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Alumni to be proud of no 9: Cameron Baxter, a final-year business studies student at Stirling University, jailed for 30 months last week at the High Court in Glasgow. Baxter, who also worked as a...
Alumni to be proud of no 9: Cameron Baxter, a final-year business studies student at Stirling University, jailed for 30 months last week at the High Court in Glasgow. Baxter, who also worked as a...
Scottish Citizens Advice Bureaux have seen a marked increase in students with financial problems, according to a report this week. Poverty by Degrees says: "Bureaux throughout Scotland have reported...
Analysts in new weapons technology from Bradford University are expected today to urge the United Nations to issue a complete ban on the use of "inhumane" weapons, including lasers that blind...
Scotland's higher education institutions are being given the chance of securing their own television channel, putting them in the forefront of European educational developments. Scottish Television...
More than 100 student union officers have formed a pressure group to lobby the National Union of Students for a "more realistic" policy on education funding. The group, New Solutions, hopes to pave...
David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, is no longer a member of staff of Queen's University, Belfast (The THES, September 15). He relinquished his post there after the 1992 general...
Science minister Ian Taylor this week launched a competition to reward industry-university collaboration in science, engineering and technology. The competition will award prizes worth a total of...
Lancaster University is to receive Pounds 2.3 million from the National Lottery to build the Ruskin Library. It will house the world's foremost collection of art, manuscripts, books and diaries...
More than Pounds 100,000 worth of prizes are on offer for talented designers in this year's student design awards run by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce....
A group of scientific ombudsmen should be set up to pronounce on issues of public concern, according to naturalist David Bellamy. Talking at the British Association for the Advancement of Science in...
Government departments are to be encouraged to appoint female scientists to public positions by a catalogue pointing them in the direction of suitable women. The Development Unit on Women in Science...
Higher and further education institutions are being targetted this week by a national campaign to improve child-care facilities for students and staff. The Association of University Teachers, Natfhe...
Sir Bob Reid, former chairman of British Rail, is to chair the key negotiations on the planned merger of the Association for Colleges and the Colleges Employers Forum. Also chairing some of the...
The National Trust has failed to save fast-disappearing landscapes or to boost rural economies sufficiently, the director of the centre for the rural economy at Newcastle University, is set to say...
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's determination to be the main quality watchdog for universities north of the border seems to have derailed plans for a UK-wide single quality agency, at...