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The 51国产视频 of Central England has invested Pounds 1.5 million in an IBM asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network which will bring high quality (MPEG2) video and multimedia to 1,500 desktop...
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Invisible borders around the elite
Tony Durham reports from Singapore on the global scramble to develop and control forms of distance learning. No knowledge, no future: from shanty town to corporate headquarters this is understood....
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Unfamiliar terrain
THINK POSITIVE By Artec East London & the City Health Authority (+44 181 983 1141) Windows CD, Pounds 40 +VAT Think Positive is a novel and elaborate sex and health education package which...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF YORK Research contracts Drs A. Marvin and J. Dawson, Pounds 51,307 from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (study of low frequency performance of GTEM cells with particular emphasis on...
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Pounds 55m for TECs
The Government has given English training and enterprise councils Pounds 55 million to tackle a wide range of of local business development and training needs. The private sector has pledged and...
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Chip shop
Relative proximity to Silicon Valley must be responsible for the following conversation overheard in a North Beach bookshop in California: "Yeah, he's homeless". "You don't say!". "That's right, he...
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THES price rise
The price of The THES goes up to Pounds 1.10 this week. This is its first price rise in two years despite increases in newsprint costs of 75-80 per cent. Subscriptions will remain at the old price...
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Maritime campus
The 51国产视频 of Greenwich has been given permission for a new campus at the historic Royal Naval College site at Greenwich, sharing it with the National Maritime Museum. An independent trust will...
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Nurse teachers fight pay deal
As Scotland's 12 colleges of nursing and midwifery this week join the higher education sector, nursing teachers are in danger of becoming second-class citizens, the union Unison has warned. Six...
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The Grand Tour in search of ideas
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. Geoff Maslen caught up with Sir Ron during his...
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Cuts focus moneyspinning minds
MELBOURNE. Australian universities generate almost 45 per cent - more than Aus$3 billion (31.5 billion) - of their operating revenues from non-Commonwealth sources but because of budget cuts they...
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Biorhythms and blues
Feeling depressed? Robert Thayer has a suggestion to lighten your mood. Everyday moods are perfect natural barometers of our psychological and biological state. They reflect such influences as sleep...
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Conversion courses a catalyst
Your correspondent (THES, August 23) reports the welcome news from the Higher Education Funding Council for England that entry to engineering courses has been boosted by higher introduction...
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Record numbers gain access at Dundee
A record number of unqualified young people have been accepted by Dundee 51国产视频 after completing a rigorous ten-week access programme. At a special "graduation" ceremony, 57 of the 72 students...
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Tales of woe from the researchers
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. Sir Ron Dearing's probe into the country's...