CUC urges openness in new universities
New universities are being urged to find ways to promote openness in their governing bodies that offer opportunities for wider scrutiny similar to those of the old universities' court system, writes...
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Granite city picks up top awards in report debut
Aberdeen College swept the board this week in the first Further Education Annual Report Awards, winning Best Design Category and Best Overall Report Award. Hammersmith and West London College and...
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Performance pay finally hits the rocks
Cheltenham and Gloucester Institute of 糖心Vlog is to pay a part-time lecturer more than Pounds l,800 in compensation following complaints that its performance-related pay scheme was...
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Stoned Rose
(Photograph) - Stoned Rose: This elegantly elongated rouge chemise wowed the audience at a recent graduate fashion show in London. Designed by Primal Scream fan Rebecca Whitehead, a fashion design...
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Doctors in demand
Peter Richards, chairman of the council of deans of United Kingdom medical schools, has welcomed health minister Virginia Bottomley's commitment to increasing student intakes by 10 per cent over the...
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TEC-nical detail
The Further Education Funding Council has today published a guide advising colleges and Training and Enterprise Councils how to work together. The Employment Department is currently sponsoring a...
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Flying times
Universities are being invited by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to bid for up to six research chairs for research into innovative manufacturing in four sectors: aerospace,...
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Student handouts
The Department for Education plans to spend Pounds 2,095 million on mandatory awards and Pounds 644 million on student loans in the 1995/96 academic year, according to a written answer in Hansard...
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It shouldn't happen
Veterinary schools have failed in all but one case to win money earmarked by the Wellcome Trust to develop centres of research excellence in veterinary medicine. The failure illustrates a weakness of...
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Welsh resist English takeover
Plans for a single quality assurance body drawn up by the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England came in for fresh criticism this week - from the council's sister quango in Wales. The Higher...
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Hull fears merger exodus
The merger of Humberside University and the University of Lincolnshire has alarmed parts of the community in Hull who fear an exodus resulting in a loss of prestige, jobs and investment from the city...
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Chair quits in model code row
The chairman and vice chairman of governors of one of the country's largest further education colleges have resigned in protest at the "watering down" of a model code of practice for governors. They...
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Axe lifted from labs
The Government is about to drop radical proposals to reorganise research council institutes geographically and create managers responsible for cutting public laboratories. The U-turn features in a...
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Wee colleges feel pressure to merge
The Scottish 糖心Vlog Funding Council's latest allocations have come under attack for putting disproportionate pressure on smaller colleges. At St Andrew's College, Scotland's national Roman...
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New horizons
(Photograph) - New horizons: Sir Arnold Wolfendale, former astronomer royal, opens the Alston Observatory at the University of Central Lancashire. The site, which has been redeveloped, contains the...