A PFI marriage of convenience
Are strategic partnerships between the public and private sectors of benefit to higher education or not worth the risk, asks Fari Akhlaghi There appears to be a growing consensus among commentators...
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The new Greenwich village
John McWilliam and Paul Watson describe how PFI is helping to build student bedrooms to order. In seven months time around 650 students from the University of Greenwich will occupy new purpose-built...
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The quick modular fix
Rental income makes student housing an ideal candidate for PFI. Stephen Hoare looks at two case studies. The phenomenal rise in student numbers in higher education means Britain's universities are...
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To fit out or fit in
With space at a premium, Paul Roebuck, Peter Lyon and Frank Woods predict another university league table. It has yet to dawn on many universities and colleges of higher education that space (area to...
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Four-star chain reaction
Stephen Hoare on the United States's experience of contracting in and contracting out. Students of the University of Tampa in Florida have every reason to be contented. They eat first-class meals...
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Clean sweep, new broom
Outsourcing has become a managers' buzz word. Michael Jackson reports. The University of Westminster takes facilities management seriously. With 1.3 million square foot of buildings spread over 23...
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A working campus holiday
Summer comes in January in Middlesex when it starts planning its intensive 12-week summer vacation building maintenance, alteration and extension programme. This marks the start of the "outsourcing...
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Nourishing the brains of Britain
Courted by contractors, a Pounds 160 million business remains steadfastly in house, says Richard Taylor. The chill of change is gusting through academia. In its wake, the twin spectres of swingeing...
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Heated debates on the mind
"Consciousness" used to be a taboo word among scientists: the problem was just too intractable. Now it is becoming a buzz word. "Tucson II", the second "Towards a Science of Consciousness" conference...
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Library group builds links on M25 map
The first single guide to the resources, locations, and access arrangements of 30 higher education libraries in the Greater London area has been launched on the World Wide Web. Jean Sykes, deputy...
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Snares in the charmed circle
The convergence of information technologies will fundamentally alter the role of universities but early experimenters are getting it wrong, Chris Hutchison argues. Education is entering a new era....
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Patronising Joe Public
The Government's handling of the BSE issue typifies its lack of faith in people's rationality, argues Brian Wynne. If ever risk assessment experts needed a reminder that what we take as objective...
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Prophet in the policy cold
Europhile Helen Wallace tells David Walker about her pioneering work, which has been ignored by a Europhobic British Government. Do you have a second home, I asked Helen Wallace, having in mind some...
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Beckett's Reading matter
The Nobel Laureate, who would have been 90 tomorrow, had a rapport with a Reading University professor that resulted in the largest archive of his work in Europe, Tony Tysome reports. If there was...
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Pay rises act 'as an addictive drug'
Huw Richards reports from the annual conference of the Royal Economic Society in Swansea on take-overs, pay and satisfaction. Research has challenged the economic theory of a direct relationship...