Employers may back training levy
The CBI this week refused to rule out the possibility of backing a compulsory training levy on employers after hearing a passionate plea from trade unionist Bill Jordan at its annual conference in...
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Call for visits
University and college lecturers are calling for the appointment of a Visitor in every higher education institution to ensure that allegations of institutional abuse can be investigated independently...
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Lib Dem seminar
Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman, is preparing to hold a seminar on the future of his party's policies on higher education, after declaring previous plans "unsustainable". The...
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Business plan
City University Business School has appointed three new professors with the aim of reinforcing its international research programme. The university's 1994 centenary programme has provided the funding...
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Infectious link
The department of medical microbiology in Edinburgh University's medical faculty has formed a five-year link with leading pharmaceutical company, Bayer, which will help combat infectious diseases.
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Canny lassies
The proportion of Scottish pupils staying on in the sixth year has more than doubled over ten years, from 20.5 per cent in 1983 to 41.7 per cent in 1993. Forty-eight per cent of female school leavers...
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Excellent Hull
The University of Hull's school of chemistry was rated excel-lent in this year's quality assessment exercise, not satisfactory, as reported in The THES on September 30.
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V-cs bid for cash to invest in research
Vice chancellors are set to make research and teaching infrastructure a priority in their future public spending bids. The Council of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, meeting today,...
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Promotion ladder blocks equality
Most universities radically reduce monitoring by gender, race and disability once someone is appointed, according to Natfhe, the university and college lecturers' union. The union yesterday launched...
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All you need is Love
(Photograph) - All you need is Love: Liverpool Royal Infirmary, derelict for 16 years, is to be redeveloped as a health care, teaching and research centre by Liverpool University and the North West...
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Welsh funding goes its own way
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales has set out its plans for the next three years in a corporate strategy which is increasingly distinctive from that of its English counterpart. The...
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Flu vaccine misses its target
Levels of flu vaccinations across Britain are woefully inadequate, partly because GPs and hospital doctors are not pushing the vaccine enough, according to Leicester University expert Karl Nicholson...
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Terrorist threat denied
The London School of Economics has strongly denied allegations that it is a recruiting ground for Muslim terrorists. A spokesman for the Indian High Commission in London this week named only one...
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Squirrel nut
(Photograph) - Bleddyn Richards has just completed an MSc at the University of Glamorgan on the impact of grey squirrels on commercial forestry. The animals look pretty but breed ferociously,...
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Survival battle for herbal medicine
Herbalists are predicting European medicine regulations will spell the end for their practice -- just as what is hailed as the first herbal medicine degree in Britain started at Middlesex University...