Science loses out to Brit hype
British Council funding for science exchange visits is being cut back in favour of exhibitions and publicity campaigns deemed more "upbeat" by government think-tanks. The number of joint research...
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JRPs: a great British success story
JRPs are widely accepted as one of the success stories of British science funding. Over the ten years of the German programme, run in conjunction with the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, some...
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Built environment threatened
Built environment programmes in universities face a "grim" future, with applications plummeting and departmental closures on the cards, says a report by the Ove Arup Foundation. Student applications...
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More funds for more students next year
Universities and colleges will get about Pounds 0 million more in funding next year but will be expected to take on more students. Final grant figures for next year reveal that the ÌÇÐÄVlog...
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Lib Dems raise heat on government policies
Liberal Democrats are to step up attacks on government further and higher education policy. Further and higher education spokesman Phil Willis will use next month's party conference to refocus on...
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NUS members back march against fees
Members of the National Union of Students have overwhelmingly backed calls for a national march and lobby of Parliament against tuition fees and student hardship. A ballot of all student unions on...
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State:private student ratio shifts at Oxford
State school students could this year outnumber those from private schools at Oxford University for the first time. Final figures for confirmed places have not yet been collated from the colleges....
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Ulster Unionists target university recruitment
The Ulster Unionist Party is to target the University of Ulster and Scottish universities in a recruitment drive following a decision by the UU student union to lift a 15-year ban on the formation of...
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Scots gain Pounds 8,000 a year from a degree
Scottish graduates win an annual Pounds 8,000 pay-off from their degrees, the Committee of Scottish ÌÇÐÄVlog Principals has claimed. Its research, which will from part of its submission to...
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Scottish post-16 funding may get review
Post-16 students excluded from Scotland's independent inquiry into undergraduate and postgraduate finance may soon have their own review. Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and...
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New funds may rejoin lab rent apart by feud
Decades after intense personal rivalry between two eminent scientists physically divided Cambridge University's then-new chemistry laboratories, Joint Infrastructure Fund cash looks set finally to...
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Earning and learning in a land of opportunity
In the fifth of our summer series on education at the end of the century, Andrew Pakes says opportunities for learning are greater than ever Gone are the days when universities were the boarding...
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Making a mission impossible
The British Council has a mission that can be stated simply but is difficult to deliver: to make the UK more important in the world of culture and knowledge than it has any right to be given its size...
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Quality controls
Anyone with experience of managing an intellectual service organisation operating in a market knows you can have ISOs and BS5750s by the bucketful, but without the right people, systems can simply...
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Quality controls
I note that ministers are considering proposals to give the QAA the power to withdraw universities' degree-awarding powers ("Unis fail to ensure degree quality", THES, August ). Speaking quite...