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UNIVERSITY OF LUTON. Dr H. Dean and Margaret Melrose, Pounds 62,000 from the Economic and Social Research Council (project entitled Poverty, Wealth and Citizenship). UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE Research...
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Honorary degrees
NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY. DBA: Michael Bishop, chairman of Airlines of Britain Holdings plc. DDes: Jeff Banks, fashion designer and TV presenter; Richard Rowan, president of the Savannah College...
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Derby plots FE/HE merger
Derby University has been holding secret merger talks with five neighbouring further education colleges which could lead to a unique post-16 system for 50,000 students by 1998. The plans have taken...
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Funding council cuts enrolment growth
Student growth in further education colleges is to be scaled down to 3 per cent next year (1996/97) following a decision announced today by the Further Education Funding Council. The news will take...
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Fair genes for fowl?
The debate is raging over whether genetically altered animals can be patented, Aisling Irwin reports. It is small and furry and designed to develop cancer. It is the oncomouse and it is unaware,...
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'Right wing' German history disowned
The editors of a multi-volume history of Germany are demanding that the publisher include a note in the latest volume on the National Socialist period distancing them from the views it expresses....
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'Secret' advice on real loan rate for students
A "secretive" and influential working group has advised the Government to charge students a real rate of interest on loans. The group, whose members include representatives from the Bank of England,...
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Stones may be meteor mapper
The first Stonehenge was built to observe terrifying meteor storms plaguing the skies - and may have been part of a massive cultural change as people united to cope, an astronomer has claimed. The...
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Ashworth the player seeks fresh pitch
The THES called him "The vice chancellor who personified the new entrepreneurial spirit of higher education in the 1980s". But the latter part of this decade may find John Ashworth out of higher...
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The devil we may not know
(Photograph) - The devil we may not know: Robocop is not an image usually associated with Old Nick, but some detect in his high-tech protruberances vestiges of the talons and torments of medieval...
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Vcs fight on funding
Vice chancellors are to campaign for a change in the funding basis for higher education following the cuts imposed in the budget. Last week members of the main committee of the Committee of Vice...
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Banks like to Learn
Commercial banks and policy makers have expressed an interest a Learning Bank, an idea which is being considered by the Labour Party. A discussion paper which describes how a Learning Bank might...
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Gagging clause under fire
A confidentiality clause in the contract the Higher Education Funding Council for England offers to quality assessors is to be submitted as evidence to the Nolan inquiry on standards in public life....
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Final demand
(Photograph) - University of London staff last week presented their employer with a demand for Pounds 150 each. Unions MSF, Unison and the Association of University Teachers say that the London...
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Pounds 4m carrot dangled for good teaching
A Pounds 4 million funding programme aimed at rewarding teaching quality has got the go-ahead from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Seen as a possible stalking horse for a teaching...