58-point checklist of good practice
It had to happen. Borchester, the nearest thing the neverending radio soap The Archers has to the sinful city, now has a university. And it is just the kind of university that fits the dramatic...
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Merger plan for lecturers and teachers to be halted
Moves that could lead to a merger between the Association of University Teachers and the University Lecturers' Association of the Educational Institute of Scotland are set to be stifled today by the...
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Singing coach
Watching the car parks has always been a handy way of tracking who's briefing who. So some interest should be attached to the sighting last week of a coach, billed as being on loan to outsize tenor...
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Change partners
There's nothing like the experiences of post-communist Europe to put British worries into perspective. Asked how the Economic and Social Research Council's new Whitehall Programme will fare should...
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Tied in
Education union leaders displayed a remarkable consensus at a higher education fringe meeting at this week's Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow. Panellists David Triesman of the Association of...
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DIY dinner
The Calvinist work ethic has nothing on the one at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. Professor Eddy Van Avermaet, welcoming delegates to a European adult education conference, praised...
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Monkey see
More fodder for the debate on falling academic standards: delegates at a meeting on the art and science of vision last week heard of an experiment on visual perception, published by Logothetis et Al...
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Tim runs out
At last the truth can be told of the final hours in office of the former higher education minister Tim Boswell. As the storm clouds cleared in the wake of John Major's leadership campaign victory, Mr...
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Time runs out
The University of Oxford is famous for its historians, but may soon acquire a short-lived reputation for its futurologists as well. The university's magnificent 1995/96 desk diary is crammed with all...
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Here for Das Bier
Sheffield University's newsletter is highlighting a German pub evening, which it explains is intended for anyone interested in the German language or culture, and who wants to exchange ideas, new...
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Pool cleaner
Alumni to be proud of no 9: Cameron Baxter, a final-year business studies student at Stirling University, jailed for 30 months last week at the High Court in Glasgow. Baxter, who also worked as a...
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Poor students rush for advice
Scottish Citizens Advice Bureaux have seen a marked increase in students with financial problems, according to a report this week. Poverty by Degrees says: "Bureaux throughout Scotland have reported...
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Non-lethal weapons top UN hit-list
Analysts in new weapons technology from Bradford University are expected today to urge the United Nations to issue a complete ban on the use of "inhumane" weapons, including lasers that blind...
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HE TV in the spotlight
Scotland's higher education institutions are being given the chance of securing their own television channel, putting them in the forefront of European educational developments. Scottish Television...
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Students press for reforms
More than 100 student union officers have formed a pressure group to lobby the National Union of Students for a "more realistic" policy on education funding. The group, New Solutions, hopes to pave...