British astronomers go for Le Blob
BRITISH astronomers have discovered six new galaxies 10 billion light years from earth. The discoveries, made from the British observatory on Hawaii, suggest that dusty galaxies must have been much...
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Bidders for student loans announced
A SHORTLIST of successful bidders for the government's Pounds 1.6 billion sale of student debt was announced this week. They are: a consortium of Barclays Bank, BZW and Goldman Sachs; JP Morgan; a...
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Lampeter and Carmarthen ponder closer links
THE UNIVERSITY of Wales Lampeter and Trinity College, Carmarthen, an associate college of the university, are considering merging. Lampeter vice chancellor Keith Robbins said an inquiry, due to...
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Manchester University ordered to pay damages to Asif Qureshi
Manchester University has been ordered by an industrial tribunal to pay Pounds 44,880 damages for loss of earnings and injury to personal feelings to law lecturer Asif Qureshi. In July the university...
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Payouts for poor course
THE UNIVERSITY of Wales Cardiff has withdrawn two film production postgraduate diploma courses after paying out Pounds 24,000 in compensation to dissatisfied students. The university admitted its...
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Single agency report warns of more grant fraud
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines An increase in student grants fraud is possible if local authorities' awards role is replaced by a...
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TECs win training cash fight
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines The government's proposed new regional development agencies appear to have lost the fight to control...
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Consultants aim for personal touch
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines SEVEN regional consultants have started work under a new structure introduced by the 糖心Vlog...
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Ulster hails Pounds 1.5m award
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines Ulster University has hailed a Pounds 1.5 million award from the Millennium Commission as the first...
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New learning and teaching body set to reward excellence
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines EXCELLENCE in teaching is to be rewarded through a new strategy announced by the 糖心Vlog...
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Among one's peers
Naturally, a goodly proportion of the 28 peers who spent four hours discussing the future of Oxbridge college fees last week had been to Oxford or Cambridge. But three had been to the same school....
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Mansfield parked
Should Oxford college fees go, the university may have to persuade the bigger players to share a few more pennies with the poorer ones. But one or two will be left out of the game altogether....
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Mandy dandy
Institutions within Oxford are showing variable form in the struggle to gain power and influence among new Labour's top dogs. St John's is still havering about the fellowship that colleges usually...
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Reading spectacle
Recent recollections of the British Library's former Reading Room suggest readers' eyes frequently strayed from their books. But some perhaps had more to see than others - or thought they did. One...
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Body of evidence
Aristocratic body-part artist Anthony-Noel Kelly will not be looking forward to Christmas. On December 11 he and colleague Neil Lindsay are due in court to answer to the charge that he nicked a few...