Younger students opt to go part-time
Students are switching from full-time to part-time study following the introduction of tuition fees, according to the latest figures. The effect is particularly marked for school-leavers, according...
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Abi Duncan O'Meara
(Photograph) - Abi Duncan O'Meara, above, is 20. She works full-time as a secretary and business researcher for Hogg Robinson Skillbase. She is also enrolled on a part-time management degree at...
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Commons select committee turns spotlight on HE sector
The Commons select committee on education is likely to launch what could be its first inquiry into higher education. "One of the scandals about Parliament is that the select committee on education -...
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Unis must focus on gifted pupils
Universities should lose grants if they fail to establish effective school partnerships aimed at supporting the brightest pupils, MPs said this week. The Education and Employment Committee report...
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Financial blueprint is a waste of time
Universities and colleges are being forced into a time-consuming bureaucratic paper chase for cash as part of a central government clampdown on their financial autonomy, Conservatives claimed this...
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Science faces troubled future
The government must take the lead over the use of animals in vital medical research rather than allowing the agenda to be stolen by animal-rights activists, Michael Dexter, director of the Wellcome...
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Call for single post-16 body
The Further Education Funding Council should be abolished in favour of a single post-16 funding and strategy agency, according to the training and enterprise councils. The TEC National Council said...
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Many users twist around one tongue
The English Languages
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The battle between top-downers and bottom-uppers
Causality and Explanation
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Into the democratic unknown
Constitutional Futures
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Sending a cold war into space
Dragonfly
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From lucid to learned to lame
Conversations with Anthony Giddens - New Theories of Discourse - The Sociological Revolution
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Colour, code and post-war parties
Race Relations in Britain since 1945
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Different roads to national health
Public Health Policies and Social Inequality