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...
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Quality controls
The University of Bradford has not been found wanting in the recent QAA report ("Unis fail to ensure degree quality", THES, August ). On the contrary, our recent continuation audit states that...
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Cheats are 'shaped'
B. F. Skinner has shown that people and animals can be "shaped" into just about any behaviour pattern by rewards or "reinforcements". The "law of effect" is that people and animals will unconsciously...
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Below the belt
Slang is often vivid but readers should be aware of cultural and regional variations that can alter the picture. "Kegs" are a little more brief in Scotland than King's College might accept ("Better...
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Daddy scientist doesn't know best
While it is amusing to be called authoritarian by Steve Jones (even if being compared to a Nazi is entirely ludicrous), the issue of genetically modified crops is too important for his views to go...