Stagecoach owner shows he has a heart
Brian Souter, owner of the Stagecoach company, has given Glasgow University Pounds 1 million towards the cost of Scotland's first magnetic resonance imaging scanner dedicated to heart disease...
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Troubled ocean lab plans shift to Liverpool
The Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, one of three institutes that make up the troubled Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences, is to forge closer links with nearby University of Liverpool. John...
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Bouncers display their brain power
Bar brawlers will be battling brains as well as brawn if bouncers sign on for a course offered by the Plymouth College of Further Education. Eighteen bouncers today receive the first Door Supervisors...
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Rise in awards for women
The number of women on full-time higher education courses with support from the Student Awards Agency for Scotland rose from 44,500 in 1992-93 to 59,300 in 1998-99, while the number of male students...
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Derby in trouble again
An internal audit has uncovered major failings at another of Derby University's overseas businesses. The university's academic audit committee has described as "unacceptable" and "inadequate" Derby's...
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'Pay, for me, is not the be-all and end-all of life'
Simon Parker (right) decided to pursue a postgraduate certificate in education because of a desire to help others. Currently a PGCE student in secondary art and design at Chester College, he had...
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TTA friendship - with strings
Barely seven weeks after taking thehelm at the Teacher Training Agency, chief executive Ralph Tabberer (left) has already been able to offer the university sector something it has been crying out for...
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Name and shame
I enjoyed Gargi Bhattach-aryya's article ("Feelgood is no good", THES, March 31). It is all very well setting targets and quotas for the entry of women and ethnic groups into higher education. We...
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Student blues
In focus groups conducted by Save British Science, research and undergraduate science students said the education system was not geared towards them. They felt that they had not been given enough...
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It's still not a BEd of roses
Amid all the cheer surrounding the government's Pounds 70m answer to the teacher recruitment crisis lurks gloom for universities. Phil Baty reports. University education departments face chaos...
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Research can have 'real' impact
Phil Baty's article ("Labour policy poses threat to freedom", THES, March 31) runs contrary to the government's commitment to better use of evidence and research in policy-making. Robust and...
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Research can have 'real' impact
I would like to correct some misconceptions about the Office of Science and Technology's consultation document on the Sixth European Framework Programme for Research and Development. The document is...
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Russellian logic
Leaders of the self-proclaimed elite research universities argue that their research excellence warrants a special level of undergraduate tuition fee ("Willis claims fees agreed", THES, March 31)....
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Delayed reaction
Sir Martin Harris, Manchester University vice-chancellor, is reportedly to chair a regional grouping of higher education institutions in the Northwest (For the Record, THES, March 31). Glad to hear...
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Graz boycott
When I read Chris Mulvey's reasons for why he feels he cannot attend the European Association for American Studies conference in Graz, Austria ("Doing the right thing", THES, March 31), I was...