Pension claims hit by delays
Thousands of part-time lecturers and other staff in old universities will have to wait until the autumn to know if they can claim pension rights backdated to 1976. The delay follows the decision of a...
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Mentors prove to be fine guides
Nearly 90 per cent of students on mentoring schemes say that their self-confidence has grown and 30 per cent say that their academic work has improved as a result. The National Mentoring Consortium...
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Radical changes ahead for the Kirk
The Church of Scotland's general assembly last month approved proposals for a radical reform of education and training for the ministry. The Kirk is unique in having no seminaries of its own. Its...
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Bangor export program
Computer programs developed at Bangor University to improve dyslexic's linguistic skills are now being used in Romania to teach English to local children. Xavier Educational Software, a small...
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Superstore plan boosts peaceline campus
The University of Ulster's planned peaceline campus in West Belfast has received a surprise boost from the retail sector. F A Wellworth, one of Northern Ireland's leading chainstores, has announced...
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Churches send Irish students to the US
More than 100 students from Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic will gain free placements at United States business schools under a scheme launched last month at the Washington...
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Future looks blurred
Universities and colleges must face up to the blurring of distinctions between part-time and full-time courses, and between undergraduate and postgraduate education, two professors have told Scottish...
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Think ahead
(Photograph) - Think ahead: Jon Buck, a design faculty lecturer at the Southampton Institute, was chosen from 150 UK artists to create a sculpture for the exterior of Harlesdon Magistrates Court in...
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Antarctic drilling to reveal climate change
Scientists plan to drill deep into the ice of the Antarctic to see what the materials deposited four kilometres deep can reveal about sudden changes in climate up to half a million years ago - and...
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Vacating the science hot seat
Sir William Stewart, the Government's chief scientific adviser, retires this week. He talks to Kam Patel. Sir William Stewart's retirement this week as the Government's chief scientific adviser marks...
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Snake charmer
(Photograph) - Snake charmer: The Cambridge Natural History Society held its annual Conversazione in the department of zoology last week. The 100 exhibitors included local naturalists, schools and...
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Managers get more macho
The shiny new face of further education with its caring nature and liberal outlook is challenged by fresh research that has uncovered a "disturbing" and growing trend towards a harder-edged masculine...
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Byte for bite to beat decay
Dental fillings of the future will be custom-built by a computer from porcelain, according to researchers from Liverpool University. They will be tooth-coloured and will last much longer than normal...
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Young teachers queue for charity
A hardship fund for destitute teachers is facing more and more requests for money from new graduates entering the profession. Student loans have been blamed for the sudden upsurge in cries for help...
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Are you sitting comfortably?
Terror of the dentist can be cured in 70 per cent of cases by behavioural therapy, according to research at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. And those who make it to the dentist's waiting room...