Appointments
SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Garth Foster, chairman for the Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union, has been appointed head of the environmental sciences department at the...
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Learning power
(Photograph) - This table, compiled by The THES, lists the outcomes of the teaching quality assessment exercise carried out in English universities and colleges by the Higher Education Funding...
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Nations and Nationalism
The journal Nations and Nationalism, reviewed in The THES on October 20, has five editors not four as listed. The fifth editor is Kelvin Knight.
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A winning ticket
In a competitive age, the more informed and knowledgeable the manager, the better the decision, argue David Knights and Chris Green. In these times of limited funds from the state, many academics are...
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Praise be Ford
Ken Mortimer argues that staff development in the car company giant is a prerequisite to survival in the brave new world of technology. Twenty-five years ago Ford was known as one of the best...
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HEBE set to close
Higher Education Business Enterprises Ltd, the higher education information agency, is set for closure. Today's meeting of the council of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, joint...
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Balkan briefs: Albanian students
(Photograph) - Balkan briefs: high powered Albanian students including a judge and two "inspectors of law" set to work on the gruelling one-year common professional examination being offered by the...
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Patent battle over life
Academics have joined a campaign against the patenting of life forms in the lead up to two important European decisions on patents. The campaign, run by the Genetics Forum, involves the signing of a...
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Hepatitis B screening 'unfair to students'
Revised medical school guidelines on screening applicants for the hepatitis B virus continue to discriminate against students compared with health workers, according to medical student leaders. The...
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Internet news
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication. The New...
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Care centre urged
Ian Bouchier, chief scientist at the Scottish Office home and health department, said this week that Scotland should consider establishing an academic centre for research in primary care and general...
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Postgrad support
In the academic year 1993-94, there were 43,800 postgraduate award holders in the UK, 22 per cent of the postgraduate population. In England 9,267 postgraduate students received support from access...
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Cheltenham debut
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education launched a new centre of policy and health research yesterday. Helping people cope with motor neurone disease will be one of its main areas of...
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Safe sex for closet readers
The quality of the writing on the back of lavatory doors in Scottish seats of learning is about to improve dramatically. Posters bearing arresting extracts from contemporary fiction, including The...
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Survey dispels ageing staff fears
Fears of a demographic crisis in English universities have been dispelled by a staff survey released this week. The figures contained in the report from the Higher Education Funding Council for...