England funding blueprint
A funding system which aims to even out cash imbalances in English higher education was unveiled this week. More support for universities and colleges offering specialist provision, and those...
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Top-up fees probe at LSE
Last Friday was the deadline for English universities to file financial forecasts with the funding council. Not all met the deadline. With a cash crisis looming, THES reporters look at the sums and...
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French archives set for shake up
The French school of contemporary history is in danger of falling behind those of other countries if major disparities over researchers' access to national archives continue. The warning comes in a...
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Look for infertility evidence in the field
Gillian Bentley asks where is the evidence that environmental pollutants are causing human infertility? (THES, June 14). The comparisons she herself supplies constitute such evidence. If xeno-...
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Polar bores miss multimedia point
Last month a BBC2 series on Public Property featured the building of the learning resources centre at Thames Valley University's Slough campus. Designed by Sir Richard Rogers, the building is both a...
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Ward hails forum sweep
The Colleges Employers Forum has won a clean sweep in the election of the board of the new unified employers' association, it was revealed this week. CEF members or activists secured all 12 of the...
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Fab four
Glasgow, Dundee, Edinburgh and Stirling universities will share Pounds 128,000 extra funding following "excellent" ratings in the Scottish 糖心Vlog Funding Council's latest quality assessment...
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Called to account
Last Friday was the deadline for English universities to file financial forecasts with the funding council. Not all met the deadline. With a cash crisis looming, THES reporters look at the sums and...
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Sweet success
Alumnus to be proud of No: 56 is Alan Sugar, busy divesting himself of the somewhat depreciated stock of his eponymous company (A. M. S. TRADing) at the same time as enjoying unintended national hero...
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MEP raises cash alarm
The European Commission should investigate streamlining its funding to promote research into education and training, according to Euro MP Sue Waddington. Ms Waddington, former chair of Leicestershire...
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Animal rights and wrongs
I was disturbed by Roger Scruton's article "Talk on the wild side" (THES, June 28) which suggested humans are morally entitled to eat, hunt and generally abuse what he calls "the lower animals". He...
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Ill-starred treks
A spate of high-profile expedition disasters has unleashed a wave of rule-tightening across campuses and is endangering the future of a brave tradition. Aisling Irwin reports They were four blithe...
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A taste for Moore
(Photograph) - A taste for Moore: is accountability in public art in conflict with aesthetic standards? Psychologist Doug Sandle, reader in visual studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, will chair...
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Giant byte
Researchers at Cambridge University are to benefit from a Hitachi supercomputer that will be one of the most powerful computers in the United Kingdom. With a peak performance of 29 Gflops and memory...
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Interim plea to Dearing
Last Friday was the deadline for English universities to file financial forecasts with the funding council. Not all met the deadline. With a cash crisis looming, THES reporters look at the sums and...