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A case of mistaken identity saved junior education minister Alan Howarth from an uncomfortable few minutes in the company of another new Labour member whose memory inconveniently stretches back to...
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Astral planing
The cessation of hostilities between Glasgow University AUT and vice chancellor Graeme Davies, given to strictures about "passengers" who do too little research, means that staff there can now smile...
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Learning to share
The Further Education Funding Council has had its nose put slighly out of joint with the news that the Association of Colleges is to host the launch of the Kennedy Report next week. Apparently Helena...
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It's better to travel
With the appointment last week of Anne Campbell as John Battle's parliamentary private secretary, speculation is mounting as to who will chair the House of Commons select committee on science and...
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Standing up to God
The Australian academic who took on a church elder in a costly court battle over a Turkish rock formation which the latter claimed contained Noah's Ark has been made an honorary fellow of the...
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Human resourcing
With more than 100 redundancies in the last academic year, a vote of no confidence in the vice chancellor and a deficit of nearly Pounds 1.5 million, staff at Luton University need cheering up. And...
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Hague's fairy godfather
Alumnus to be proud of no 113, Lord Owen, may turn out to have made his most significant contribution to British politics by intervening in the 1989 Richmond by-election. An apparent sitter for the...
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Charitable status quo
OXBRIDGE colleges say a full-scale review of registered charities is unlikely to have any effect on their charitable status, writes Harriet Swain. The Charity Commission is considering a review of...
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Kall Kwik aims to print by degrees
A HIGH street printing chain is following Ford and British Aerospace by jumping on the "corporate university" bandwagon. Kall Kwik, the quick print and copy franchise group, will advertise next month...
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Plea for war on drugs
DRUGS and alcohol pose serious risks for universities in the 1990s and must be tackled more effectively, student managers have warned. While recent surveys have found widespread drug use in...
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Private sector deals survive review
THE TREASURY'S review of the flagging Private Finance Initiative has recommended that government departments should prioritise all their PFI pathfinder schemes to increase the chances of projects...
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Welfare to work may benefit colleges
WHEN Gordon Brown sits down at the end of next Wednesday's Budget speech, will universities know any more about their financial futures? Probably not. It seems they will have to carry on preparing...
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Cinderella sector needs better outfit
In a radical rethink of post-16 learning, Helena Kennedy is pushing for a seamless education system, shorn of bias with better access for the poor. Alan Thomson reports HELENA Kennedy's long-awaited...
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Blair's 'feeble' dream
TONY BLAIR's dream for a truly learning society is based on "incomplete, one-sided and feeble theory", says one of the UK's leading educationalists. Frank Coffield, who delivered the King's College...
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Banging a different drum
A LEADING writer and broadcaster from outside the academic world has been appointed to head the first world music department in a British university. Simon Broughton, a BBC music producer and editor...