Professor on the right track
Happy the academic who can say "If I'd written my own job description, I'd have come up with something like this". Colin Divall will still be subject to such blights on life as research selectivity,...
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Muslim course network collapses
West Midlands colleges have been advised to be extra cautious about course franchising after the collapse of a Birmingham community class network. The warning came from the Further Education Funding...
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Economy at risk from cash cuts
The threat to higher education quality from underfunding imperils the entire Scottish economy, the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals has warned. COSHEP has made a submission to the...
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Deaf blind gene is isolated
Scientists announced yesterday that they have identified a gene responsible for one of the major forms of deaf blindness. The disease, Usher syndrome type 1b, causes children to be born deaf and...
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Loophole
(Photograph) - Loophole: final-year law students Nichola Carter and Robert Borwick of Plymouth University prepare to offer free legal services to the public through the Free Representation Unit of...
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Statistics hide graduate jobs gulf
The removal of the binary line seems to have benefited graduates of the new universities, as the latest Government figures show employment prospects improving more quickly for them than for graduates...
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Boot goes in
But what was the question? The British Medical Association's news review includes a column in which Carol Cooper "clears up those thorny matters of etiquette that so often trouble GPs". The final...
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Car perk
Summing up the mild confusion felt by many on beholding the term "staff development" - nobody knows exactly what it is, but at the same time few question that it is a Good Thing - comes the following...
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King's seal
A political straw in the wind? Essex professor of politics Anthony King, long famously sceptical about Labour's electoral chances and given to seminar papers asking "Can Labour Win?", recently...
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Healthy exercise
Neat Juxtapositions no 402: Even as members of the Public Accounts Committee were expressing a certain incredulity at Neil Merritt's ability to run Portsmouth University at the same time as chairing...
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Papal bull
When top physicist Marshall Rosenbluth was introduced to his audience at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as "the pope of fusion" he responded by announcing: "I do have...
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Hurd instinct
Is the Foreign Office as supportive of East European studies and academic links as its support for the funding councils' inquiry into the region might suggest? Not according to the front-page...
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Not Frying tonight
A fresh gloss on Stephen Fry's disappearance from his West End performance in Cell Mates. Mr Fry is rector of Dundee University, and because of changes to Cell Mates, had to cancel a show he was...
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Prophet of doom
Prophecy of the week comes from the most recent edition of the Directory of Social Change, where, under "The Baring Foundation", can be read: "Its rate of growth is, as the chairman has noted in...
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Euro-vote against gene patents
The European Parliament voted against a directive allowing the patenting of human genes on Wednesday after seven years of consideration. European Union procedures lay down that a proposal which...