Hot seat
Spotted recently outside the Houndsditch headquarters of London Guildhall University was a vehicle costing rather more than Ms Stewart's venerable Vauxhall - to wit a magnificently ostentatious...
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Lean machine
Lean production is obviously being followed by lean living for Heather Stewart of the Southampton Institute. On page three of the institute's newsletter Sinews, she is seen pocketing Pounds 120 (and...
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Italian job
Should the University of Poppleton's Dr Piercemuller lose his berth after the next research assessment and, forsaking the obvious refuge of the quality industry, choose instead to make his de facto...
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You talkin' to me?
A taxi driver writes. . . In the Woman's Own letters page, a taxi driver (name and address supplied) is unimpressed by claims of student poverty. "I see how they spend their grants. . . As soon as...
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Cheap jibe
The secretary-general of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, addressing the council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities in Aberdeen, highlighted the work being done to encourage women...
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Pressing question
The nation's journalists are clearly in a ferment over Edinburgh University's support for the city's international science festival, and the role it sees for itself in supporting the local and...
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Labour pains
Deep in the bowels of Walworth Road the details of an education framework for the next century are being hotly debated. Key to Labour thinking is a unified qualification system for all students aged...
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Meeting of minds off MPs' agenda
What important function is performed irregularly by David Blunkett, the shadow education secretary; hardly at all by Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman; and only on special...
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Lakeland to be wired for learning
(Photograph) - An electronic library spanning hundreds of miles could soon allow some of Britain's most cut-off communities to key into higher education, according to Labour MP Dale Campbell-Savours...
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Bar warns of market misery
The Bar Council began talks on opening up training for would-be barristers this week with a warning that a limit might be set on the market. Members of the council agreed last year to end the Bar...
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Ideas can 'work both ways' for dynamic Commonwealth
Higher education must now capitalise on the strengths of both developed and developing institutions, according to Chief Emeka Anyaoku, secretary general of the Commonwealth. Chief Anyaoku, speaking...
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Foresight calls for Millennium project
The education and employment departments should join forces with the research councils to launch a major initiative aimed at bringing the information technology revolution to bear on all schools,...
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Guildhall report
Last week's account of the Jones report on morale at London Guildhall University should have stated that Mr Jones was formerly assistant provost of the institution and had been a Department For...
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Bow wow
The Scottish centre for Japanese studies at Stirling University is launching an intensive course in language and cultural training for individuals and companies to coincide with the Department of...
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Green pounds
British Telecom is organising BT Environment Awards, with a "student impact" category which has ten prizes of Pounds 500. Students are encouraged to run projects against environmental damage, such as...