Eye-opening experience
(Photograph) - Visitors to the National Artificial Eye Centre, which this week opened its doors for the first time for National Science Week, might be forgiven for thinking someone or something was...
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Under-18s dilemma for Scottish Office
The Scottish Office is facing the unpalatable choice of treating young Scots less favourably than young English or underwriting an extra tranche of student support. One of the public funding...
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Surveys differ on student response to fees
ONLY 10 per cent of final-year students in top universities say paying tuition fees would have made it less likely for them to start university, according to High Fliers, an independent research...
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Principals' pay rises set a bad example
Scottish education minister Brian Wilson has condemned university principals' big pay rises as setting a bad example to other staff. In a letter to fellow minister George Foulkes, Mr Wilson said: "I...
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Staff pay offer 'in line with public sector policy'
Higher education unions and employers met this week to thrash out pay for next year, with lecturers warning they would refuse to accept a deal below 3.4 per cent. The eight pay negotiating groups...
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Soaring words
(Photograph) - Eighteen-year-old Hannah Platts, an English and business studies A-level student at Doncaster Sixth Form Centre, declaims in a six-hour non-stop sponsored poetry reading at Doncaster...
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Which subject area gives you the best chance of finding a job?
Specified first destination of undergraduate students by subject, 1995/96 Area of study % unemployed Medicine & Dentistry 0.2% Veterinary Science 1.1% Law 3.8% Subjects Allied to Medicine 3.8...
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Unison steward fired for union work
A college technician was made redundant after 20 years' service because he was active in the trade union, a tribunal decided last week. Lawrence Keen, a Unison steward at Halton College, is now...
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Bankers hear about power of green pound
Natural Environmental Research Council scientists spelled out the certainties, and the uncertainties, of climate change, to an audience of bankers this week. Richard Cooper, chairman of the...
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Lottery puts East Anglia in the swim
The University of East Anglia has won a Pounds 14.6 million grant from the National Lottery, double the next largest amount awarded in higher education, to fund its planned Pounds 17.6 million sports...
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Oxbridge college fee changeover
OXFORD university could face cuts of Pounds 14 million and Cambridge Pounds 9 million as a result of college fee changes announced this week. Oxford and Cambridge each get about Pounds 35 million of...
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Governor critic was censored
A row over freedom of speech has erupted at Middlesex University following the "censorship" of an article written by a university governor for the in-house newspaper, North Circular. Governor and...
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Quality on line
Universities and colleges will be expected to provide students, employers, and quality watchdogs with clearer descriptions of the content and aims of their courses, under a proposed quality assurance...
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Clean sweep
(Photograph) - Debbie Murphy vacuums the council chamber at Cardiff University, which will house the Welsh Assembly when it opens in May 1999. Eventually the assembly will have its own building. Vice...
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Bright ideas needed for R&D cash
The government wants to hear from universities, research organisations and innovative businesses as it considers how best to stimulate investment in research and development, writes Julia Hinde. In a...