Cash for libraries means expansion
Study space for 200,000 extra students will come out of the Pounds 45 million handed out for university and college libraries, the Higher Education Funding Council for England said this week. The...
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Heart attacks mapped
A study of the prevalence of heart attacks should help target scarce healthcare resources on those in greatest need. Researchers from Nottingham University's geography department and the division of...
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Expert Nutter
And an extremely warm and wary welcome to Michigan State University's top expert on right-wing extremists, assistant professor John Nutter.
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Rum swizzle
Teetotallers at Southampton University's institute of maritime law helped dispel the rum-swilling image of the seafarer with a conference lunch declared by the international shipping weekly Fairplay...
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Voters' cough
Smoking has caused more complicated problems for Birkbeck College philosophers: when someone demanded that their common room be no-smoking they could not decide on how to decide whether it should....
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Beam me up, Scottie
(Photograph) - Beam me up, Scottie: "Ski-Master", Dominic Plumb's award-winning entry in the Royal Society of Arts design awards at Dean Clough, Halifax, combines this stylish ski-hat with an...
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Singing professor
Given the bout of war nostalgia there is an understandable tendency to look back on a period of apparent social solidarity, self-sacrifice and other desirable communal values. But whether regard for...
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TUCing you in
TUC general secretary John Monks has high hopes for the movement's own television show, TUTV. "The TUC has bought space at 5.45am to show programmes designed to appeal to trade union activists," he...
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The glum zone
Dundee University's new departmental handbook reminds us that in 1989, the court decided "to adopt a policy banning smiling in all parts of the university . . . except in areas specifically...
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Quip per quo
No need for the Association of University Teachers to fork out on an expensive after-dinner speaker. General secretary David Triesman is always first to his feet. At last week's AUT conference he...
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Students to get learning vouchers
A voucher funding system for post-16 education and training to create a more student-led market is proposed in a Government-backed consultation paper published this week, writes Tony Tysome. But the...
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Medics on community call
A shift in the teaching of medical students out of universities and into the community was launched this week as the Government proposed changes to its allocation of funds for medical teaching. From...
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Research overheads row hits new peak
Disagreement over who should pay the overheads for charity-funded medical research increased this week as the issue became linked to charities' demands that they should benefit financially from the...
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Envoy soothes union fears
A TUC special envoy is trying to make peace between the two main lecturers' unions after fears of membership wars at universities merging with colleges. Union relations officer Brian Ward was called...
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Banking on success
(Photograph) - Banking on success: Geoff Evans, head of the school of applied sciences at South Bank University, expected to spend this week dealing with the Higher Education Quality Council's...