Rave review
It is clearly time for the society's Young Rural Researchers to change their name. One of its members, Elizabeth Hyde, a Bristol University PhD student, has been researching drug-taking by 14 to 20-...
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Caius cut
With constituent parts of the universities of London and Wales periodically interested in secession, can our other collegiate institutions be far behind? One alumnus of Gonville and Caius College,...
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Branson's pickle
Richard Branson may have survived the premature end to his round-the-world ballooning bid, but there was no such luck for equipment from the University of East Anglia's school of environmental...
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Street wise: Andy Loughe
(Photograph) - Street wise: Andy Loughe hopes to take the education route out of homelessness via Liverpool University
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Roof justice
Roof justice: police escorted these huge sheets of roofing on their journey from Merseyside to the University of Hertfordshire last week. The sheets will shield a Pounds 16 million Learning Resource...
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Get smart with a nous test
Employability is the key to a job for graduates. Jonathan Brill describes a new test that gives students the chance to prove their skills and employers a measure of them Many jobs attract hundreds,...
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Beggars belief
Just when you were starting to think that the level of political debate could not fall much further without the protagonists starting to grunt, in steps alumnus to be proud of No: 85 with his...
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Spruce Bruce: the National Galleries of Scotland
(Photograph) - Spruce Bruce: the National Galleries of Scotland have produced a CD-ROM which stars a lifesize reconstruction of Robert the Bruce, who defeated the English at Bannockburn in 1314. Iain...
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V-cs attack VAT and pay levels
VAT REGULATIONS and other "unnecessary and intrusive" rules and financial constraints on universities should be scrapped, the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has told the Dearing inquiry...
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Private sector poised for boom
PRIVATE higher education could absorb rising student numbers without increasing the Government's education budget burden and without excluding students unable to pay tuition fees, a key private...
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Accredit where it's due
Students doing voluntary work may soon be able to gain a certificate recognising the skills they have gained. Scadu is pioneering the idea in eight student groups in early February. It hopes...
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Royal Society calls for teaching boost
THE ROYAL Society has told the Dearing inquiry into higher education that a teaching and learning council should be created to encourage innovative, high-quality teaching in universities, writes Kam...
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Royal Society calls for teaching boost
* A long-term study of graduate destinations has been submitted to the Dearing inquiry to help it make better estimates of graduate supply and demand, writes Olga Wojtas. Iain McNicoll, professor of...
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Imperial gets most research kit kitty
Imperial College, London, and Warwick University have come out in front of Oxford and Cambridge in a national competition for research equipment funding. Imperial was the biggest winner with five...
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New learning skill, new life off the street
While Labour leader Tony Blair was telling the Big Issue magazine his views on getting beggars off the streets, one of the magazine's vendors was putting his words into practice. Andy Loughe, who has...