Academics win access to data goldmine
MELBOURNE Australia's vice-chancellors have negotiated a unique agreement with the Australian Bureau of Statistics that will give academic researchers electronic access to a vast quantity of the...
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Scots parties play fees card
Scottish students could see an end to tuition fees under the Scottish Parliament. The parliament's devolved powers include higher education funding, and tuition fees are emerging as a major political...
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Learning accounts ready to operate
The first million individual learning accounts, set up to tempt people back into learning, will become operational from next Thursday. Each account-holder will receive Pounds 150 from the state to...
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A real screen saver
Chris Duckenfield describes how his university is bucking the UStrend of making cash-strapped students invest in laptops College costs in the United States are high, and plenty of people like it that...
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Revamp is Rebirth
(Photograph) - Tim Brook, Boris Muller and Marcus Gosling, postgraduate students at the Royal College of Art, London, used Macromedia Director to create Revamp, a program that lets a group of people...
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Software vendor switch 'could save Pounds 10m'
Universities and colleges could save about Pounds 10 million a year by switching from Microsoft desktop applications to cheaper alternatives, according to a report published today. Annual savings for...
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The commission's loss could be the UK's gain
Ther demise of the EC could help Britain towards its higher education goals, argues Juliet Lodge The European Commission's resignation was greeted in some quarters as a gleeful proclamation of the...
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Serb academia merits support despite regime
As the Kosovo crisis slips from diplomacy to war, it is hard to feel any sympathy for Serbs. So it was supremely bad timing that brought three University of Belgrade academics to London last week to...
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A touch too much
Roger King is wrong to think that to devise a credible standard for teachers in higher education, a balance must be struck "between proper rigour and a reasonably light touch" ("Institute of Learning...
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Darwinian disputes
Gabby Dover's polemic against the Darwinism Today lecture series, including my book Divided Labours ("Darwinian devolution", THES, February 26), is so thoroughly misleading that readers deserve to be...
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Counting up drop-outs
Your front-page story and editorial about student non-completion rates (THES, March 19) were helpful in putting the issue in an international context by showing that drop-out rates in this country...
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Northeast partnership aims to improve region
The five universities of the Northeast will today sign a collaborative venture to improve job prospects and quality of life in the region. The universities of Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria,...
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Number of under-25s joining OU trebles
The number of young people enrolled on an Open University course leading to a degree or postgraduate qualification has almost trebled in the past four years. Figures released last week by the OU show...
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End of vocational tax relief criticised
Alan Tuckett (above), chief executive of the National Institute for Adult Continuing Education, has criticised chancellor Gordon Brown's decision to phase out vocational tax relief, which lets people...
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Seven crowned with university college title
Surrey Institute of Art and Design has been given consent by the Privy Council to use the university college title. Six other higher education colleges gained the title: Buckinghamshire Chilterns...