Staying up late with Tony Blair
Tony Blair's political career has not come as a great surprise to an ex-academic in a good position to know. Today Geoff Gallop, a fellow student at St John's, Oxford in the early 1970s, is also a...
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Whitehall in waiting
FAR FROM being a period of peaceful interregnum, election time is one when civil servants are working almost as furiously as their would-be political masters. Whoever takes office early next week,...
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Staff and Education Development Association
SEDA was set up in 1993 when the Standing Conference on Educational Development joined with the SRHE's Staff Development Group in order to develop a professional standard in higher education teaching...
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Reform pace upsets geologists
RAPID and radical restructuring at the historic Geological Society of London is causing concern among fellows who say they are not being consulted. A letter to the president and officers of the...
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Universities and Colleges Staff Development Agency
UCoSDA is an agency of the CVCP and was set up in 1989. Its main role is to carry out research and promote continuing professional development among academics. It has published a number of reports,...
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Battle over training models
VICECHANCELLORS have set up a working party to thrash out a policy on the formal training of lecturers in a bid to head off compulsory licensing of academics after the Dearing inquiry reports. The...
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Fax flurry sparks fury at Royal music academy
THE POLICE have been called to the Royal Academy of Music following a flurry of "scurrilous" faxes. Originating from inside the academy and signed by "RAM staff", the faxes have been sent to the...
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Society funds may save science scheme
AN INTERNATIONAL science collaboration programme, heavily used by British academics, may get help from the Geological Society following the withdrawal of United Kingdom government funding, writes...
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Testing pushes prisoners to hard drugs
MANDATORY drug testing in prison is failing, according to research at the University of Central England in Birmingham. Prisons must test between 5 and 10 per cent of their inmates each month. A...
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Parents of sick children face lonely vigil
PARENTS whose children have a life-threatening illness usually have to learn by trial and error the medical care that must be carried out at home to keep their offspring alive, a study has found....
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Pompeii's lessons yet to be learned
VOLCANO risk management is as much an issue for sociologists, economists and educationists as it is for geologists, the Geological Society conference was told. Flavio Dobran, of the Global Volcanic...
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Italy rejects lecturers' calls
The Italian higher education ministry has responded to growing international criticism of its treatment of foreign language lecturers in its universities. The official report on the professional...
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Restorers return to glory
Three years ago, Rome's once-glorious Central Restoration Institute seemed doomed to slide into apathy and mediocrity, a victim of mismanagement and of appointments dictated by politics rather than...
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Fatah registers council victory
THE PRO-FATAH shabiba (youth branch) emerged victorious from this month's student council elections at Bir Zeit University in Ramallah in the West Bank. The clear endorsement of Fatah and the pro-...
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Poll halts reform of student support
THE REFORM of the student support system in France has been shelved following the snap call of parliamentary elections. President Jacques Chirac's decision to seek a new mandate came as pressure...