Better sight for poor eyes
Discovering the causes of vision impairment in Down's syndrome children is the aim of a Pounds 195,000 Medical Research Council-funded project under way at Cardiff University's department of...
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Unison solution to promotion blues
Many workers feel barred from promotion because of age, occupation, union membership and employers' attitudes, according to a Unison survey of participants on its Return to Learn programme. The union...
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Minorities in US still lag behind
The 1954 Brown ruling outlawed discrimination in education in the United States but Lucy Hodges reports that minorities are finding there are still limits to 'equality' in the Land of the Free. Black...
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Keating praises 'success' of education system
Australia's unique Higher Education Contribution Scheme has been one of the great participatory and democratic reforms of the federal Labor government, according to Prime Minister Paul Keating,...
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Search for clues in Caribbean lifestyle
A study of Caribbean family structure, prompted by the 1991 census revelation that 51 per cent of African-Carribean mothers are single parents, is under way at the Cheltenham and Gloucester College...
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Chemists dispense advice with pills
Chemists in south-east London are inviting patients to bring in their medicines for a health check as part of a King's College London research project. Seventeen dispensing chemists have joined the...
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Third of employers have school, college link
A third of all employers are involved in formal links with schools and colleges according to a survey from the Institute for Employment Studies. Four-fifths of these employers have links with...
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Ministry merger gets cool welcome
The heads of Scotland's higher education institutions have given a guarded welcome to the proposed merger of the Scottish Office education and industry departments. The Committee of Scottish Higher...
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An improved shelf life
(Photograph) - Senate House, location of the Ministry of Information in the film version of 1984, seems to shout bureaucracy. But Emma Robinson, head of the University of London Library which is...
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Fellows get cash to collaborate
John Laver, chairman of the British Academy's humanities research board, last autumn wrote an article in The THES deploring the "funding starvation" which militated against collaborative research in...
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Universities will cater for Renaissance Man
The university of tomorrow will not look unlike the great colleges of the Renaissance when there was a single community of international scholars linked by a common language, according to Sir Ron...
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Student money problems affect performance
Many students believe that financial problems are having an adverse effect on their academic performance, a survey of University of Central England undergraduates has shown. The survey, carried out...
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Threat to college sub degrees
College principals have reacted with disbelief to recent pronouncements from vice chancellors concerning degree and sub degree provision in the further education sector. Commenting on the Higher...
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Watchmaking industry
(Photograph) - Time warp: the clock is turning back in the watchmaking industry which is trying to cope with a resurgence in demand for traditional watches despite the advances made by quartz...
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Akker joins staff walk-out
Natfhe general secretary John Akker joined a walk-out of staff after the futher education sector conference decided to hold a national ballot on striking over pay. Staff complained that an activist...