Redundancies loom
A fifth of English higher education universities and colleges expect to make staff redundant or encourage early retirement in the next four years, according to funding council returns. Their...
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Labour blasts review for ignoring sleaze
The Government's review of higher education came under Labour Party fire this week for failing to tackle such key issues as management and accountability. The Department for Education has launched...
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Appointments
BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME The 1994/95 Rome Scholars in Ancient, Medieval and Later Italian Studies are: Edward Bispham, Jesus College Oxford and Amanda Collins, St Hugh's College, Oxford. DE MONTFORT...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL Joan Bordas, head of the synchrotron radiation research division at Daresbury Laboratory, to the chair of experimental physics; David Drakakis-Smith, professor of development...
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Events
ERIC DOBSON EXHIBITION The University Gallery, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, is exhibiting Eric Dobson's paintings, drawings and collages from today to December 23 (Monday-Thursday...
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Grants
continued from last week UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Dr J. Littlechild, Pounds 150,844 from BBSRC (lipase enzyme structure/function relationships and their applications in biotransformation reactions - ROPA...
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Honorary Degree
UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE DLitt: Peter Townsend, emeritus professor of social policy at the University of Bristol. LLM: Maurice Sutherland, Labour leader of Cleveland County Council, 1973-77 and 1981-85...
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Search
RISK RUNNING Psychologists at the University of Hull are looking for volunteers from within the region to help them discover what influences people to take risks. The team is particularly interested...
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Massive job losses for FE
College managers are planning to cut thousands of senior academic jobs next year in their struggle to tackle growing financial deficits. The massive wave of redundancies is a matter of simple...
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Inquiry damns Derby
A damning catalogue of errors and mismanagement at Derby Wilmorton College is released today after a Further Education Funding Council enquiry into the governance of the college. The report calls for...
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Mid-term victors call for student funding cuts
The Republican victors in the United States mid-term election want savings that could lop billions of dollars off student loans and grants. Last week the higher education lobby was studying every...
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Bodmer to Salford
Sir Walter Bodmer is to be the next chancellor of Salford University. Sir Walter is director-general of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. He was professor of genetics at Oxford University between...
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Hallucinate: you know it's good for you
Out-of-body experiences, where subjects feel they are seeing their bodies from the outside, merit research because of the insight they could give into perception in general, according to the author...
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FE teachers to get training
Ministers have chosen further education as the testing ground for new competency-based teaching qualifications. The Department of Employment and the Department for Education are paving the way for...
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Cornwall pushes to host high-tech university
Cornwall could be the site of a unique high-tech "network" university, according to Sir Geoffrey Holland, vice chancellor of Exeter University. A task force of educationists, local authority...