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David Charter, who joined The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S in January, was this week named reporter of the year in the Regional Press Awards, sponsored by the UK Press Gazette. The winning articles, in The News, Portsmouth...
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Tribunal delay
An industrial tribunal test case against the Colleges Employers Forum for denying a pay rise to "Silver Book" lecturers has been adjourned for six weeks. Lecturers from Sandwell College are claiming...
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V-cs' pay packages hit six figures
Six-figure pay and pensions packages are becoming commonplace for vice chancellors, a É«ºÐÖ±²¥S survey shows. The survey is based on information disclosed for the first time in the 1993/94 financial...
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Scots FE colleges forced to cut staffing
The threat of compulsory redundancies is looming in Scotland's further education colleges following the latest funding allocations from the Scottish Office Education Department. Falkirk College of...
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LibDems' research plan
The research selectivity exercise should be scrapped and replaced with a new share-the-wealth formula for research funding, suggests Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman. A big...
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Nursing BSc
The University of Abertay Dundee is collaborating with the Royal College of Nursing on a nurse practitioner degree course, the first of its kind in Scotland. The BSc course aims to produce nurses...
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Oxford upgrade
Oxford University dons and senior administrators have backed proposals for a promotions policy that will create hundreds of new professors and readers. A postal ballot of members of the university's...
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Travel loophole
The Scottish Office Education Department is investigating allegations that students are claiming travel expenses fraudulently. Students whose parents live within commuting distance of their college...
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Quickie novel
Luton University politics lecturer Pat Gray this week won the World One Day Novel Cup. Mr Gray wrote his 20,000-word The Political Map of the Heart, which is about his childhood in Belfast, in just...
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Over the hill at 50?
Our Global Neighbourhood: - Utopia Lost:
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a story about explosions and Manhattan: "The preeminent transnational community in our culture is science. With the release of nuclear energy in the first half of...
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Speaking Volumes: The Singer of Tales
Ruth Finnegan on Albert Lord's The Singer of Tales . When I arrived in Oxford my tutor told me to read my classical texts aloud. Being literal-minded, I took her advice. And having read out all those...
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FE COORDINATION Research Project 931 is a Further Education Unit feasibility study on a coordinated or central production and registration system for learning materials in further education colleges...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF É«ºÐÖ±²¥ WEST OF ENGLAND MA: Doris Fiedor, chair of the Hartcliffe Community Council and member of the British Community Health Council, was awarded an honorary degree on February 3. NAPIER...
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Events
NEW YORK, NEW YORK The Hunterian Art Gallery is presenting the only Scottish showing of an exhibition of New York city prints (1880s-1990) from the collection of Reba and Dave Williams. The...