Single umbrella idea for colleges
The Association for Colleges started this week to consult its members on whether there should be a single body to speak for the sector. The association believes that the Colleges Employers Forum,...
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M'learned friends row
University law teachers and the College of Law have clashed over professional conversion courses for non-law graduates hoping to become barristers or solicitors. The Society of Public Teachers of Law...
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Non-medical scientists sucked into industry
Medical research departments are failing to keep hold of non-medical scientists because of their severe lack of career structure, the committee heard, writes Aisling Irwin. Post-doctoral basic...
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Medical charities want more say in decisions
The expansion of the Wellcome Trust has led to renewed calls for a forum to monitor medical research policy. The forum would enable all major funders of medical research to overcome the fragmented...
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Oxbridge fee review call
The Labour Party launched a fresh assault on Oxbridge funding this week as details emerged of how new arrangements for setting controversial college fees were worked out. Bryan Davies, Labour's...
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Research cash up for grabs by firms
Research council money which now goes to universities would be available for bids from industry under proposals being considered by the Office of Science and Technology. The Engineering and Physical...
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Going up
(Photograph) - Going up: John Horam, MP for Orpington, Kent, was this week appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for the Office of Science and Technology. Mr Horam, aged 56, has replaced Robert Hughes...
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Photo synthesis
(Photograph) - Photo synthesis: Artist Ray Lee, who teaches on Nottingham Trent University's contemporary arts degree, seen with Building Better Humans, his giant colour photographic print on display...
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Exam marks protest
Students and lecturers at the University of East Anglia's school of modern languages and European studies this week protested about the downgrading of marks awarded to more than 300 students for...
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Britannia tries to rule the brain waves
Britain is making renewed efforts to sell its further and higher education "products" in up to 30 expanding export markets where competition is fierce. The Department of Trade and Industry and the...
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'No confidence' catches on
Further education lecturers held strikes across the country this week in the contracts dispute which has contributed to 70 separate votes of no confidence in management at colleges since September....
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Kenya condemned for attacking critics
A Kenyan academic suspended for comments made at a conference in South Africa has won support from an international meeting of university teacher associations. Delegates at the International...
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Who chopped down the cherry tree?
Allan Winkler describes the furore unleashed when the US tried to establish guidelines for teaching history. Teaching history in America these days is not for the faint-hearted. Recently released...
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Amazed by muscular fleas
Aisling Irwin reports on a project that aims to capture on film the obsessive wonder of scientists for the natural world. Can you remember when, as a child, you were filled with wonder at the world?...
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A child of our time
Julian Philips surveys the life of English composer, pacifist and nonagenarian writer of rap, Sir Michael Tippett. Earlier this year, one of Britain's most remarkable composers celebrated his...