Rewards for Internet bright sparks
AN AWARD scheme has been launched by the Department of Trade and Industry to reward students who create top-quality applications for the Internet. The Pounds 10,000 Young Information Society...
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Oswald takes up primary health care joint chair
A CAMBRIDGE University academic is to take up a joint chair supported by the universities of Newcastle and Teesside and the Tees health Authority. Nigel Oswald, director of general practice teaching...
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Students look to radio link to open up airwaves
RESTRICTIVE broadcasting legislation makes it difficult for many university and college students to listen to radio stations run by and for students. But the affiliation next month of the Student...
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Art colleges team up for jobs study
Twelve art colleges are planning to join forces to carry out a major study of the contribution of art and design students to the national economy. Led by Birmingham Institute of Art and Design,...
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Threat of more animal rights activist attacks
ANIMAL rights activists turned on the Government this week following attacks on five Oxford academics this month. Animal Liberation Front protesters demonstrated at Labour party headquarters in...
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Sheffield University
(Photograph) - SHEFFIELD University has bought the music library of British conductor and impresario Sir Thomas Beecham. The collection, acquired by private sale from Sir Thomas's widow, includes...
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Classroom costs revised
THE FUNDING council has bowed to pressure from higher education departments ranked as classroom-based, and therefore low-cost, and announced further re-pricings in its proposed funding methodology...
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Employers to get say on degrees
EMPLOYERS would play a key role in setting the compulsory "threshold" standards for degrees, recommended in Sir Ron Dearing's report, under Quality Assurance Agency plans. The QAA has strongly...
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What's in a name?
Leave nothing unquestioned. Think the unthinkable. The Dearing committee may have taken this advice a little too far in drawing up their bibliography. Ian McNay, head of Anglia Polytechnic University...
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Postcard or jumbo size
Geologist, press officer, novelist. We always knew that Ted Nield, late of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and now science and communications officer of the Geological Society, was a man of many...
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Getting a skinful
If deputy premier John Prescott wants to continue taking an active interest in crab life we recommend he contact Southampton University marine scientist Ken Collins, who has just found what he...
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What employers love the most
In the third of our series on degrees we look at what students can expect from ancient and modern subjects CLASSICS may conjure images of dusty declension books, full of amo, amas, amat but it seems...
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Virtual unreality
OK, so maybe distance does lend enchantment to the view, but London-based THES staff are still finding it a little difficult to recognise Thames Valley University from the enthusiastic publicity...
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Blowing her top
Alumnus to be proud of, number 131, is our never-a-dull-moment international development minister Clare Short, recently in the news for complementing Montserrat's volcanic activity with some of her...
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More power to the RIBA
The poor performance of many architecture departments in last year's research assessment exercise is forcing the Royal Institute of British Architects to rethink the structure of architecture courses...