Spot the Ball
The arrival last autumn of one of academic life's more prominent football enthusiasts, Howard Newby, as vice chancellor of Southampton University, seems to be having an effect on the local soccer...
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Sexuality Slob
Bad news for romantics in the latest newsletter from Rotterdam's Erasmus University. The International Academy of Sex Research has a new president, the university's professor of the pathophysiology...
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Firms feel graduate pinch
A fifth of top companies have reported a serious recruitment shortfall in spite of the rising number of graduates leaving higher education, according to a new survey by the Association of Graduate...
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Glasgow colleges spread street safety message
The stereotype of Glasgow as a city of marauding razor gangs may be outmoded, but its eight city centre universities and colleges have joined forces with the police to ensure that it is safer for...
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Public is prepared to pay for tuition
Plans for making students from well-off families contribute towards the cost of higher education need not necessarily be a vote loser, a MORI poll commissioned by The THES has shown. Fears of...
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Colleges dismiss grim closure forecasts
The Association for Colleges has dismissed gloomy predictions that one in five colleges could close within three years as a "cynical business exercise". Management consultants KPMG said last week...
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Appointments
BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME The 1994/95 Rome Scholars in Ancient, Medieval and Later Italian Studies are: Edward Bispham, Jesus College Oxford and Amanda Collins, St Hugh's College, Oxford. DE MONTFORT...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL Joan Bordas, head of the synchrotron radiation research division at Daresbury Laboratory, to the chair of experimental physics; David Drakakis-Smith, professor of development...
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Events
ERIC DOBSON EXHIBITION The University Gallery, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, is exhibiting Eric Dobson's paintings, drawings and collages from today to December 23 (Monday-Thursday...
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Grants
continued from last week UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Dr J. Littlechild, Pounds 150,844 from BBSRC (lipase enzyme structure/function relationships and their applications in biotransformation reactions - ROPA...
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Honorary Degree
UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE DLitt: Peter Townsend, emeritus professor of social policy at the University of Bristol. LLM: Maurice Sutherland, Labour leader of Cleveland County Council, 1973-77 and 1981-85...
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RISK RUNNING Psychologists at the University of Hull are looking for volunteers from within the region to help them discover what influences people to take risks. The team is particularly interested...
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Shephard raises standard stakes
The Secretary of State for Education told colleges this week that more young people needed to reach "higher levels of achievement". But on the same day, a survey revealed that severe financial...
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First annual report of the Chief Inspector of Further Education Funding Council
The first annual report from the Further Education Funding Council's chief inspector, which involved the inspection of more than 100 colleges, has concluded that the sector is "dynamic, responsive...
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Inspection squads to descend on NCVQ centres
A fully-fledged inspectorate for monitoring standards in workplace vocational qualifications is to be established next April by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications. The NCVQ is...