Ministers agree to slash space budget
European space ministers last week agreed on an efficiency drive at the European Space Agency to cut the agency's costs by at least 15 per cent over the next five years. The deal owes much to the...
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Monumental show:Former students of Carmarthenshire College of Technology and Art, Paul Hughes and Gwyn Jones
(Photograph) - Monumental show: Former students of Carmarthenshire College of Technology and Art, Paul Hughes and Gwyn Jones have set up an exhibition at the college examining the sometimes...
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Professions change quality role
Professional bodies are abandoning their direct role in the monitoring of quality on university courses, according to a new report from the Quality in Higher Education project at the University of...
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Bernstein honoured by his peers
The sociologist Basil Bernstein has "inspired, intrigued, delighted and annoyed" generations of teachers and researchers across the world, an international gathering of sociologists of education and...
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Ernest endeavour
Alumni to be proud of no 15: The medically-unusual Ernest Saunders, former Guinness boss now attempting to redress his legal difficulty of a few years ago, learnt some of what he knows (and...
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Infamous footsteps
And warm congratulations to the Glasgow University football team, who have qualified for the first round of the Scottish Cup. Let's hope they fare better than their predecessors of 1960, who also...
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Tale of two cities
Oh well, there go Brian Roper's chances of becoming a big wheel in the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals while Gareth Roberts is chairman. It is not that the North London v-c's almost...
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Minister defends Ropa record
Science minister Ian Taylor has rebuffed criticism of the multimillion pound Realising Our Potential Award scheme, insisting that it is "fully living up to expectations". Announcing the publication...
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Cost threat to teacher courses
Some universities may pull out of teacher training because of plans published today to set a common price for teacher education courses in England from 1997 onwards. The scheme would also rate...
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Oxbridge men keep top jobs
Oxbridge graduates have retained their hold on further and higher education in the Department for Education and Employment's newly restructured senior ranks. Only three of the nine officials at board...
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Fry's delight
Actor and entertainer Stephen Fry, who has been somewhat elusive in recent months, is appearing at Dundee University next week to be reinstalled for a further three years as university rector. The...
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Scout's outrage
As any Tom, Dick or Andrew Roberts can tell you, the way to get public and media attention for history is to lay into one of British history's traditional heroic figures. No surprise then that the...
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Listening banker
Suitable modesty last week on behalf of Terry Thomas, managing director of the Cooperative Bank, launching the business and ecology centre which the bank is funding at four Manchester universities (...
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Nobel divorce prize
Robert Lucas may have made a lot of money from the theory of rational expectations, but his former wife has just got half of it. Possibly the most conceited clause ever included in a divorce...
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A star in Labour's new shadow team
Ex-academic Stephen Byers joined the expanded shadow employment and education team this week as Labour completed its front bench appointments. Mr Byers, 42, has been employment whip for the past year...