Lads of hope and glory
What is it about Oasis that gets to people? Angela McRobbie argues that the group champions the dispossessed male. When a fortysomething academic like myself dreams she is going out with Noel...
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City advert 'stretched the truth'
Advertising standards watchdogs have upheld for the first time a complaint about quality claims made by a university. City University's Centre for Internal Auditing was forced to change an...
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Misery Down Under as budget slashed
The ߣߣÊÓƵn government is to slash Aus$1.8 billion (Pounds 0.9 billion) from the higher education budget over the next three years and radically reshape the way students pay for their tuition in...
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Blackburn's mark
A bid by Blackburn College to gain a Citizen's Charter Mark is being considered by the Government. The college will have to prove it is working to improve quality, choice, and provide "customers"...
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Fission fun
At last the event for those who are tired of all the carping about nuclear power and nuclear weapons and think they are just great. Coming next month, an annual symposium of the splendidly named...
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On your marks for clearing handicap
THES reporters on the annual race of students for places which gets under way this week with hurdles for both sides. Funding targets are set. Students have their marks. And they're off. With...
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Lab becomes new SIM city
Laboratories can now put themselves under the microscope using a software toolkit developed at Glasgow University. Barry Clark and Euan Crawford, of the department of pathological chemistry, have...
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Malaysia approaches open road
The Malaysian government looks set to approve at least two privately-run universities this summer, including an open technical university in Port Dickson and a national institute of engineering in...
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Jobs for the women at Birkbeck
Birkbeck College now has seven female professors. This places us fourth in your league table (THES, July 26) with 15.9 per cent, not joint 29th with 6.8 per cent. The two Oxford academics, Jennifer...
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Pacific overtures
Paul Keating launched ߣߣÊÓƵ towards a republic when he was prime minister. Now a visiting lecturer, he tells Chris Johnston about his hopes for the nation. In the scheme of things, Paul Keating...
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Research masters are meeting expectations
A review of the research masters course launched last year suggests that it is meeting the expectations of many participating students, the Office of Science and Technology and the research councils...
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Poachers open back door to students
Eager admissions tutors are putting the applications system under threat by poaching students during clearing. Universities and Colleges Admissions Service chief executive Tony Higgins claims that "...
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Sudden drop in Bar pass rate prompts inquiry
An inquiry has been launched by the Council of Legal Education into the first significant drop in the pass rate of Bar School students. The CLE announced this week that the proportion of students...
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Grade A tips
Anyone about to enter a North American university and concerned about the criteria in their all-pervasive grading system could do worse than consult Chad Nelson, a graduate student at Simon Fraser...
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Small molecules, big breakthrough
Edinburgh University has joined forces with a clutch of pharmaceutical firms to carry out research that could lead to a better understanding of how small molecules interact with cellular proteins....