Inner cities win the Lottery
Huw Richards and David Charter report on sport in HE and Fe after John Major's announcement of a national review. The Sports Council is to offer greater amounts of National Lottery funds to inner...
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Earth gets grip on the matter
The sun's sporadic release of matter, which can disrupt power lines and spacecraft, will be predictable within two years. The bombardment of earth with a huge cloud of matter can prove very damaging...
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Medical schools press for cash
Medical schools are warning Government that they must have funding for planned student expansion. The Government is to boost intakes by 10 per cent over the next five years, from 4,470 to 4,970, but...
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Academics keep CAT in the bag
Universities, colleges and professional bodies are reluctant to pull the wide array of credit accumulation and transfer systems across further and higher education into a unified framework with a...
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Skill breaks disabled block
This has been a year of anniversaries for Deborah Cooper. Skill, the National Bureau for Students with Disabilities, which she runs, is 21 years old and the Open University, which has just awarded...
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Reasons to riot, a need to believe
Max Farrar arrived promptly on the scene of the rioting in Leeds two weeks ago. A sociologist living and working in the notorious Chapeltown district of the city, Mr Farrar interprets communities...
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Tax break for best trainers, trainees
The statutory minimum wage and tax system should be developed to privilege individuals and companies who invest in training, according to leading educationist Sir Christopher Ball. Sir Christopher...
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Dream with a mission
Simon Targett reports from the Training and Enterprise Council annual conference on Shephard's vision of her new super department. The new Department for Education and Employment is seeking a popular...
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TECS get vote for changing future
Training and Enterprise Councils will be given a high priority by the new Department for Education and Employment but could face some substantial restructuring, according to James Paice, the minister...
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Innkeeping with success
(Photograph) - Innkeeping with success: Alexandria Gardiner and Charles Cole, pupils of the Licensed Victuallers' School and winners of the 1994 William Grant Centenary Awards, start their award's...
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Sporting life
However inclusive the intended athletic scholarships scheme is, it is unlikely to reproduce some of the academic performances of past university sportsmen. Oxford cricketers in particular appear to...
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Wise owls
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council recently hosted a celebratory lunch for all those departments which had achieved an excellent rating in its teaching quality assessments. But there has...
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Cliff hanger
Mixed fortunes for distinguished early modern historian Cliff Davies of Wadham College, Oxford. After seeing his daughter Liz on the receiving end of a vicious press campaign following her selection...
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Sitting comfortably
While 16 years of Conservative rule have been blamed by some for Britain's brain drain, there is an argument that it has helped keep some pretty useful talent in our universities. John Ramsden, about...
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Crib sheet
An appeal in Portsmouth University's staff newsletter for a wooden baby's cot has so far not brought any offers of help. But perhaps the purchase of the next item in the classified ads (portable...