Party paupers
(Photograph) - Student demonstrators made their presence felt during McGill University's 175th anniversary celebrations. The 40 students disrupted the 45-minute opening ceremony and confronted McGill...
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Don't wait, tap the vat for students
Might I suggest that graduates enjoy tax-free status to make up for tuition fees and losses in earnings between the minimum school leaving age and graduation. If the Government believes that there is...
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Ignore the party, think new term
The start of the academic year - shudders of apprehension combined with anticipation. Pity the poor admissions people, accommodation officers and print rooms. Registrars who take in too many students...
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Cancer verdict
The Cancer Research Campaign is expected to announce today whether it will stop funding future research at Cambridge University. This follows the university's acceptance of a Pounds 1.6 million...
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Quality regimes face a mismatch
The proposed quality assurance system for teacher training is completely out of step with the idea of a single quality agency for higher education, it was claimed this week. Many universities and...
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Tensions in fees alliance
Vice chancellors and the National Union of Students made clear the strength of the alliance forged in the campaign to defend higher education, as the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals met...
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Bonking Blairite
It probably will not seriously dent Labour's poll lead, but the comrades gathering at Blackpool for the party conference may like to know that alumnus to be proud of No. 68 - Roderick Wright, the...
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Churches not cross at the crossing
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Laughing yourself to death
Vittoria D'Alessio reports on the social side of a British Psychological Society conference at Strathclyde. Rib-tickling commercials are a powerful and potentially dangerous weapon used by the...
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Street-walking professor settles out of court
A part-time professor who had admitted to working as a prostitute can never again apply for a job from his former employer, Ryerson Polytechnic University, according to an agreed settlement. Gerald...
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Crushed in the machine
G. R. Evans speaks up for the academic freedoms of the individual. I work in an institution where any of the academic staff can stand up and make a speech in the university's "parliament", which is...
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Licence to kill must be revoked
Michael North, whose five-year-old daughter Sophie was killed by Thomas Hamilton at Dunblane with a legally owned handgun, calls for a ban on such weapons. The morning of Wednesday March 13 began for...
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Ballooning for beginners
(Photograph) - New arrivals on Bradford University's MSc in business strategy and environmental management got to know each other in a series of exercises including dropping eggs attached to balloons...
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Not so smart
The academic profession is not known for its sartorial elegance. So an invitation from the Association of University Teachers Scotland to a reception for union stalwart John Duffy really seems to be...
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Teaching vacuum
Universities using postgraduates as cut-price lecturers may be risking the quality of student learning and research, according to a survey. Research by the Association of University Teachers,...