UEA sets example in policy for investment
The University of East Anglia is to become the first United Kingdom university to pursue an ethical investment policy with its central funds. The university assembly agreed the step on Monday after a...
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Hero worship
(Photograph) - Hero worship: Angela Cameron, a student at Stow College in Glasgow, sings the part of William Wallace's mother, with Kenny Gair as the hero's father in this week's premiere of the...
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'Core needs suffer' in Shefc funding
Scotland's university and college principals have attacked the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council for top-slicing Pounds 25 million for "marginal initiatives". David Caldwell, director of the...
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Research boost for fat-buster camp
Academics behind Britain's only weight-loss camp for children are to present their research to the House of Commons in an attempt to increase government support for the problems caused by obesity....
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Academic bias in new curriculum
The new curriculum for sixth-formers will not give talented students studying vocational subjects the same opportunities to shine as those studying academic subjects, delegates at a conference on the...
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Sex education row delays bill
Reforms to post-16 education and training may be delayed as MPs and peers square up for a fight over sex education in schools. Ministers this week faced the possibility that the Learning and Skills...
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Asylum worries stop academics
British government paranoia over asylum seekers is hindering the movement of academics, claim organisers of a conference on the Yugoslav crisis held in Bradford last week. Bob Jiggins, a lecturer in...
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Inside story
(Photograph) - Inside story: prison officers at Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, are able to assist in the health care of inmates following an NVQ course developed by Coventry University, the prison...
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Marxist era dawns in Glasgow
The University of Glasgow has appointed a professor of Marxist studies. The personal chair, thought to be unique in the United Kingdom, goes to Hillel Ticktin, an expert on political economy and the...
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Leicester's v-c thinks globally and locally
Ask an academic to list members of the Russell Group of elite research universities and Leicester will probably be on the list. In fact, Leicester University is not a Russell Group institution, but...
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Don's diary
December 1998 Research funding, an important part of any academic's life but I am not exactly sure how I am going to get any. I have a limited amount of funding for my research in Namibia, but the...
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Dishing dirt on Scots
Devolution has led to a resurgence of national culture north of the border. But has it gone too far? Allan MacInnes, head of Aberdeen University's history department, has started a Northern European...
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In the bad books
John Sutherland, the Lord Northcliffe professor of modern English literature at University College London, this week revealed in his Guardian column that his copy of Sylvia Plath's Ariel is 37 years...
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Words of honour
John Taylor, director general of research councils, continues to be highly unpopular because of his handling of the siting of the synchrotron. The government has announced it will be based at...
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Passport to nowhere
Just how US chemist Linus Pauling missed determining the structure of DNA was revealed by Maurice Wilkins at the opening of the building named after him and Rosalind Franklin, who obtained much of...