Costing the earth
While higher education's in-ternationalist instincts meant there was a certain regret at Norway's decision last year to reject European Union membership, this may not have been shared at Newcastle...
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Thanks a bunch
Never let it be said that Sir William Stubbs, chief executive of the Further Education Funding Council, lacks compassion. An exasperated member of North Warwickshire College complained that fears...
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Hard fax
Colleges Employers Forum chief Roger Ward likes to be known as a grand talker. When the man who spent the eve of his wedding in constant negotiation with Natfhe officials decided to treat his patient...
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Digital diet
Scottish universities and colleges are being connected by a series of information superhighway links, or Metropolitan Area Networks, known rather ungrammatically as MANs. One of these is in Fife and...
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Late leaver
Never famed for its ability to react rapidly, the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Prinicpals appears to be getting slower as it expands. With staff member Sean Fielding off to a new job at Exeter...
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Rouge faces
Until a couple of years ago, the grandly titled Pol Roger Oxford v Cambridge Blind Wine Tasting Match used to take place at the Oxford and Cambridge Club. But no longer: according to a Pol Roger...
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Copy cuts
Agitation about plagiarism is getting through to students. As Shaun Breslin, acting director of Newcastle University's East Asia centre, finished a distinctly lively paper on the future of China at...
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Top quark find solves matter puzzle
Scientists in the United States believe they have virtually completed the jigsaw that describes the structure of matter with the discovery of a subatomic particle that has not existed since the...
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Oxford bags under the eyes
Oxford University students need lessons in how to revise and sit for finals, as well as more time off between exams to recover from the experience, say student union leaders. The gruelling high-...
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Countdown to 1997
(Photograph) - Countdown to 1997: Henry Tang Ying-Yen, member of the Hong Kong legislative council and adviser to the Chinese government, emphasises a point during his address to the THES-Newcastle...
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Rent-a-lecturer plan
College employers are backing the creation of a private agency that aims to run a national directory of up to 400,000 self-employed lecturers for hire. The service will enable further education...
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Short-term contracts here to stay
There is little prospect of reversing the dramatic rise in the numbers of contract researchers in universities over the past 15 years, according to the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research...
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Cambridge record
Cambridge University, which has three female-only colleges and mixed colleges, last year admitted a record 1,379 women undergraduates, who now constitute 44.5 per cent of the total. But despite...
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Bond scheme is hit by delay
The launch of a Pounds 100-million bond scheme backed by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals and the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England has been put back several months while...
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Green keepers
Nine out of ten new universities - but fewer than half of the country's further education colleges - have created "green teams" to co-ordinate environmental activity. A survey by lecturers' union...