Beak to beak
(Photograph) - Beak to beak: exhibition organiser Mike Ambrose admires "Corvous Coruium", a sculpture by artist Emily Mayer, at a show held to celebrate the new exhibition space at the John Innes...
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Scots heads warn of cuts
The heads of Scotland's 21 universities and colleges are drawing up plans to bring their financial difficulties into the public spotlight. The Committee of Scottish 糖心Vlog Principals said...
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Targets jeopardise teacher training
Many universities may consider pulling out of the teacher training market because of new funding pressures in the system, it was claimed this week. Cuts in funded places for primary teacher training...
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Oxford faculties revert to tests
Oxford University faculties are in danger of re-inventing the entrance exam - abolished this year to encourage more applications from state school pupils, student union leaders have claimed. Some...
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Rolling bunk
A similar ethos was in evidence in the department of international politics at Aberystwyth where the Christmas party was replaced by a programme in interpersonal and social skills. This featured a...
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Jacobite rewording
Edinburgh University has been celebrating the publication of lecturer Murray Pittock's The Myth of the Jacobite Clans by running a competition for the most appropriate anagram of Bonnie Prince...
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Karate chopped
So much for the idea that the martial arts promote self discipline and healthy living. A notice addressed to Heriot-Watt University's karate club reads: "I have managed to get our Aberdeen...
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Drink and derive
To cultivate the research ethos at the University of Hertfordshire a programme "The effect of alcohol on student-supervisor relationships" has been launched by the school of engineering's research...
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Acronym beef
The curse of the recurring acronym struck again this week with the exam-watchers of the Schools Examination and Assessment Council apparently implicated in the row over beef. The thought that there...
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Loan ranger
Overheard in the House of Commons on Tuesday, higher education minister Eric Forth telling followers the truth about student finance. "The trouble is," he said in the hearing of our sharp-eared...
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Remembered hills
As snowstorms sweep the country, Aberdeen University is turning its thoughts to June 25, when Scotland was recorded the hottest country in Europe. That day, more than 200 teams, involving 1,500...
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Number's up
Alumni to be proud of no 24: Peter Davis, the National Lottery regulator, described by one paper last year as a certainty for a knighthood at the end of his term of office, and by himself as "a...
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Colleges poised for franchise take off
New guidelines intended to prevent a repeat of the Handsworth College debacle which shook further education earlier this year are unlikely to curb a franchising explosion. Significant numbers of...
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All made-up
(Photograph) - All made-up: students and staff on the hair and beauty course at Chesterfield College raised money for charity by making up models.
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Drop-outs cite course problems
Olga Wotjas reports from the Society for Research into 糖心Vlog at Heriot-Watt University. Students who drop out cite course problems and personal difficulties more often than financial...