Freudian content
How wide-ranging are new higher education minister Eric Forth's ambitions for his new brief? The departmental brief detailing his responsibilities included "content and quality" of higher education....
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Professor young
Liverpool University is harbouring a prodigy. A recent copy of their Precinct newsletter includes a heartfelt plea from "An eight-year-old professor's daughter, tall, blonde and beautiful . . ....
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Grammar rules
Alumni to be proud of numbers two and three: Corpus Christi College, Oxford boasted as undergraduates, at one and the same time, Roger Waterhouse, now vice chancellor of Derby University and Richard...
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Hot stuff
Languid, phlegmatic and even inert are among adjectives that might be used to describe the staff of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals but never, until now, overheated. However, is...
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Peter principle
Patrick Dowling, vice chancellor of Surrey University and former head of civil engineering at Imperial College, was one of the speakers at a conference in honour of Peter Richards, who retires...
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Me, me and Me
Opera singer Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who set the Desert Island Discs all-comers record for self-referentiality by choosing eight records of her own performances, has an intellectual soul-mate in...
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Stay-on rates are far lower in north
Staying-on rates among 16 to 18-year-olds reveal a sharp north-south divide. Department for Education figures for 1993/94, released last week, show that all but three of 34 local authorities with...
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Parents' belief in A levels misplaced
Industry is suffering because of the serious mismatch in the attitudes of employers and parents towards education and training, a new survey shows. Most employers decried academic qualifications as...
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Welsh funding
The Welsh Office has made Pounds 1,1,162 available to the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales for Access funds in 1995/96, an increase of 2.4 per cent on the previous year. Access allocations...
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Lay-offs spark Jewel and Esk strike vote
Ballot papers on industrial action are today going to staff at Jewel and Esk Valley College following the compulsory redundancy of three academics. The further education college says it has suffered...
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Bar to query race gap in pass rates
An investigation has been launched into why Bar School students from ethnic minority groups continue to be out-performed by their white peers. The Council of Legal Education has commissioned Birkbeck...
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Participation down. . .
The percentage of 16-year-olds opting to remain in full-time education has fallen for the first time in a decade, according to unpublished research from the Institute of Education. The average annual...
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New crisis post-16
Work, full-time study or a training course? As young people juggle their options this week, new research warns universities and colleges of a looming "crisis" with post-16-year-olds beginning to turn...
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Green team
Denton Hall, the international law firm, is sponsoring a new environmental and law management group at Imperial College, London. The aim of the group is to help lawyers better their understanding of...
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Reith lecturer
Next year's Reith Lectures will be delivered by Jean Aitchison, Rupert Murdoch professor of language and communication at Oxford University, with a series of five lectures entitled The Language Game...