Surgeon's shinguard safety coup
An orthopaedic surgeon at Leicester University is seeking a Pounds 150,000 Medical Research Council grant for a project he believes could save the National Health Service at least Pounds 3.5 million...
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Who governs the FE governors?
End-of-year quizzes are commonplace. It might be more fun to start the year with one. I think 1995 might be the year of accountability. All the focus is on the question to whom should governors be...
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The real end of the tower block affair
I read T. A. Markus's review of Tower Block by Glendinning & Muthesius (THES, January 13) and was struck how Professor Markus managed to miss key points in the history of tower block...
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Science policy for debate
Professor Jones has apparently made two errors. The tribes with whom British Israelites identify were not lost "at the Exodus", but at the downfall of the Northern Kingdom several centuries later....
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Email benefits for vice chancellors
Lucy Hodges's article (Multimedia, THES, January 13) on the use of e-mail by the president of Ohio University implies that his widespread use of this form of technology is both novel and unique among...
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Academic freedom council backs law student's case
The Inns of Court School of Law is accused of undermining the visitorial process designed to ensure individuals who believe they are victims of injustice have a right of appeal to an external body...
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Cloth caps and clogs banished
The term textiles conjures up images of linens, yarns, woven fabrics, man-made fibres and similar materials used in the clothing industry. Yet at Leeds University department of textile industries the...
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Child care run like fast-food industry
Child welfare in the UK has adopted the style of the fast food industry, according to a leading social policy researcher. David Thorpe, senior lecturer in applied social science at Lancaster...
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Glasnost comes to Bournemouth
A certain amount of caginess is inevitable in new vice chancellors as they accustom themselves to their role as half human and half the embodiment of a large and complex academic institution. But...
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Colleges pay the price for degrees
Almost a fifth of further education colleges are now offering degree or sub-degree level courses supported by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. But the funding mechanism was not...
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Women win re-entry fellowships
Two women researchers are back in the laboratory this week after family career breaks of up to 12 years. They are the first recipients of the Wellcome Trust's research re-entry fellowships, each...
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Art surgeons
(Photograph) - Students from Wolverhampton University school of education art have been invited to produce a ceramic wall panel for the Victor Goldman Unit at the Eastman Dental Hospital in London....
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Ulster brain drain poll
The Northern Ireland Higher Education Council has launched a new investigation into the brain drain from the province. It will focus on whether the proposed new University of Ulster campus in west...
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Scots FE pay talks abandoned
National negotiations for Scotland's 43 further education colleges ended this week, with the major staff union warning of imminent industrial action. The Employers' Association for Scottish Further...
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Improving marine safety
Reducing high levels of deaths and injuries at sea is the aim of a Pounds 1.5 million maritime safety research centre being established at Cardiff University's department of maritime studies. An...