World View
(Photograph) - World View: A new exhibition The Earth and the Heavens opened earlier this month at the King's Library (within the British Museum, Great Russell Street London WC1) and runs until...
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Jump in, the water's lovely
Liverpool's long-term unemployed are being asked to take the plunge into a unique Training for Work course - by starting each session with a jacuzzi. Merseyside Training and Enterprise "positive...
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Middlesex sets up `court' for comment
Middlesex University has joined the growing number of former polytechnics to create a court as a forum for wider community involvement in the university. It will meet annually and be made up of MPs,...
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Silver book staff issued ultimatum
National negotiations on further education pay expected to take place today are set to hit a new low because of threats by the leader of the employer's side, Graham Baskerville, principal of...
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Apply again, funding council tells universities
English universities have been told to resubmit part of their applications for next year's cash allocations following a funding council inquiry. The resubmissions are for returns in the quality...
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Reform signalled by green paper
The Government is to publish a higher education green paper before the end of the year to tackle issues emerging from its review of the sector. The news was leaked by junior ministers shortly before...
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Sporting chance
(Photograph) - Sporting chance: Umer Rashid, a first-year student in computing at South Bank University and rising star with Middlesex County Cricket Club, is the sort of player that the initiatives...
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Bannister wins Lottery ticket
Links between higher education and top-class sport are to be strengthened following the National Heritage department's new sports policy. A committee headed by Roger Bannister, former master of...
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Dearing cuts through 'jungle'
A common family of National Certificates regulated by a single qualifications body has been proposed by Sir Ron Dearing in an interim report on his review of education and training for 16 to 19-year-...
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Thailand ready for British university
The licence application for a British university in Thailand is to be submitted this month following a three-month feasibility study which concluded that Thai economic and social conditions, demand...
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CVCP offers own quality ideas
The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has written to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment this week with its own proposals for a single agency to assure quality in...
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First class
(Photograph) - First class: Students at University College Stockton's first ever graduation ceremony parade through the town to collect their degrees.
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Hot tips for a tardy planet
Ragnar Lofstedt fears that action on global warming will only start when the economic consequences begin to bite 51吃瓜 warming is one of the most controversial environmental topics - largely because...
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Facts, for the concealment of
Universities, those institutions devoted to free enquiry, are often not so open when it comes to their own archives. John Davies reports. What secret files does your university keep? How much...
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Creating the citizen scientist
Public participation in science policy is relatively unknown in the UK. But, as Jon Turney discovers, the Dutch and the Danes have long been pioneers in this area, while Alan Irwin makes the case for...