Temporary hitch
Labour Party leader Tony Blair was pushed for a commitment to remove "waiver clauses" for staff on temporary contracts at the Scottish Trades Union Congress last week. The Association of University...
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Scots think tank
Academics meet industrialists next week in a forum on how to capitalise on Scotland's scientific research. The Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Enterprise are bringing together both sides in...
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Old age can be a golden era
Living to 120 may be a pleasant experience that is relatively free from disease, not a chore of enduring decades of ill-health, a leading geriatric psychiatrist suggested this week. The theory is a...
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Savage at school helm
Vice chancellors should beware of Nigel Savage. He is about to take the helm of a new "university" and is out to get a nice slice of their business, writes Tony Tysome. Professor Savage, one of the...
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V-cs told to toughen their act for budget
Higher education heads should prepare to fight their corner in one of the toughest ever public expenditure rounds this autumn, Michael Bichard, permanent secretary of the Department for Education and...
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Learning market launch
Education, industry and Government have joined forces in a unique campaign designed to sell learning to the public. The Campaign for Learning, launched on Wednesday, promises to market learning like...
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Queen's supports legislature move
Queen's University is backing a plan to take the "storm" out of Stormont. Its outreach centre in Armagh is supporting an ambitious project to site a new parliamentary body 40 miles from the...
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Happy days
(Photograph) - Happy days: Students at Wi****ersrand University, which with other universities and technikons have become part of a united system
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Fired by a training spirit
Trade union leaders have called on employers to change their "hire and fire" culture to one of "train and retain" to build workplace partnerships for lifelong learning. Delegates at the TUC's...
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Observatories set for private sell-off
The Department of Trade and Industry was expected yesterday to open bidding for the ownership of the Royal observatories to the private sector. Both the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Royal...
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Veterinary school faces job losses
The Royal Veterinary College is facing staff cuts because of financial difficulties after its grant allocation was cut by 8.7 per cent in February. Principal Lance Lanyon, who also leads the...
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Trains fair
The sole repository of absolute truth is of course mathematics and the latest issue of Mathematics Today reveals another small step forward. Barry Doe tells of a country whose rail service has...
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Socks shopped
The journal later reports that Murphy's Law is alive and well and living in your sock drawer. Robert Matthews investigated the dictum that "if anything can go wrong it will" by creating a theoretical...
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Return to Coventry
How sure can we be that the Higher Education Funding Council for England is heading in the right direction with its plans for teaching and research? A question worth asking after the adventures of...
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Up Pompey?
Mounting tension in the office of Labour's further and higher education spokesman Bryan Davies. No, nothing to do with trivialities like Dearing, student loans legislation or the party's forthcoming...