Natural Selection
Dedicated microbiology students at Sunderland University are brewing 36 gallons a week of their own beer, Evolution Ale, which they are selling to a city pub through their own marketing company.
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Scots go-it-alone
The Association of University Teachers Scotland at its annual conference in Perth called for universities and the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council to be consulted in a Scottish Trades Union...
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Heart to heart
Screening the population for all risk factors for heart disease is not a cost-effective way of reducing disease, according to researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In a...
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Acas talks
Lecturers' union Natfhe will today debate joining talks at Acas aimed at solving the long-running further education contracts dispute. The move follows fresh proposals from Colleges Employers Forum...
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Weight watchers
Trade unions in the old universities launched a campaign this week to overturn a freeze on the 1993 London weighting allowance imposed by vice chancellors. The unions say that backdating the payments...
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Croydon coup
Croydon College is set formally to become a college of the University of Sussex with the signing of a partnership agreement next month. Sussex will validate Croyden's higher education degrees and...
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Campus boost to local wealth proven
The nine universities in Yorkshire and Humberside are among the region's biggest employers, creating 24,000 jobs and spending Pounds 417 million on wages, according to a new survey by locally-based...
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Schools await SuperJANET offer
Anyone who can see a profitable way of connecting rural schools to the information superhighway should tell the Government by July 7. On Monday Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education,...
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Colleges campaign
Pressure for a unified post-16 education funding system has emerged from a wide-ranging consultation on the future nature of higher education delivered at further education colleges. Fears of a new...
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Hull loses four top managers
Four senior administrators are to leave the University of Hull within the next few months, writes Claire Sanders. The resignations of Kevin O'Hara, finance director, Anthony McClaran, academic...
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Second best degree risk
Universities that have rushed to form partnerships or franchise agreements with other institutions are in danger of awarding "second best" degrees, says the Higher Education Quality Council. Roger...
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Final word
This week's Final Word comes from a pre-war high-flier with a mystical streak: "Only the Spirit, breathing upon the clay, can create Man." The winner of last week's competition, who correctly...
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Speaking Volumes: Moby-Dick
A. Robert Lee on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick . A summer vacation job clerking at the Army and Navy Store in 1963 might not seem the likeliest of contexts for a first close encounter with Moby-Dick....
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Farewell to freelancers
Graduate Education in Britain
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Britain's nationalised industry
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