Natfhe calls for academic boycott of Derby
LECTURERS' union Natfhe has voted for a national academic boycott of the University of Derby in protest at restructuring in the school of engineering, where some staff must reapply for their jobs.
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Monkey business
(Photograph) - Monkey business: A group of academics who oppose scientific experiments on great apes has won support for its campaign to change the law. Led by Reading University postgraduate...
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HEFCE switches PFI project focus
THE HIGHER Education Funding Council for England is considering the launch of a second round of trial projects under the Private Finance Initiative. It is likely to focus on private provision of...
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Shephard predicts cheaper Internet access
INTERNET access for colleges will be improved and cheaper, Education Secretary Gillian Shephard announced this week. Oftel's Education and Public Access Points Task Force has put pressure on the...
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Axe over 80 jobs at deficit-hit Swansea
About 80 lecturers, academic-related and support staff at the University of Wales Swansea are facing redundancy as the institution tackles a projected deficit of up to Pounds 4 million next year. The...
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Youth packs degree punch
French students' performance at university bears a strong correlation to their secondary school record, according to a study by the education ministry's department for assessments and forecasts. In a...
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Europe takes Italy to task
TOP-LEVEL talks between the European Parliament and the Italian government and university rectors were taking place this week to resolve the deadlock over the alleged maltreatment of foreign language...
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Lagoon campus steams ahead
PLANS TO establish an international university campus on the lagoon island of San Servolo between Venice and the Lido are forging ahead and regular courses are scheduled for the 1997/98 academic year...
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Kept in the dark, tasting of nothing
Do you know why those little white mushrooms on supermarket shelves are so tasteless? I once met a mushroom farmer who explained: "We used to take 16 weeks to grow them but with new fertilisers we...
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A graceful slide to cheap 'n' nasty
Last autumn the Government was successfully bullied by higher education into supplying an extra Pounds 100 million to mitigate planned cuts this year: the price of persuading higher education to wait...
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Dolly is just cloning around
Dolly the cloned sheep has this week provided a new cause for angst. How are we to assess the dangers and the promise of such developments? The irony of our age is that as science advances, unreason...
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A cry for freedom
MAYBE if J. D. Jacobs and Douglas Trainer looked behind their own rhetoric when challenging my commitment to free speech they would find that it is not something that has been fought for by...
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Assessment reassessed
As Pounds 3,405 million of research funding is distributed according to the 1996 RAE ratings, THES readers examine the flawed basis of its judgements In the year since I wrote in The THES about the...
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It's not unusual
According to the leaked external audit, "The payment of fees to members of administration staff is unusual" (THES, February 21). An interesting choice of words, which raises a simple question: Why is...
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Teachers in exile
The chief executive of the Teacher Training Agency's claims (THES, February 21) that "initial teacher training is not an academic study, and therefore, an intrinsic part of higher education". When...