New technology
Sir Graham Hills, academic adviser to the Highlands project and former principal of Strathclyde University, says new technology could underpin a university in Dumfries in the south-west of Scotland....
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Loans assent
The Student Loans Bill, which allows private lenders to receive Government subsidies to offer student loans, received Royal Assent this week. The Government hopes the first private loans will be...
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Cutting letter
Staff and students at the University of Wales, Cardiff, have written to Welsh MPs expressing "serious concern" over funding cuts in higher education. In a letter signed by vice chancellor Brian Smith...
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Gas windfall
A firm specialising in gas sensor technology set up by two academics in the late 1970s is set to make them multi-millionaires when it is floated on the Stock Exchange in June with a valuation of...
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Sotheby's degree
Sotheby's, which last week made a mint staging the sale of Jackie Kennedy Onassis's jewellery, is set to profit again when it offers a degree course in fine and decorative art. The BA degree, to be...
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FE begs for cuts of 2% max
Efficiency savings demanded of the college sector need to be relaxed from 5 per cent a year to a maximum of 2 per cent to prevent serious damage to further education, the Department for Education and...
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Increase in student numbers
Full-time students in further education colleges and sixth-form colleges increased by 6 per cent between November 1994 and November 1995 according to the first returns from the new student data...
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Sectarianism alive in Ulster colleges
Protestants in Northern Ireland are travelling up to 25 miles to avoid studying in the same universities and colleges as Catholics, a conference has been told. Queen's University and Univer-sity of...
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Orbit gambit
Ropelike plumes, and hairlike jets of gas that stream through the sun's atmosphere at 450 kilometres a second, have been pictured in unprecedented detail by a new observatory balanced in space...
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Giant leap in new recruits is deceptive
Enrolments in higher education grew by 6 per cent this academic year compared with 1994/95, figures published this week show, writes Tony Tysome. Recruitment to both first degree and postgraduate...
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IT's the tops for funding
Information technology, materials science and chemistry have won large slices of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's funding for research in 1996/97. Announcing the funding for...
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NRI takeover is a 'model for others'
The first takeover of a public sector research establishment by a university happened this week when Greenwich University officially took possession of the Natural ߣߣÊÓƵ Institute from the...
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Stirling accused of racial bias
The National Union of Students Scotland and Central Scotland Racial Equality Council are investigating Stirling University's treatment of an Ethiopian research student who failed a PhD. Wondimu...
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Growing up fast
Edinburgh University's centre for human ecology last week held a press conference protesting against the previous day's announcement by the university that it was unlikely to renew the contracts of...
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Noteworthy cause
If musical accompaniment is an essential element in all decent crusades, possibly the least surprising announcement of the year is that the Campaign for Free Education is planning a CD to raise funds...