Leicester conclave plots invasion of Mars
European scientists are meeting this week to start planning a space mission to Mars in 2003 in search of former life. Teams from Italy, France, Germany and Russia are meeting at Leicester University...
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Newnham rallies behind transsexual
Staff and students at Cambridge University's last all-women college, Newnham, are uniting behind fellow Rachel Padman, who was exposed as a transsexual by colleague Germaine Greer. Despite Dr Greer's...
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Oxford dons get postal vote over Said school
OXFORD University is to hold a postal vote of all 3,000 dons over plans for a new business school. The university's parliament, Congregation, voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Pounds 40 million...
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Dearing considers savings scheme
Students may be encouraged to "get the Abbey habit" under funding plans to be put forward by Sir Ron Dearing's inquiry. The Abbey National bank has taken part in consultation workshops held by Sir...
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Scots favour 3-year degree
The Scottish committee of the Dearing inquiry into higher education is set to recommend a shift away from the four-year honours degree in favour of Scotland's traditional three-year general degree....
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Shadow warms to role
A month ago Stephen Dorrell was cherishing hopes of the Conservative leadership. Today, after his own withdrawal in favour of Kenneth Clarke and then the party's choice of William Hague, he professes...
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Junior posts
Shadow warms to role Angela Browning has to cover the whole gamut of education issues as junior spokesman in the Commons, but could still be forgiven for finding her new incarnation pleasantly quiet...
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UK Ltd lags in research
Corporate research and development spending in the United Kingdom is continuing to fall further behind international competitors, according to a report published yesterday. The report's 1997 R and D...
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Sorting the wheat
Well over 100 options are expected to flop onto education ministers' desks with Sir Ron Dearing's report next month. Education ministers, on the other hand, are said reliably to have confined...
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How arth you?
A case of mistaken identity saved junior education minister Alan Howarth from an uncomfortable few minutes in the company of another new Labour member whose memory inconveniently stretches back to...
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Astral planing
The cessation of hostilities between Glasgow University AUT and vice chancellor Graeme Davies, given to strictures about "passengers" who do too little research, means that staff there can now smile...
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Learning to share
The Further Education Funding Council has had its nose put slighly out of joint with the news that the Association of Colleges is to host the launch of the Kennedy Report next week. Apparently Helena...
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It's better to travel
With the appointment last week of Anne Campbell as John Battle's parliamentary private secretary, speculation is mounting as to who will chair the House of Commons select committee on science and...
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Standing up to God
The Australian academic who took on a church elder in a costly court battle over a Turkish rock formation which the latter claimed contained Noah's Ark has been made an honorary fellow of the...
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Human resourcing
With more than 100 redundancies in the last academic year, a vote of no confidence in the vice chancellor and a deficit of nearly Pounds 1.5 million, staff at Luton University need cheering up. And...