Without a dent
Alumna to be proud of No 93 is Baroness Denton, the junior Northern Ireland minister under fire for allegedly flouting the province's fair employment rules and condoning sectarianism in her private...
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Charity claims 'fraud'
The Public Accounts Committee's report on financial control of vocational training has skimmed the surface of a "multi-billion pound vocational education and training fraud", claims education human...
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DFEE called to account
National Vocational Qualifications are in trouble. Phil Baty reports on accusations of massive fraud. "Incorrect payments" by the Department for Education and Employment to providers of national...
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Snow-capped
(Photograph) - Snow-capped: Claire Crofts (left), a postgraduate sculptor at Gray's School of Art, and lecturer Sarah McKenzie-Smith, try on specialist kit donated by the marines of 45 Commando Group...
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Blair lines up food chief
PHILIP JAMES is set to become to food safety issues what Sir Ron Dearing is to higher education. Dr James, director of the Rowett Institute, an independent research body devoted to nutrition, has...
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Gaelic gets cash boost
THE GOVERNMENT is to fund Scotland's sole Gaelic college, Sabhal Mor Ostaig on Skye, on the same basis as other further education colleges in order to support the University of the Highlands and...
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Old universities retain allure
THREE QUARTERS of young university applicants would prefer to attend a traditional institution and most want to study away from home, according to recent research. A survey by the university...
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RAE achievers reap rewards
DUNDEE and St Andrews universities have emerged as the big winners in next year's Scottish funding allocations because of their success in the research assessment exercise. But the majority of the...
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Bullies in the common room
Today's pressures are increasing the incidence of victimisation, Alison Utley found. Bullying is widespread and sophisticated in higher education, new research has concluded. More than a quarter of...
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Definitions of a bully
The term "bullying" describes a range of behaviours from a persistent unwillingness to recognise performance, loyalty and achievement to repeated critical remarks and humiliating or overtly hostile...
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Public sector is dancing in the dark
Public sector dance and drama schools are complaining that they have been excluded from a multi-million pound student support scheme launched by the Arts Council. The scheme will help cover tuition...
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War of words on alien life
The possibility of life on Mars has aroused heated debate within the scientific community, THES reporters examine the issues. BRITISH scientists are expected this week to endorse claims that a...
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Portable laboratory
HOSPITALS, pharmaceutical firms and environment monitoring agencies could benefit from a new portable "micro-laboratory" being developed by researchers at Luton University. The laboratory will enable...
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Mars, the brave new utopia
MARS has become a natural backdrop for 20th-century writers wanting to create their own Utopias. According to Edward James, professor of history at the University of Reading. "It has taken the place...
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V-cs alarmed at shift in control
A BATTLE is looming for control of South Africa's 35 universities and technikons. The government seems to want greater state intervention while institutions are arguing to keep their autonomy....