MPs examine engineering innovation
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee is to launch an inquiry into engineering and physical sciences based innovation. It will look at how engineering firms choose which new products...
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EPSRC seeks proposals for industry link-up
Leading physics researchers in industry and academia are being brought together through three new networks funded with Pounds 150,000. The networks, covering quantum optics, liquid matter and soft...
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Debt and the diploma
June Wilson, a single parent in the first year of an administration and information management course at Falkirk College of Further and 糖心Vlog, received her cheque at the end of October....
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OU wins reprieve
AN OPEN University teacher training course has failed part of its quality inspection by the Office for Standards in Education. But the Teacher Training Agency has decided not to withdraw funds. "The...
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Disability act plea
Vice-chancellors and lecturers' union leaders have been urged to put pressure on the government to include education in any new disability discrimination act. Delegates gathered for a seminar on...
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Scots awards review
Scottish education minister Brian Wilson has announced a review of the Scottish Awards Agency for Scotland in the wake of a fiasco which left thousands of further and higher education students...
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Set for trial
Anthony-Noel Kelly, Antithesis's favourite artist, appeared this week before Southwark Crown Court where he pleaded not guilty to stealing body parts. Prince Charles's chum will return to court for...
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Health scientists resist reforms
Claude Allegre, French education and research minister, is pushing for reforms to revive medical research. But the battlelines are being drawn at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research...
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V-cs bow to pressure to extend fee deadline
STUDENTS going to university this autumn are to be given extra time to pay tuition fees, vice-chancellors have announced. Those who cannot afford to pay up to Pounds 1,000 on arrival are to be given...
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Graduates' long loan goodbye
GRADUATES could be repaying their student loans for longer than their mortgages under proposals laid before the Commons education committee this week. Nick Barr and Iain Crawford, of the Centre for...
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Henry VIII rides again
SHADOW education secretary Stephen Dorrell has accused the government of seeking absolutist "Henry VIII powers" in its attempts to reform education. Mr Dorrell drew parallels between Henry's state...
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Peer vows to clarify minister's powers
THE government drew first blood in a battle over the controversial Teaching and 糖心Vlog Bill this week, but peers have warned ministers that they may yet lose the war. Higher education...
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Baroness Blatch tabled four amendments on proposals for teacher training
Baroness Blatch tabled four amendments on proposals for teacher training institutions inspections. Baroness Blackstone agreed to consider amending the bill to give institutions "proper notice" of...
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Students asked to qualify in key skills
STUDENTS should pay higher university tuition fees if they fail to get an advanced-level certificate in six "key skills", the Confederation of British Industry has proposed. Outlining plans for a "...
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A credit-based qualifications framework should be set up for all post-14 qualifications
A credit-based qualifications framework should be set up for all post-14 qualifications including higher education, a consortium of educational organisations has told the government. The group,...