Programme logs on to languages
Cataloguing the languages of the world on computer is the ambitious intention of the international Logosphere programme. Fin-anced by the Leverhulme Trust, it was established by the Observatoire...
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Feathers fly as DNA combats bird crime
New realms of research into the habits of birds of prey have been opened up by scientists using the latest developments in DNA fingerprinting. "Micro-satellite DNA fingerprinting" is enabling...
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Colleges wrestle with futility of `efficiency'
David Charter finds growth targets are forcing job losses in further education. Under-recruitment of students in the light of continuing growth targets plays a large part in the pattern of redund-...
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Colleges wrestle with futility of `efficiency'
There are fears that "efficient" colleges are being penalised by the fur-ther education funding regime as forecasts of hundreds of redundancies start to come true. The most common reason given by...
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Vision of a healthy future
Gareth Roberts, the chairman-elect of the CVCP, sets out his agenda to Huw Richards. The Committee for Vision, Clout and Partnership". Well, perhaps not. But in conjuring up a new version of those...
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Numbers up but at a price
Scotland's 21 higher education institutions have had their funded student numbers boosted by more than 2 per cent, against an overall funding increase of only 1 per cent from the Scottish Higher...
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Vocational yardstick `too crude for equal opportunity'
Vocational A-level students applying for higher education places are at a disadvantage because the grading system for the new qualification is too crude, admissions chiefs say. Most academic...
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Firkin habit
Britain's first professor of addiction has chosen an appropriate base: his nearest watering hole, the Pheasant and Firkin, has the motto: "Usque ad mortem bibendum."
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Gee, what's up docs?
As research projects go, Pounds 60,000 from the Leverhulme Trust seems somewhat generous for a three-year investigation of what rabbits do in long grass. But the Scottish Agricultural College...
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CVCP calls for 20,000 more students by year 2000
An extra 20,000 students a year will have to enter higher education to meet the long-standing Government target of a one in three 18 to 21-year-old participation rate by the end of the century. The...
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Colleges falter as principals flourish
Nearly 50 further education colleges are in the red although reserves held across the 457-college sector amount to Pounds 238 million. The Public Accounts Committee heard this week that the Further...
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Constructive plan for architecture
A multidisciplinary approach to architecture education which integrates developments in technology and avoids distinctions between art and practical construction is needed to meet the professional...
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Welsh rare bit
We have always known that students were different. But quite how different was not apparent before a letter in last weekend's Wales on Sunday about plans to reschedule the Welsh Football League. M....
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Canopy canapes
Sussex University may be well clear of the safety net, but a group of its staff and students are preoccupied with that not entirely dissimilar artefact, the parachute. They work as social service...
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Massive pay-off
Given the National Lottery's need for a sizable public space every week, it was never going to be long before the draw took place in a university. And where better than last week's choice as the...