Tiller girls shortage
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle STRICT segregation of the sexes may have played a part in the decline of Athens, a...
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By hook or by Crooks
(Photograph) - By hook or by Crooks: 22-year-old Lara Crooks has become the University of Wolverhampton's first deaf student to achieve the National Pool Lifeguard qualification. She trained with the...
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Unions hail pensions climbdown
MINISTERS have postponed changes to early-retirement payments for lecturers in colleges and new universities in a climbdown heralded as a campaigning triumph by teaching unions. The proposed changes...
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Freestyle policy limbo for students
Thousands of university students all over Italy are in a bureaucratic limbo because law courts, legislators and university authorities have failed to adopt a common policy on limited admission to...
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Students return to science...
University science courses have escalated in popularity, according to figures released today by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service for 1997 entry. Record numbers of applications for...
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Students return to science ... but shun West Midlands
The North West Midlands is suffering a bout of unpopularity among prospective students according to an unofficial league table of applications that will dismay admissions officers in the region, A...
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EU in bid 'to enslave nature'
The foundations of scientific research are being threatened by a proposed new European directive that may lead to the patenting of all of nature, according to British scientists. In a letter to the...
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Union puts squeeze on MPs' marginals
THE Association of University Teachers has launched a general election offensive on 16 marginal constituencies, warning sitting MPs and parliamentary candidates that they ignore pay and other higher...
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Colleges ponder funding options
AROUND 800 colleges across England were this week asked to consider alternative funding measures in the wake of the Goverment's decision to axe the demand-led element of college funding. The Further...
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Council pledges Pounds 8m to enhance teaching
SCHEMES to improve personal and academic support of students, develop postgraduate teaching skills and help peripatetic music staff are among 44 new projects designed to boost teaching. The Higher...
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PFI database registers 200-project increase
The number of universities registering formal interest in the Private Finance Initiative has grown by 19 per cent in the past three months. A total of 75 institutions have put forward upwards of 200...
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Shephard stands by appointment procedures
Gillian Shephard, the secretary of state for education and employment, has defended the practice of appointing heads of institutions to the funding councils and of retaining Training and Enterprise...
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Eight selected for quality agency board
Eight directors have been named for the new single quality agency for higher education: Ian Graham-Bryce, principal, University of Dundee; Haydn Ellis, pro-vice chancellor, University of Wales,...
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Labour will end maintenance grants - Blunkett
Labour will abolish maintenance grants for students and reform the student loans scheme, shadow education and employment secretary David Blunkett told BBC Radio 4's Analysis programme set to be...
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BSE eclipses other dementia research
Government money allocated for BSE research would be "infinitely more useful" if it were ploughed into investigating other more common dementia conditions such as Alzheimer's, according to Bob...