Grants
THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL. Charities. Drs K. P. Walsh and N. J. Shaw, Pounds 54,569 from British Heart Foundation (R. F. Martin junior research fellowship); Professor B. A. Wood, Pounds 65,066 from...
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Humphrey Lyttelton
(Photograph) - Veteran jazz musician Humphrey Lyttelton plays Song for Ruby at St Albans Cathedral following his acceptance of an honorary degree from the University of Hertfordshire.
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Loan chief is named
Colin Ward, assistant managing director of the Student Loans Company, is to become chief executive for three years from January 1. Mr Ward joined the company in 1990, but Sir Eric Ash, acting chief...
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Bolton strike spills over into new year
The lecturers' strike at Bolton College, already a month old, is set to run into the new year. The college management set a final deadline of Friday December 15 for strikers to agree to their new...
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Christmas spirit
(Photograph) - Christmas spirit: Drama students on the BA course at Bretton Hall University College, Wakefield, performing a scene based on Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management at a "Festive...
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Data interpreted
The Government has produced a handbook to help further education colleges meet the needs of business and the labour market. It will help them interpret local employment data.
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Tit-for-tat bank deal claimed
The Government has been accused of bribing private sector lenders to back its twin-track student loans scheme. Six financial institutions which are bidding for a lucrative contract to take over the...
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Rectors as peace-brokers
The rectors of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, of the Jesuits' Gregorian University in Rome and the vice president of Cairo's Al-Azhar University met in Rome as Christmas approached to promote...
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Creatures of habit
(Photograph) - Creatures of habit: "I can have a drink and go to parties. But we are under vows." So says Simon Uttley, one of four Jesuit undergraduates at Campion Hall, Oxford University. Exposed...
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Take the wrap for presents imperfect
The perfect giver of Christmas presents rarely gives money, always wraps gifts and draws attention to the "ritual sacrifice" of shopping they endured in order to find them, say psychologists. The...
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Naval contemplation
Greenwich University's bid to take over the 300-year-old Royal Naval College in Greenwich will be examined by an advisory panel announced this week by Defence Secretary Michael Portillo. A shortlist...
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Horses for resources
Bidders for the Natural Resources Institute have been whittled down to three: Cranfield University; a consortium of Edinburgh and Greenwich universities, Imperial College and Wye College, both part...
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Overtime fears
Forty-one per cent of men and 20 per cent of women work overtime in Britain, according to the world's largest ever study of overtime. Bob Hart and David Bell of Stirling University have found that...
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Postgrad says sorry
A former Aberdeen University postgraduate has had his sentence deferred for a year after promising to end a defamatory campaign against the university. Last month the Court of Sessions in Edinburgh...
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Employers reveal no interest in NVQs
Employers are rejecting national vocational qualifications, with over half saying they are "not interested" in them, according to a survey by the Sussex University-based Institute of Employment...