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...
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Strike over
Striking lecturers at Southwark College suspended their action last Friday, after 14 days on the picket line, when a more flexible approach to finding up to 35 redundancies was agreed with management...
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Take your partners
The university-industry postgraduate partnership training scheme is to be expanded by about 50 places, the Department of Trade and Industry announced this week. The scheme, launched in 1992, features...
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Abertay lecturers switch unions
Members of the Manufacturing, Science and Finance union at the University of Abertay Dundee have joined the Association of University Teachers after three months of debate. The AUT has now set up a...
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Bungle of County Hall sale
The Government's embarrassment over the sale of County Hall to a Japanese property group which may now not develop it was inflicted by their acceptance of narrow commercial criteria for the sale, a...
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Lecturers for hire move in on universities
The agency preparing a national database of self-employed college lecturers for hire is planning to move into higher education. Education Lecturing Services aims to register up to 400,000 lecturers...
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Pension funds change horses
Three Hong Kong universities are racing to avert a cash crisis involving their multi-billion dollar retirement funds after the government introduced new regulations on pension plans. The rules have...
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Chemistry PhDs fail the acid test
Doctorates in chemistry are of low quality, more students should be told earlier that they are not up to the mark, and the rest should be more rigorously supervised, according to the Royal Society of...
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Pay claim launch
Trade union Unison is to launch a claim for an across-the-board rise of Pounds 20 a week for all its 40,000 members in higher education. It has contrasted the six-figure sums paid to vice chancellors...
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V-cs confront Shephard on quality
Vice chancellors are so unhappy with the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council's proposals for a new quality assurance system that they have written to the council and to the Secretary of State for...
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Scottish rugby star Craig Joiner
(Photograph) - Bar prop: Scottish rugby star Craig Joiner, a second-year chemical engineering student at Heriot-Watt University, takes part in a blind beer-tasting session as part of an Edinburgh...
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Computer science defended
On top of Darrel Ince's proposal (MM, March 10) to disband computer science departments came news of the poor showing by those departments in HEFCE quality assessments. Readers leapt to the subject's...