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All best wishes to dismissed student loan chief Ronald Harrison in his new career in the Scottish catering industry. The good news is that early indications that his new employers are not following...
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All dressed up with nowhere to go
(Photograph) - All dressed up with nowhere to go: Opera students Emma Turnbull and Douglas Telfer from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, in costume for Le Mariage aux...
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Bar School unveils fees hike
The Bar School has announced a 30 per cent increase in fees for its 1995/96 vocational course as it prepares to lose its training monopoly. The move is likely to plunge the school into further...
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Double blow for teacher trainers
Teacher training heads say the funding system brought in by the new Teacher Training Agency will hit them with a "double whammy". Allocations announced last month have been based on so-called "...
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Internet text
The National Commission on Education report, Learning to Succeed - After 16, reported in this week's Further Education Synthesis, page iv, is available in full via The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S Internet Service. It can...
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Making friends
Ian Lang, Secretary of State for Scotland, this week launched an initiative aimed at building stronger links between industry, colleges and schools and encouraging young people into manufacturing...
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GPs lured to research
General practitioners should be enticed into academic research by means of "distinction awards" given to those who reach a senior level, according to the higher education funding councils and the...
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Stronger Link
An Pounds 8 million research programme on biological catalysts, less red tape in processing bids for funds and a board to oversee schemes are among the key features unveiled this week by the...
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Political scientists getting younger
Political scientists are getting younger and more women are entering the profession, but short-term contracts are continuing to gain ground. These trends emerge clearly from the latest survey of the...
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Dolly doldrums
(Photograph) - Dolly doldrums: a mysterious disease afflicting collectors' valuable dolls made in the 1940s and 1950s, which made them buckle, bloat and build up a brown sticky liquid, has been cured...
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Buffer demand
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council or a similar buffer body should still continue under a Scottish parliament, according to the Association of University Teachers Scotland. Its submission...
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Schools join in
Tim Boswell, further and higher education minister, said this week that schools as well as universities and colleges will be able to bid for money under the European Union's new Socrates programme...
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Postgraduates lose state bursaries
Nine prestigious professional postgraduate courses have been deprived of their quota of state bursaries in a move which could signal the end of direct Government support of top-level vocational...
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Sacked loan chief going to court
Ronald Harrison, fired this week as chief executive of the Student Loans Company, has announced through his lawyers that he will fight the dismissal through the courts. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of...
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Light as air
(Photograph) - Light as air: a team from the University of Kent at Canterbury is restaging Blaise Pascal's original experiment demonstrating atmospheric pressure as part of the National Week of...