Steep rise in foreign students forecast
About a quarter of all students in UK higher education may be from overseas by 2025 - double the current proportion, the British Council has predicted. The change could force institutions to rethink...
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Earth has close shave from large asteroid An asteroid the size of a football pitch and large enough to raze a major city missed the Earth by just 75,000 miles last Friday, a distance considered to be...
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From today's UK papers
Failing colleges could be closed for poor results Weak colleges face closure as part of a crackdown on standards in further education that will be outlined by the government today. Ministers are...
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Ordinary guy with surprise element
When Howard Davies, chairman of the FSA, decided to take up the post of director of the LSE, the City was 'stunned' but, then again, this regular bloke often has that effect, says Terry Philpot...
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Letter: Bribes and grooming
Tom Wilson's objective of "raising the status of teaching" is as admirable an aim as his strategy - support for the Institute for Learning and Teaching - is obtuse (Letters, THES , June 8). His...
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Europeans Say Yes! to a strong Europe in Space
Brussels, 24 June 2003 A four-month consultation on Europe's future in space came to a close in Paris today, with EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin, European Space Agency Director General...
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CBI call to replace 'costly' RAE
Captains of industry have called for a radical overhaul of the research assessment exercise. The RAE's method of assessing and grading departments should be replaced with one that focuses instead on...
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A healthy e-volution
The NHS, the third largest employer in the world, plans to offer all staff, from consultant to porter, online training. Claire Sanders writes. It is a major prize in the e-learning world and three as...
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Unions square up for strike
Employers were due to improve on a 3.3 per cent pay offer in a crunch meeting with the trade unions as The THES went to press this week. But the expected increased offer is unlikely to be good enough...
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Life Sciences and Biotechnology (consultation paper, adopted)
Brussels, 21 Nov 2002 Elisa Maria DAMIßO (PES, P) Report on the Commission communication on Life sciences and biotechnology - A Strategy for Europe ( COM(2002) - C5-0260/2002 - 2002/2123(COS)) Doc...
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Preparation Research Council, 11 March 2002
Brussels, 7 March 2002 (Andrea Dahmen) The research ministers of the European Union will meet on Monday, 11 March 2002, from 10h00 in Brussels under the presidency of Ana MarÃa Birulés y Bertrán,...
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Time to educate the UK about sustainability
The world summit in August should put sustainability higher up the education sector's agenda, says Sara Parkin. More than a year ago, education was passed over as a theme for August's World Summit on...
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Antibiotics: EUR.3 million to step up EU research on antibiotic resistance
Brussels, 28 November 2003 Today 200 scientists meet in Rome at the EU conference on "The Role of Research in Combating Antibiotic Resistance". It was organised by the European Commission together...
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Antibiotics: EUR.3 million to step up EU research on antibiotic resistance
Brussels, 28 November 2003 Today 200 scientists meet in Rome at the EU conference on "The Role of Research in Combating Antibiotic Resistance". It was organised by the European Commission together...
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Motion calls for Triesman to resign
Activists at the Association of University Teachers have called for the resignation of union general secretary David Triesman after his decision to suspend industrial action. The extent of their fury...