Five-term year for school proposed
* A move from a three to five-term year for schools is being considered by a Local Government Association commission launched this week. The proposal would reduce the summer break to four weeks and...
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New Deal colleges double their money
* Colleges will get double the money for educating people on the New Deal from this week, the government has announced. Further education colleges will receive 20 per cent of the cost of every New...
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Projects win grants for equipment
* Details of nearly Pounds 70 million funding for research were announced this week. Under the 1999 round of the Joint Research Equipment Initiative, 230 awards have been made to projects in 53...
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Four quit at Glasgow education faculty
* Sir Graeme Davies, principal of Glasgow University, has given four senior education staff until Monday to reconsider their resignations. The four tendered their resignations following growing...
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Plea for thief to return yellow plastic banner
* No longer content with the timeless but passe student pastime of stealing traffic cones and road signs, mischievous undergraduates at Liverpool John Moores University have gone a step too far. "In...
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Loan numbers double
The percentage of eligible sutdents who took a student loan has more than doubled since their introduction. In 1990-91, some 28 per cent of those eligible took a loan. By 1997-98, the figure had...
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Preventive action - or legal conflict
Institutions must ensure that they are not hit by new laws governing human rights and the gathering of data, warns Alison Goddard If one of your students owes the university money, what do you do?...
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Researchers need more clarity on data act
The Data Protection Act could ban certain types of research in the social sciences. Research involving processing sensitive personal data could be halted. For example, if researchers wanted to follow...
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Mistaken identity
The Times Higher Millennium Magazine was a magnificent effort (THES, December 24/31, 1999). I enjoyed the articles and found the chronologies very useful. May I draw your attention to an error in the...
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Churchill's defence
I was very concerned to read a letter ("Imperial versus imperious", THES, December 24/31, 1999) from Nick Huismans critical of admissions procedures at Churchill College and the interview I had with...
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Critical minds draw short straw
I am extremely worried that the government is introducing short degrees ("Short degrees welcomed", THES, January 7) as I believe that it will lead to an erosion of standards and, more importantly, to...
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Critical minds draw short straw
The view that the American model could be adopted when the associate degree is introduced in England and Wales is controversial ("New Labour, new year, new degree", THES, December 10 1999). The...
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Bees in a bonnet
Jean Aitchison's review ("Getting back to nature-nurture", THES, January 7) dismisses Geoffrey Sampson's argument about whether language is biologically in-built, but for all the wrong reasons. She...
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Case for PC plodders
The process of extending access to higher education to categories of people who have been under-represented creates a situation in which those who have been excluded hitherto are confronted with...
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Supermen v asteroids
The three-man taskforce appointed to assess the potential danger to the earth from asteroid strikes has an important job to do. But to headline the news item "Team picked to save Earth from asteroids...