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Richard Portes, professor of economics at Birkbeck College, London, has been appointed to a chair at the London Business School. He will continue in his other roles as director of the Centre for...
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Fortune 500
The national university-industry collaboration initiative, the Teaching Company Scheme, has notched up more than 500 current projects for the first time. Its annual report for 1993/94 says the...
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Explosion charge
A lecturer is to be prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive after an explosion in a chemistry laboratory in which a student's left hand was seriously injured. Clive Bird, reader in chemistry at...
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Women on top
A female mathematician is to head Bournemouth University from December. Gillian Slater, 45, is pro vice chancellor at Manchester Metropolitan University. A woman scientist will also head the...
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Too many labs ignored
John Krebs, chief executive of the Natural Environment Research Council, last week called for an examination of university as well as civil service laboratories in reshaping public sector research....
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Languages slip from minor to major
Eight languages have lost the right to bid for minority subject funding because they are attracting too many students. Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Greek and Hebrew have all...
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Loan 'insult'
Douglas Trainer, president of the National Union of Students Scotland, has condemned the CBE awarded to Ronald Harrison, chief executive of the Student Loans Company, as "a sleazy insult." Mr Trainer...
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Aberdeen angst
Maxwell Irvine, principal of Aberdeen University and one of about a dozen potential candidates for chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council quoted by headhunters Spencer Stuart, has...
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Journey by junk
(Photograph) - Journey by junk: John Stevenson, project director, left, and architect Jasper Jacob help Stephen Cox, Commonwealth Institute director general, play with his toy model of the institute'...
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Scots unions split on FE package
The future of national bargaining for Scotland's further education lecturers is in the balance, with staff being balloted on a new deal allowing some conditions to be negotiated locally. The Scottish...
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Unions clash on mergers
A membership war between the two leading trade unions in higher education is set to explode unless a major disagreement over bargaining rights and recognition when smaller institutions merge with...
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Future imperative: The Grand Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne in Paris
(Photograph) - Future imperative: The Grand Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne in Paris. Last weekend 15,000 students from all over France crowded into the university to cross question a glittering array...
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Redundancy looms at Goldsmiths
Goldsmiths College is asking for voluntary staff redundancy to prepare for the next academic year, when the Higher Education Funding Council safety net which has protected it is withdrawn. Earlier...
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Funds row threatens space project
The British leader of a Europe-wide space project now under threat says that the United Kingdom will be reduced to "hang-ing onto people's coat tails" if problems in space research funding are not...
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Reluctance to `green' speaks volumes
The "greening" of the higher education curriculum is being resisted because it is seen as a form of political correctness although activists in other areas influence the curriculum unchallenged...