Team with designs on degree
Two-year foundation degrees will be the pinnacle of a more robust and expanded vocational education structure. The target is to create about half a million foundation degree places in something like...
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Mr Blunkett's proposals do not affect Scotland
Mr Blunkett's proposals do not affect Scotland, where the Committee of Scottish ÌÇÐÄVlog Principals is concerned by the prospect of confusion between foundation degrees and Scottish ordinary...
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Don's Diary
Chris Banister, former president of the AUT, now back as senior lecturer in town and country planning, University of Manchester. One of the advantages of being president of the Association of...
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Name again
David Blunkett's announcement of sweeping changes in higher education has raised major questions. What letters, for example, will graduates of the new degrees be able to put after their names? Will...
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Quick off the press
Consultation on the Department of Trade and Industry's report on Science and Innovation Strategy ended this week. But late entrants should not hold their breath: it seems the paper is mostly written...
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In the news
If the kind of global education predicted by David Blunkett this week ever takes off in the United Kingdom, it will owe much to the work of Robin Middlehurst. The former director of quality...
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On the move
Andrew Prescott, curator in the manuscripts department at the British Library, has been appointed on secondment as professor associate in the history department at Sheffield University. He will help...
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Cutting Edge
At Cardiff University, research within the student counselling service is producing new knowledge and practice to help students with eating disorders The impact of increasing levels of psychological...
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Internet guide to the galaxies navigates on neural networks
Tony Durham delves deep into astronomical literature on the web with the help of an ingenious method of library classification based on the brain Astronomy is about space. So perhaps it is quite...
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Current sources for research funding
BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY www.biochemsoc.org General Travel Fund The society has a fund from which grants are made available to assist eligible members in meeting the cost of attending scientific meetings...
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Glittering prizes
The Prince of Asturias, the Crown Prince of Spain, has been made a patron of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. The prince has launched a high-tech research fellowship for Spanish academics. The...
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Romanian waste spill
A cyanide-tainted waste spill from an Australian-owned gold mine in Romania threatens an Eastern European political crisis as well as an environmental catastrophe. Thousands of fish have been killed...
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Conference notes to spend
Thinking of attending an academic convention? That's fine, says Harvey Kaye, just bring your pillow Three days in a Chicago hotel for the 114th American Historical Association convention, surrounded...
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New York
Human Rights Watch has accused China of attempting to interfere with the free flow of information at home and abroad, including academic research in open sources. It says a strong resolution...
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Funding overhaul in Hungary
Three years after Hungarian politicians created an uproar in academia by sacking thousands and introducing performance-linked pay, plans are being drafted to change the way universities are funded....