Medics merger
The private bill to merge Queen Mary and Westfield College, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, and the Royal London Hospital College was this week passed by the House of Lords and is expected...
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Labour sparks FE row
A Labour Government would devolve further education funding and policy decisions to new regional councils, it emerged this week. Much of the power currently vested in the Further Education Funding...
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Bridge over campus causes trouble
A controversial road bridge, which has been criticised by English Heritage and the Royal Fine Art Commission, has troubled the waters at Brayford Pool, site of Humberside University's new Lincoln...
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The moral maze of genetic knowledge
The "right" to know about one's health has dominated discussions about the ethics of genetic screening, a conference will hear tomorrow. But the "right not to know" has received little attention,...
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Entente cordiale
The private sector is backing a new Anglo-French scholarship scheme to the tune of Pounds 2.5 million over five years. About 20 British and French companies, including British Airways and Pernod...
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Slick film
A project which uses the latest telecommunications technology to improve pollution control in the North Sea oil industry is the first winner of the Pounds 25,000 Enterprise Oil and Heriot-Watt...
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Technology transfer
Ian Dalton, director of Heriot-Watt University research park since 1971, has been appointed managing director of Edinburgh University's flagship technology transfer project, the Edinburgh Technopole...
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Internet News
A new batch of teaching quality ratings are added this week to The THES research and teaching quality tables (page29 and THESIS Databank). Also online is the Synthesis report on Universities and...
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Excellent bonanza for 'old' universities
Old universities dominate the "excellent" ratings in the latest round of teaching assessments published by the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England, writes Claire Sanders. In the seven...
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Flagging up a protest
Flagging up a protest: Romanian students on the streets of Bucharest this week as the government pondered a retreat from its hard line on introducing tuition fees and a charge for examination resits...
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Action on extremism
The National Union of Students is to send a dossier listing verbal and physical abuse that students have suffered at the hands of fascist groups, Islamic extremist groups and religious cults to...
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Fender's doorstop aims to ease the pain of RAE
Two hundred and forty-two pages of funding council documents thudded on to university doormats this week as the final guidance and criteria for the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise were issued....
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a double act who created a cultural icon: "My two dear friends came in the evening, and the last post brought a letter from Lupin in reply to mine. I read it aloud...
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Speaking Volumes: Mémoires d'une Jeune Fille Rangée
Jill Forbes on Simone de Beauvoir's Mémoires d'une Jeune Fille Rangée . I first came across Memoires d'une Jeune Fille Rangee in the Penguin translation published in 1963. I had just returned from a...
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A head start for humans
Origins of the Human Brain