End game
(Photograph) - End game: For the second year running Leeds University's Rugby League XIII went further down the road to Wembley than any other student team. But dreams of playing in next May's...
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Grants
Cambridge University Development Office in the United States The William H. Gates Foundation has made a grant of $20 million for the design and construction of a new computer laboratory. University...
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Oxford to learn from Cambridge
A REPORT into the future of Oxford University is expected to suggest radical changes that would make it run more like Cambridge. Peter North's long-awaited paper is likely to recommend a more...
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Portrait of the artist as an academic
Are you a regular drinker, a smoker, a pet owner, and a loyal member of the Labour party? If so, you are probably an artist or a philosopher. Or do you dislike cigarettes, love your job, enjoy nights...
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Drugs expert under fire
CONTROVERSIAL drugs researcher Martin Plant, whose Pounds 120,000 grant has been suspended by the Scottish Office, narrowly avoided an Edinburgh University disciplinary hearing because his contract...
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Film collection goes to Warwick
A RETIRED German film critic has sold a collection of film memorabilia from pre-war Germany to the University of Warwick in a gesture of regret for second world war bombing raids on Coventry. Henning...
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Tribunal upholds Dundee sacking
A Dundee University lecturer who directed a student field trip to the wrong site and then casually said "What's in a name?" was not dismissed unfairly, an industrial tribunal has ruled. The tribunal...
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Look back
(Photograph) - Look back: an illustrated film programme from Veit Harlan's 1940 anti-Semitic melodrama Jud Su' (above) is part of a rare collection of German cinema memorabilia acquired by the...
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Ethnic staff rates targeted
LECTURERS, vice chancellors and funding council officials are hiring researchers to find out why universities employ so few people from ethnic minorities as academic staff. Research planned for this...
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Oxford philanthropist leads LSE fundraising
Henry Drucker, who helped raise more than Pounds 340 million for Oxford University, will lead a fundraising team for the London School of Economics. Dr Drucker, who founded the consultancy firm...
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Greenwich expands down the river
GREENWICH University is planning a new Pounds 90 million London campus that would combine technology and Oxbridge-style punting. The campus, which will be built using public and private money, will...
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Young creators to get government cash
The government is allocating Pounds 200 million to support inventors, artists and designers early in their careers. Funds for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts are being...
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UCoSDA certified by national training body
THE Universities and Colleges Staff Development Agency has won recognition as a National Training Organisation. The 糖心Vlog Training Organisation was one of 19 in the second round of NTOs...
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Leeds handed 'not approved' rating
Leeds University is the first old university to receive a "not approved" rating under the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England's new teaching quality assessment system. The poor rating came...
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Petition attacks TVU senior management
About 300 staff and students at Thames Valley University have signed a petition saying they lack confidence in vice chancellor Mike Fitzgerald and his management team and calling for action from the...