Taking the air
(Photograph) - Composer Andrew Downes (left), head of composition and creative studies at Birmingham Conservatoire, has composed "Towards a New Age" for the 150th anniversary of the Institution of...
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Small is beautiful for Scots
The Disability Discrimination Act aims to encourage institutions to provide a better service for students with disabilities. Scotland's compactness has allowed the Scottish Higher Education Funding...
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Women chart ocean cycle
Yachtswomen racing around the world for nine months will record details of sea sickness and menstrual cycles to help scientists understand motion sickness. Michael Gresty's team at the Medical...
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Unions flex muscles over pay rise retreat
ߣߣÊÓƵ's main academic union plans to adopt a more aggressive industrial stance towards wage rises and job security. The decision comes as vice chancellors face growing pressure from the...
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Budding engineers go to market
Richard Barry's hope that a cull of so-called weaker engineering faculties, as defined by input standards alone, will produce candidates who will take up training to be skilled engineering craftsmen...
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When the quality of mercy is strained
In the wake of the judiciary's decision not to pursue a second Maxwell trial because of the level of public prejudice, Michael Levi asks if it is time to replace trial by jury in cases of fraud. The...
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Debt hits former polytechnics hardest
Debt levels are rising among higher education institutions, with the former polytechnics carrying the largest burden, according to a new financial guide to the sector. This reinforces funding council...
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Silent partner
This week's alumnus to be proud of is unlikely to reach for his learned friends on the basis of what follows. Neil Hamilton, the former minister who this week abandoned a legal action against The...
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Cut engineering, say employers
Graham Mackenzie, director general of the Engineering Employers Federation, has called for a shakeout of engineering courses in universities. He says that there is "certainly overcapacity" in...
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Anger over Algerian's deportation
Students and staff at Nanterre University near Paris are up in arms over the deportation of a postgraduate Algerian law student. There has been no news of Rabah Bellil since he was picked up by...
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Women storm male Citadel
Two years after Shannon Faulkner won her legal battle to open the doors of an elite military training college to women, the first female cadets admitted under a United States Supreme Court order were...
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The CVCP at a watershed
A managed market gives the committee its best chance of survival. Planning or a free market could break it up, say Ted Tapper and Brian Salter. One of the more interesting aspects of the contemporary...
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Bad genes uncovered
David King reports on the dilemma facing the insurance industry as genetic tests that can predict susceptibility to disease pit insurers against the insured. Put yourself in the following position:...
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Greenwich opens PFI site
The Government's Private Finance Initiative received a boost this week when Greenwich University opened the first PFI-funded building in the higher education sector. The Pounds 12 million student...
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Seventy head for the red
Most English higher education institutions are about to fall into deficit, according to an analysis of their financial positions released this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for England...