Assessment shadow over research
The future of development research funding will depend on the outcome of the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise. Introduced to help new universities in building up their research provision when the...
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Sponsored FE chair will be first
The first commercially sponsored chair in the further education sector is soon to be announced at Bishop Burton College in East Yorkshire. Roy Brown, newly appointed research director at the college...
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Training framework audit ordered
The Government has commissioned an audit of the whole training framework in an effort to streamline the structure of vocational qualifications and to restore confidence in job-related courses. The...
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Ain't nobody like the body
When you gather round the piano this Christmas, simultaneously educate yourself in biochemistry with some ditties from the The Biochemists' Songbook. What better way of making use of that dead time...
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On speck
Darren Speck, now a student at the University of Warwick, was at Mid Warwickshire College in Leamington Spa when he won the BTEC engineering student of the year award for his mountain bike design (...
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Two into one
The Education Committee and the Employment Committee of the House of Commons are to be abolished from March, and replaced with a single committee on Education and Employment, the Government has...
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Cash converter
Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine this week announced a Pounds 10 million programme aimed at boosting links between the world of education and the information superhighway. He said the money...
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Guildhall slims to survive
London Guildhall University is to look for fresh savings of around Pounds 2 million in the next three years as it aims to secure its finances. "Targeted severances" are likely to be a significant...
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Internet News
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements, appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication. The service...
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Final word
This week's Final Word was written by an author who had read the whole of Herodotus in the original ancient Greek by the age of eight: "The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of...
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Speaking Volumes: The Acquisition of Territory in International Law
Malcolm Shaw on Robert Jennings's The Acquisition of Territory in International Law . I have an interest to declare here. The author of the book that I wish to write about bears the same name as the...
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A double on the rocks
Earth's Glacial Record - Glacial Environments
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A little nasty rashness
The Postmodern Turn - Understanding Classical Sociology - Sociological Theory
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Cracking cases
Interpreting Evidence - Science and the Detective
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Elements of success
Marie Curie