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The National Commission on Education report, Learning to Succeed - After 16, reported in this week's Further Education Synthesis, page iv, is available in full via The THES Internet Service. It can...
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Making friends
Ian Lang, Secretary of State for Scotland, this week launched an initiative aimed at building stronger links between industry, colleges and schools and encouraging young people into manufacturing...
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GPs lured to research
General practitioners should be enticed into academic research by means of "distinction awards" given to those who reach a senior level, according to the higher education funding councils and the...
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Stronger Link
An Pounds 8 million research programme on biological catalysts, less red tape in processing bids for funds and a board to oversee schemes are among the key features unveiled this week by the...
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Political scientists getting younger
Political scientists are getting younger and more women are entering the profession, but short-term contracts are continuing to gain ground. These trends emerge clearly from the latest survey of the...
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Dolly doldrums
(Photograph) - Dolly doldrums: a mysterious disease afflicting collectors' valuable dolls made in the 1940s and 1950s, which made them buckle, bloat and build up a brown sticky liquid, has been cured...
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Buffer demand
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council or a similar buffer body should still continue under a Scottish parliament, according to the Association of University Teachers Scotland. Its submission...
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Schools join in
Tim Boswell, further and higher education minister, said this week that schools as well as universities and colleges will be able to bid for money under the European Union's new Socrates programme...
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Postgraduates lose state bursaries
Nine prestigious professional postgraduate courses have been deprived of their quota of state bursaries in a move which could signal the end of direct Government support of top-level vocational...
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Sacked loan chief going to court
Ronald Harrison, fired this week as chief executive of the Student Loans Company, has announced through his lawyers that he will fight the dismissal through the courts. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of...
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Light as air
(Photograph) - Light as air: a team from the University of Kent at Canterbury is restaging Blaise Pascal's original experiment demonstrating atmospheric pressure as part of the National Week of...
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Battle with CBI on intellectual rights
Universities should have complete initial control of intellectual property rights on collaborative research projects, says the Higher Education Funding Council for England. By taking this line it is...
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Quality: Scots against devolution
Scotland's higher education principals have called for an end to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's quality assessment system, and are seeking a single quality assurance body for the...
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Computer sciences come bottom of the quality class
Computer science departments have produced the lowest proportion of excellent ratings in any of the eight subjects so far assessed for teaching quality by the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Oxford votes on promotions system
A postal vote on Oxford University plans for a promotions system that would create hundreds of new professors and readerships has divided dons. The university is counting the vote today. The...