We learnt it on the grapevine
Wine degrees are booming, particularly in Australia. But what will happen if the market becomes saturated? Julia Hinde reports Mount Charlie and Charles Sturt might not be such familiar names as...
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GM Vines - turning less water into wine
When it comes to wine production, Australia is a small player in a vast global lake. But the bit player, with just 3 per cent of world wine production - one-seventh that of France or Italy - plans to...
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Scientists make better vignerons
A Melbourne University professor has found the perfect antidote to academic stress. When not running a hypertension unit at a city hospital or lecturing university students, Melbourne's physiology...
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Uniting the branches of knowledge
Steven Pinker predicts a blurring between science and humanities in the next century I predict the major development in the study of mind in the next decades will be an increasing "consilience", as E...
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Channel 4's Deaf Century series reaches the 1940s and 1950s. Interviewees include John Harmsworth, the first deaf...
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Higher National Diploma
Further education colleges offering at least one full-time Higher National Diploma are being invited to join the UCAS. The decision to admit these colleges was made at the Universities and Colleges...
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Learning and Skills Council to cut red tape
Education and employment secretary David Blunkett told the Labour Party conference this week that the Learning and Skills Council replacing the Further Education Funding Council and the training and...
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Populist Labour swells HE ranks
The government has sounded the "death knell" for elitism in higher education with plans to expand participation, partly through a new two-year associate degree. Ministers and the higher education...
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Scots change rules to beat the Sassenachs
Scottish universities have beaten their English counterparts into fifth place in a league table redrawn by Scottish researchers in the wake of perceived injustice. The Scots believe that league...
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Agony aunt
Q) My new students seem to write down every word that I say during lectures. Should I discourage this as I cannot believe it is productive for them? Liz Beatty Director of the centre for higher...
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Agony aunt
Q) My new students seem to write down every word that I say during lectures. Should I discourage this as I cannot believe it is productive for them? Sally Brown Director of membership services...
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Fees will lead to quality teaching, says Smithers
Universities should be allowed to charge realistic tuition fees to provide a high-quality education that is responsive to the demands of students. So argues Alan Smithers, professor of education and...
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British Library chief to leave in May 2000
Brian Lang, chief executive of the British Library this week announced his departure from the library in May 2000. Dr Lang, who took up his post in 1991, said it was always his intention to leave...
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Cambridge landlords push up the rent
Cambridge University is set to become the most expensive university outside London with planned rent rises of up to 47 per cent within five years, the university's students union claims. A recent...
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Boathouse fire hits Oxford rowers hard
Oxford University rowing is severely affected by the fire which destroyed University College boathouse earlier this week. The blaze destroyed the listed boathouse on the Thames and 40 boats belonging...