No sanctuary
Also present at the CVCP party - much Schadenfreude over the fate of civil servants at the newly merged Department for Education and Employment, where there are now more senior civil servants than...
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Alas, poor Warwick
Among the entertainments of the coming academic year should be watching the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals incoming management team of chair Gareth Roberts and chief executive Diana...
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Getting to bottom of beauty
How to solve one of the greatest cosmological mysteries - why matter survived to be around today and was not annihilated at the beginning of the universe - has become clearer with research reported...
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Safe sun
(Photograph) - Safe sun: Students from Paignton Community College take part in a "Be safe in the sun project" as part of a national pilot for GNVQ health and social care.
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BTEC bill causes budget chaos
Colleges are furious at unexpectedly high bills for their vocational courses after an awarding body said its fees would rise by up to 20 per cent. The decision by the Business & Technology...
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Research firms hope for funding
Independent research firms are confident that their long battle for access to support from research councils could soon be over. In a report out last week, but finalised several weeks ago, the...
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Union attacks Pounds 15,000 award
Scotland's largest teaching union has accused the Robert Gordon University of undermining staff confidence and tarnishing its reputation following a settlement deal with a redundant academic. Jack...
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Sussex professor appeals to visitor for senate post
A prominent physics professor has called on the visitor of Sussex University to reinstate him to senate after vice chancellor Gordon Conway cut short his term of office. Norman Dombey, pictured right...
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Sacked head fights Conservative council
The sacked head of a Buckinghamshire adult education centre is to seek reinstatement at an industrial tribunal. Iris Brooksbank claims she was victimised by her employers after offering student...
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Visa block on Iraqi
A dissident Iraqi academic was prevented from delivering a devastating critique of universities under the Saddam Hussein regime because the Foreign Office failed to issue a visa in time for him to...
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Nolan demands that mistakes go public
Firm principles of openness and accountability for the running of universities, colleges and training councils are to be set out by the Nolan Committee on Standards in Public Life. The committee,...
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Professional help
Lord Henley, the new education and employment minister, has rejected calls for enhanced loans for medical and dental students. Labour and Liberal Democrat peers said that those studying to be doctors...
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Bucks goes solo
The Privy Council has granted degree-awarding powers to Buckinghamshire College, currently a college of Brunel University. The college aims for full university status by 1999.
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Race case pays out
Senior law lecturer, Amir Majid, has settled his race discrimination case against London Guildhall University for Pounds 15,000 compensation and a two-year paid sabbatical. In May an industrial...
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