Missing person
The person pictured in our story on the Audetel TV system was a member of staff of the Independent Television Commission, not Pat Rabbitt of the University of Manchester (THES, October ). The ITC...
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Top among equals
Tom Blundell, chief executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, has won this year's Opportunity 2000 award for "top level commitment" to equal opportunities in the public...
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This way out?
(Photograph) - This way out? The London School of Economics' decision-making process over whether to bid for the soon-to-be-vacant Bart's Hospital site will take an important step forward next week...
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Shephard rounds on CBI
Top business leaders were lambasted by Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, this week for failing to give a clear signal about what employers want from the higher...
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Further work for colleges
Further education colleges may be asked to provide new kinds of training courses under Labour's "New Deal" for the young unemployed. Out-of-work youngsters who opt to join full-time education to...
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Area Boy
(Photograph) - Area Boy: Leeds University is sponsoring a new play by Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, Nobel prizewinner and Leeds graduate, which is premiered at the West Yorkshire Playhouse until...
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HM loan arranger
The Government's plans to privatise the student loans scheme were confirmed in the Queen's Speech this week. Her Majesty said legislation would be introduced to enable students to choose between...
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Bloodshed at Nigerian university
The Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria's largest higher education establishment, has been closed following the murder of Bamidele Bandipo, director of the university's teaching hospital. Angry...
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Teaching and research 'in deficit'
University finances will become much tighter over the next three years, with increased external income needed to offset a growing deficit on teaching and research. This is the message of the Higher...
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First step to single point score system
A single point score system for all qualifications used to enter higher education may be created to put vocational study on an equal footing with A levels, it emerged this week. The Universities and...
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Mouse patent contested
The patenting of a mouse genetically engineered to develop cancer will be contested in the European Patent Office next week by 17 groups including a United Kingdom coalition of animal welfare...
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The skills backlash
The millionth NVQ was awarded on Wednesday. It was supposed to be a milestone marking the week when, as the PR people put it, NVQs "came of age". But this week will be remembered very differently -...
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Fire in the provinces
Toulouse, Metz, Aix-en-Provence, Marne-la-Vallee - this week strikes have been, to use Le Figaro's word, cascading through the French universities. So far agitation has been mainly in the provinces...
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Canadian bounty
(Photograph) - Canadian bounty: Michael G. Gibbons, dean of the graduate school and director of the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, has been named as the new secretary...
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Head start
(Photograph) - Head start: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, honed over the last decade so that it can produce a "movie" of the body's soft tissues, may be the key to understanding migraine, Laurie Hall,...