Looking up: Alec Shepley
(Photograph) - Looking up: Alec Shepley, a PhD art student at Manchester Metropolitan University, displays his work "Watch the Birdie", which is images of birds projected on to scaffolding and...
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'Wild boy of Bavaria' was an impostor
KASPAR HAUSER, the mysterious German foundling who many scholars believed to be the true heir to the Baden throne, was an impostor. This is the conclusion of scientists at the Institute of Forensic...
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Troubled Soton institute gets second council visit
Funding council officials are to re-visit Southampton Institute just a month after a council audit described irregularities at the institute as "minor". The Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Top and the bottom institutions in the HEFCE quality assessment overview reports
Points scored by institutions on a scale of one to four in six categories. The highest total is 24. Totals are in brackets. Italian: Top, Queen Mary and Westfield (23) Bottom, Huddersfield (15)...
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Cuts force university to extend Xmas holiday
STUDENT anger at the deterioration of Bulgarian universities is spilling on to the streets with both local protests and a one-day strike. Students are frustrated with government's seeming inability...
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Four in five want to get out
EIGHTY per cent of staff in new universities and further education colleges would seriously consider early retirement if offered, according to a new survey. The survey, to be published next week by...
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Killer bug targets halls
Students are most at risk of developing meningitis during their first weeks at university, before they have become accustomed to the infections bombarding them in their new environment, a leading...
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Universities should buy loans
THE Dearing committee will be asked to consider radical proposals to sell off the Student Loans Company to the UK's universities, it was revealed this week. Two academics from the London School of...
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A malady, ma'am!
MANAGERS at Manchester Metropolitan University this week dismissed as "mischievous" union claims that an Pounds 11 million humanities building, opened by the Queen yesterday, is unsafe and unhealthy...
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Colleges fight to avert strike
Scotland's former centrally funded colleges are lobbying their staff in a bid to avert industrial action in the coming term. Academic staff unions at the 13 institutions, which include Glasgow...
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CIHE okays fees, CBI says no
Staff still unhappy about pay, students alarmed at the prospect of fees and vice chancellors squeezed in the middle. Funding pressure built up as v-cs gathered in London this week to discuss the...
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You must wait for Dearing, NUS tells v-cs
Staff still unhappy about pay, students alarmed at the prospect of fees and vice chancellors squeezed in the middle. Funding pressure built up as v-cs gathered in London this week to discuss the...
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Fees split Russell 17
Staff still unhappy about pay, students alarmed at the prospect of fees and vice chancellors squeezed in the middle. Funding pressure built up as v-cs gathered in London this week to discuss the...
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Pay in the sky
A wrangle between the Treasury and the Department of Trade and Industry over who should meet the cost of privatising the Royal Observatories has delayed the initiative. The Particle Physics and...
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Shell not out
The Royal Geographical Society has voted overwhelmingly to retain Shell International as a corporate sponsor, following an academic-driven move to sever links with the company. There were fears about...