuts. Staff at more than a dozen colleges are taking industrial action, according...
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Governors censure ex-head
FORMER Stoke-on-Trent College boss Neil Preston faces accusations of bullying, serious misconduct and wilful neglect of his duties in a damning governors' report. It says that Mr Preston was fired...
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Yeovil set to strike
LECTURERS at Yeovil College have passed a vote of no confidence in principal Richard Atkins and are set to strike over new contracts. Natfhe members are angry at the imposition of the contracts by Mr...
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Trading in a literary sphere
A Bibliographic History of the Book - A Genius for Letters
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an eminent Venetian: "Emperors and kings, dukes and marquises, counts,...
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The grammar test
Select, GET asked, the grammatically correct example from the following group: "I am totally disinterested in fashion. I find it boring." "I cannot agree with you about him being selected for the job...
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Notes from a small island
Three academics explain how and why they will vote I support the Conservative party for the same reasons I do West Bromwich Albion - partisan loyalty, a preference for the underdog, and intense...
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Appointments
Coventry University Eulian Roberts, chief executive of Stirling University Innovation Park Limited, has been appointed director of commercial affairs. University of Wolverhampton The management has...
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Alsager Emergency Training College Between 1947 and 1950, the training college was set up to train teachers. Mr J. Collorick is organising a golden jubilee reunion for July 18. Contact: J. Collorick...
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JJ Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/6 reveal that: * 60,405 people qualified in business and administrative studies in 1995/96, the most out of all subjects * 85.1 per cent of...
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Internet
This week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, features the pick of our coverage of the 1997 general election. Included are ourfeatures and news coverage of the election, our map of keyacademic...
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Don's Diary
Thursday I wake up with that sinking feeling. I had resolved to survive the next eight days without stooping to any kind of Titanic punnery, but I have already failed miserably. I wonder, in the...