Ex-Keele engineer to appear at crown court
Peter Rolfe, former head of Keele University's hospital-based bioengineering and medical physics departments, was this week bailed by Stoke-on-Trent magistrates court to appear at the town's crown...
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Hull prepares for 100 new medical students
Hull University this week unveiled its plans for a medical school for mature students which could be up and running by 2001. The plan, put forward as part of the government's call for universities to...
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Tuition fee protesters face being sent down
Eight of the 14 Oxford University students who were withholding tuition fees in protest at the end of free higher education backed down in time for this week's payment deadline. Six remaining...
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Strike leaders were unfairly dismissed
Two union leaders were unfairly dismissed by Southwark College, a London employment tribunal has ruled. Andrea Kenneally and David Jenkins, both Natfhe branch officers, were dismissed following a ten...
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Inspectors find college 'less than satisfactory'
Governance and quality assurance at East Yorkshire College of Further Education has been deemed "less than satisfactory" by inspectors. Governance was described as "weak", and the quality of...
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Details of first reliable CJD test revealed
Researchers have developed the first reliable test for new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) that can be used while the patient is still alive. Details are revealed in this week's Lancet. The...
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Disaffected dons join Tory party policy group
Academics opposed to the government's further and higher education policies are being recruited to a Conservative Party liaison group. Around 100 Conservative-supporting academics, including many...
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Hands on
(Photograph) - Hands on: education secretary David Blunkett opened a unique interactive science learning zone at Sheffield Hallam University this week. The Scope (Sciences Centred Opportunities for...
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New credit framework is Scotcat's whiskers
Scottish education minister Helen Liddell has hailed a pioneering new credit and qualifications framework as widening educational opportunities for all and offering access to better jobs. Speaking at...
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Title law could face first test
A higher education college in Liverpool is considering a challenge to new legislation governing use of the title "university" that becomes law in a fortnight's time. Under the rules set out in a...
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Access course growth falters
Demand for higher education continues to falter among adults, despite the government's commitment to lifelong learning, a government adviser on lifelong learning has warned. Recruitment in deprived...
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Lack of qualifications proves no bar to entry
Nine UK higher education institutions accepted at least 10 per cent of students with no recorded qualifications, according to the latest analysis of applications. Figures released on the main...
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Artists key into working-life stress
The Royal College of Art today launches a Pounds 1 million research and development centre on designing for new ways of living, working and travelling. The Helen Hamlyn Research Foundation Centre is...
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Student trust in surveys falters
The widespread practice of asking students to grade the quality of their courses - as a key plank of quality assurance procedures - is often inadequate, with little evidence that the feedback...
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Budding animators asked to watch this White Space
Kingston University is setting up a Pounds 700,000 animation research centre to address a shortage of creative animators in film and television. Called White Space, the centre will also run short...