Royal professors
The Royal Society plans to appoint four research professors in science, engineering and technology. The professorships will allow scientists to carry out research without the burdens of...
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Masters' pump
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is to fund 38 short-course modules at masters level, which universities can offer to industrial engineers and technologists. The funding, worth...
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Pounds 500 million bonus
Greater Manchester's universities contribute more than Pounds 500 million per year to the local economy and account for 17,300 jobs in the north-west, says a survey conducted by academics at the...
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Indian chair
Hull University is to create a chair in Indian politics, believed to be the first in Europe. It will be named after C. R. Parekh, the father of chair donor C. C. Shroff and Bhikhu Parekh, professor...
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Quality control
Nearly 5,000 schools and sixth-form colleges, 475 further education colleges and more than 1,000 public libraries in England and Northern Ireland have received reports from the Higher Education...
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Universities neglect vocational skills
Universities are too ill-informed about the new wave of vocational qualifications to take advantage of the benefits they offer, a report by the Higher Education Quality Council will reveal next week...
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Cautious welcome for 16-hour study rule
The decision to cut the number of hours an unemployed student can study from 21 to 16 has been given a cautious welcome by the Further Education Funding Council. It said that 16 guided learning hours...
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Students' day of triumph
France's student unions claimed victory this week after the government shelved university reforms in the face of strikes and demonstrations. But they went ahead with a march yesterday to press for...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a Viennese who worked for the BBC during the Second World War: "Artists, we trust, will always be born. But whether there will also be art depends to no small extent...
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Speaking Volumes: Homicide
Anne Campbell on Martin Daly and Margo Wilson's Homicide . I confess. I was, for a time, awe-struck by verbal sophistry. It began when a reviewer described one of my books as "refreshingly free from...
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A record of honourable defeat
No Man's Land
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Echoes of muffled tunes
Rediscovering the Muses:
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From the margins not the gutter
Cultural Politics - Queer Reading
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Guides for the pure
The Woman Reader, 1837-1914 - Victorian Heroines:
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Holy organisers
Vedanta for the West: