Applied patterns
Applications for higher education are up 1.5 per cent over this time last year, although this increase is accounted for mainly by the growth in overseas students from outside the European Union,...
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Fashion's avengers
(Photograph) - Fashion's avengers: Students from the consumer services management degree course at Leeds Metropolitan University model clothes designed by Clare McTurk (second from right) in the...
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Duplication narrows choice for vocational students, say Lib Dems
Thousands of students are facing a limited choice of vocational A levels because most colleges and sixth forms offer the same range of courses, according to a Liberal Democrat survey of approved...
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Pick'n' mix as examiners merge
A proposed merger of two examination boards is set to close the gulf between academic and vocational qualifications. The University of London Examinations and Assessment Council and the Business and...
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Students split over finance
The split among student unions on reform of student financial support widened this week as a group of "moderate" unions spoke of setting up their own consortium to push for reform. Alison Griffin,...
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Focus on the future
(Photograph) - Focus on the future: Christina Townsend, chief executive of the Business and Technology Education Council looks approvingly at the document proposing a merger with the University of...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a sharp-eyed lawyer: "With increasing distance our knowledge fades and fades rapidly. Eventually we reach the dim boundary, the utmost limits of our telescope. There...
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Speaking Volumes: The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Graham Farmelo on Paul Dirac's The Principles of Quantum Mechanics . I shall always be indebted to Jeremy Thorpe's Liberal Party. As a teenager, it enabled me to earn my spending money and the job...
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Honours
ANGLIA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY. On May 6, the following honorary degree was conferred: LL.D.: Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Bin Zain, deputy president of the Muslim Welfare Organisation (Perkim) and chairman of...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER. Research contracts: Professor Gerald Cain, Pounds 70,000 from Dialog Semiconductor (consultancy). Research councils: Professor Peter Morse and Dennis Carroll, Pounds 128,...
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Events
THE LONDON INSTITUTE. The London Institute Gallery is exhibiting the work of final year fine art students from three of the London Institute Colleges (Camberwell College of Arts, Chelsea College of...
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Chairs
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART. Nigel Coates has been appointed professor of architectural design. Noticeboard is compiled by Lynne Williams. For further information see also NetGazette on gopher.timeshigher....
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Appointments
LEICESTER UNIVERSITY. Michael Atiyah, president of the Royal Society, has been appointed chancellor. UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE. Janice Webster, senior lecturer in computer graphics, has been appointed...
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A dose of a rational health service
Medicine, Rationality and Experience
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A female Ulysses
No Gifts from Chance