Don't wait, tap the vat for students
Vice chancellors seeking to repair their bank balances by obtaining more money from students (THES, September 20) could productively look in other directions for additional funding. They could direct...
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Indonesia in spotlight
Regular Indonesia watchers have been alternately pleased and appalled at the press coverage of this summer's events in the country: pleased that at last the fourth most populous nation in the world...
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Colleges face rebel swell
Gang rivalry, swearing and joy-riding are spilling from the streets into further education colleges as their student intake expands. Potential flashpoints range from care in the community patients to...
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Welsh college axes 13 academics
Thirteen academics at the University of Wales College Newport have been made compulsorily redundant and will leave on October 7. They were notified of the decision only at the beginning of last week...
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Parties steer safe course on funding
Labour and Conservative conferences are set to take a low-key approach to funding issues. "We're all in the same boat, and nobody wants to rock it." The speaker, as it happens, is a Labour supporter...
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Baby steps are a great success
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Brain centre on cards
Sometimes it seems we cannot enjoy a single idle thought without some neuroscientist probing into the whys and wherefores. They ask vexing questions, such as: what patterns of neural activity...
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Party paupers
(Photograph) - Student demonstrators made their presence felt during McGill University's 175th anniversary celebrations. The 40 students disrupted the 45-minute opening ceremony and confronted McGill...
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Don't wait, tap the vat for students
Might I suggest that graduates enjoy tax-free status to make up for tuition fees and losses in earnings between the minimum school leaving age and graduation. If the Government believes that there is...
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Ignore the party, think new term
The start of the academic year - shudders of apprehension combined with anticipation. Pity the poor admissions people, accommodation officers and print rooms. Registrars who take in too many students...
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Cancer verdict
The Cancer Research Campaign is expected to announce today whether it will stop funding future research at Cambridge University. This follows the university's acceptance of a Pounds 1.6 million...
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Quality regimes face a mismatch
The proposed quality assurance system for teacher training is completely out of step with the idea of a single quality agency for higher education, it was claimed this week. Many universities and...
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Tensions in fees alliance
Vice chancellors and the National Union of Students made clear the strength of the alliance forged in the campaign to defend higher education, as the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals met...
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Bonking Blairite
It probably will not seriously dent Labour's poll lead, but the comrades gathering at Blackpool for the party conference may like to know that alumnus to be proud of No. 68 - Roderick Wright, the...
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Churches not cross at the crossing
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...