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Durham A former instructor at North Carolina Central University, Durham, has been convicted of passing a student in exchange for a television set and video game system. Zoology lecturer Vonda Reed...
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Quark negative
Most software vendors approached by the Combined 糖心Vlog Software Team accept that academic discounts are a cheap way of buying mindshare among tomorrow's decision makers. But after months...
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Danger mouse?
The Health and Safety Executive is funding a two-year study by Loughborough and Surrey universities on possible health risks of computer devices such as touch screens, joysticks and the mouse.
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Keele University
Keele University has 17 not 70 staff earning more than Pounds 50,000 (THES, February 5) and the figure for D. Vaughan at the Cumbria College of Art and Design included the employer's pension...
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Eye witness
Spain has contested the status of Gibraltar for almost 300 years. Last week's rumble of gun-boat diplomacy and scenes of traffic queuing at Spanish customs are a further chapter in the saga of...
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War on red tape in city of angels
Bangkok Thailand's capital is blessed with an ancient title that is the longest place name in the world, and reputedly cursed with some of the longest traffic jams. But Thais believe no one can curse...
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Chernobyl's legacy stays
Belarus is tightening up on compulsory two-year work-placements for state university graduates. From now on graduates who fail to report for their work placements or quit in the two years will have...
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EU dashes hopes of Gulf academic exchanges
An academic co-operation project linking Arab and European universities is facing collapse after EU ministers refused to agree its E432,000 (Pounds 300,000) budget. Gerd Nonneman, senior lecturer in...
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SCT sued for Pounds 10M
British Gas Trading is bringing a Pounds 10 million lawsuit against SCT, a company that has more than 1,280 educational institutions in 26 countries as customers. BGT claims that SCT failed to...
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Funding council gets tough on franchising
A clampdown on franchise provision has been announced by the Further Education Funding Council. Funding Council cash for franchising will be cut by one third in 1999-2000, except where colleges are...
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No saving
Student-owned computers will not bring significant cost savings for institutions, according to a Joint Information Systems Committee management briefing paper. The reduced need for shared computer...
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Faster still
Next Wednesday sees the launch of a high-speed network linking 70 research institutions in the United States. The broadband optic fibre system, Abilene, will serve as a test bed for the next...
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TVU reels as applications dive
Staff at troubled Thames Valley University are being consulted on course closures and redundancies as new figures reveal applications down by nearly a fifth. Acting vice-chancellor Sir William Taylor...
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Postgraduate numbers rise
Four per cent more students gained postgraduate qualifications between 1996-97 and 1997-98, the 糖心Vlog Statistics Agency reported this month. Of 115,000 students, 18,900 did a postgraduate...
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Oxford teaching courses merge
Schools of education at Westminster College, Oxford, and Oxford Brookes University are to link up from next September with full institutional merger likely to follow. From September 2000, the...