Training Tessas
The Labour party will report this month on plans for tax-free "training TESSAs". The training levy in the party's 1992 manifesto is likely to be abandoned in favour of tax reliefs and training...
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Open book
Work has started on a Pounds 1.5 million three-storey extension to the library at the University of Essex adjoining the Albert Sloman Library and providing an extra 250 reader spaces. The Higher...
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Library faces cuts
British Library redundancies and service cuts loomed closer today as directors submitted their final Pounds 30 million cost-cutting plans to the Government. The library has already said that some 200...
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Lib Dem students back Ashdown funding policy
Liberal Democrat students have pledged support for smaller grants and bigger loans, proposed in their party's new higher education paper. Calls for a reformed further and higher education funding...
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Cine qua non
(Photograph) - Joost Hunningher, director of last week's Lumi re Festival at the University of Westminster, shoulders an early film camera as he meets a Mutant Turtle at the centenary of the Lumi re...
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A triumph for science
The finale of our great balloon debate was last week. In it, the faculties of science, social science and humanities argued about which should survive. The other two have to be ejected from an...
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Equal misery in 5% cut
Top-notch universities have lost out to more vulnerable institutions in a share-the-misery exercise applied to funding allocations for 1996/97, announced yesterday. Institutions which might have...
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Teikyo two in Aids scandal, Tokyo
Vice president Takeshi Abe of private Teikyo University, Japan, which has a branch campus at Durham and has supported two colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, has resigned after being accused of murder...
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Charity warning
Medical research charities have issued their strongest warning yet that they will not pay for university infrastructure, such as laboratories or major equipment. They are increasingly worried that...
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Ron's lot sorted by Easter
The membership of Sir Ron Dearing's review of higher education is expected to be agreed before Easter. The main issue confronting Education and Employment Secretary Gillian Shephard, who will...
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Physics posts have rocketed sky high
Academic appointments in particle physics and astronomy have grown strongly in recent years despite a decline in research funding for the disciplines. Ken Pounds, chief executive of the Particle...
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Moss is possible oil-slick mopper
A Cardiff academic who has been testing a new method of oil spill clean-up says it could have made a great contribution to mopping up the oil released by the tanker Sea Empress at Milford Haven,...
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Oxford Brookes snubs president's complaints
A committee of senior staff at Oxford Brookes University has rejected all but three of the 66 complaints made by former student union president Mags Whelan against her former executive. But...
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Raise your glasses, please
(Photograph) - Raise your glasses, please: Leonard Hewitt's Hollings Building at Manchester Metropolitan University - nicknamed the "toast rack" - is one of eight post war university buildings to be...
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Stature and her liberty
Marina Warner's position outside mainstream academia may have served her well, says Elaine Williams What is a woman from Vogue doing taking on the Church?' That's what the critics were saying. You...