Utterly scrabbled
Production quality being one of those things that worries academic and other authors, Canadian publishers DPLU, whose stand at this week's World History Congress at Montreal informed participants...
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Scots FE spreads net
The number of full-time higher education students in Scottish further education colleges has more than doubled in under five years, according to the Scottish Office . Numbers rose from 9,216 in 1989/...
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Warning on A-level failures
The Government has warned universities against setting up new foundation courses and filling them with students who have failed their A levels. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and...
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Lib-Dem debate on who pays fees
Students would have to pay some of their course fees under an Pounds 8 billion higher education expansion plan the Liberal Democrat are considering. The party's higher education working group has...
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Blooming hot: Graham Benskin, senior botanic gardener at Leicester University's Harold Martin botanic garden
(Photograph) - Blooming hot: Graham Benskin, senior botanic gardener at Leicester University's 16-acre Harold Martin botanic garden, admires pawpaws that have grown to giant proportions in this...
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Mystery of star pupil's rejection
A senior lecturer at Staffordshire University has called medical schools' selection processes into question after his son's four As at A level brought him 20 rejections. Mohammed Al-Mousawi is...
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Chile first for satellite
Chile's first satellite, built and designed by engineers at Surrey University, was launched into space from a site in Russia earlier this week. Ed Milton, general manager of the University's Surrey...
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Cash to keep north's brains
Talented graduates are the target of a Pounds 500,000 initiative to find attractive career opportunities for them in County Durham and stop the brain drain from the north. Research commissioned by...
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Logical switch
Teenagers should study logic and rhetoric as part of a new baccalaureate-style diploma, the Association of University and College Lecturers has proposed. The union says A levels should be replaced...
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Mental block
The Royal College of Psychiatrists says that very little has improved in the conditions for mental health patients in London over the past year. Paul Lelliott, director of the Royal College of...
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Greenwich awards
The University of Greenwich has earmarked Pounds 50,000 to introduce Pounds 250 tax-free scholarships for all its undergraduate courses this year. The "Millennium" awards will be presented to...
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Cash point
Glasgow Caledonian University this week opened a Pounds 4 million financial services centre, funded by a partnership with Britannia Life, which provided a Pounds 2 million loan.
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Top Welsh post
Keith Robbins, vice chancellor of Lampeter, will become senior vice chancellor of the University of Wales today. He will serve for three years and chair many of the federal university's committees,...
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A stab in the dark
Strathclyde University is aiming for the cutting edge of research with an appeal for industrial partners to develop ways of testing stab-proof vests. The department of mechanical engineering, which...
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Jungians welcomed into fold
The famous rift between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung is healing - and it is happening in Colchester, according to one of the joint holders of the country's first chair in Jungian analysis. The...