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* Cambridge University is considering plans for compulsory staff training in equal opportunities to tackle the dramatic under-representation of women. Only 6.4 per cent of Cambridge professors and 10...
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Market forces keep them away
SCOTLAND Alan Thomson and Alison Goddard dissect the early application statistics The picture for Scotland from the latest Universities and Colleges Admissions Service figures is still murky, and...
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Market forces keep them away
OVERSEAS Global economic problems look likely to continue to hit British higher education financially in the new academic year according to the latest UCAS figures, which show a fifth fewer overseas...
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Market forces keep them away
HND Government plans to promote sub-degree qualifications could be undermined if the latest applications slump is due to people refusing to pay up to Pounds 1,000 for anything less than a fully...
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Inspectors find weakest teaching links
Concern over the quality of teaching, learning and assessment in higher education is expressed in a forthcoming Quality Assurance Agency report, which will also reveal serious weaknesses in...
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North delights in bumper bonus to lure students
The Northwest, Yorkshire and Humberside and the West Midlands have won the lion's share of the extra cash to widen participation in higher education. The regions grabbed 42 per cent of the Pounds 1.5...
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Blunkett title ruling baffles principals
Higher education college heads reacted with anger and confusion this week to news that a further education college is to be allowed to use the university college title. Education secretary David...
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EC directive endangers learning
University library bodies across the European Union have criticised the European Parliament for passing copyright laws that threaten to "make life extremely difficult" for lecturers, researchers and...
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Halls of residence may slip through licence net
University halls of residence may escape stringent rules outlawing substandard rented accommodation. The proposals, which call for a mandatory national scheme to license privately owned, multiple-...
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Lucky link to frog revival
A researcher at Coventry University is championing the British ancestry of an extinct frog. Chris Gleed-Owen's research will determine whether the pool frog was officially Britain's seventh species...
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Microchip charge may identify diseases
Viruses such as herpes and HIV and diseases caused by parasites, such as malaria, could soon be detectable by a microchip much more quickly than by existing methods of diagnosis. A team at the...
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Twins offer clue to a pain in the neck
Back pain may have less to do with the job you do and the way you sit than the genes you inherit, research suggests. Tim Spector, director of the twin research unit at St Thomas's Hospital in London...
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Universal truth could lie in asymmetry
Particle physicists have found a clue as to why the universe is made of matter rather than antimatter. Researchers at the Fermi National Laboratory near Chicago have seen what they think is a slight...
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Institutional reaction: 'We are not concerned by the 11 per cent drop - on the contrary we are pleased'
Institutions doing very well or very badly in the applications battle were asked for their comments. Steve Kendall, head of admissions at Luton University, where applications are down by 23 per cent...
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Treasure hunters discover net
Selling off rare books and works of art has always been a tempting option for universities short of cash. In the 17th century Oxford's Bodleian library sold off many supposed duplicates including the...