European funding probed
The Government has launched an investigation into an English higher education institution's claims for European funding. Secrecy surrounds the inquiry by the Department for Education and Employment's...
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Only here for the cheap beer
Growing student debt is pulling in profits for Britain's student unions as hard-up undergraduates flock to campus watering holes for cheaper beer, union managers have claimed. Figures from SUSOC, the...
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Top dogs to get cash for quality bonus
Top-rated universities and colleges are to get an Pounds 8 million boost in the first direct link between teaching quality assessments and funding. The 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England is...
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Scots for auld lang syne
Visitors to Historic Scotland sites this weekend face being quizzed about their views on the Scots language, following a two-year campaign by Aberdeen University students for an official...
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Rectors reject fees for students
German university rectors have overwhelmingly rejected plans to introduce student fees, throwing open the debate over desperately needed reform of higher education funding. Student fees are "not a...
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A virtual dilemma
Mike Fitzgerald ("Polar bores miss multimedia point", THES, July 5) is right to be concerned about the polarisation of views on information technology and education. As a computer specialist, I ought...
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Material girls
(Photograph) - Material girls: Danielle Russell (left) was one of the Bradford and Ilkley Community College fashion students to model clothes used in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice at the...
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Job seekers firm is a hit
The United Kingdom's first student-run scheme to help graduates find work is set for a successful first year, writes Alan Thomson. Westminster Business Consultants Ltd, launched last August at...
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Down under on the up
There is compelling evidence that in the competitive business of attracting overseas students to study in its universities, Australia has "got it right". For example, Australia is the most preferred...
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MPs back scientists
The spiralling cost of Britain's membership of Cern, the Geneva-based particle physics laboratory, caused by fluctuations in the exchange rate, should be borne by the Treasury and not the science...
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Core no more in skills-go-round
Just when educationists think they are getting the hang of the technical vocabulary of vocational qualifications, bureaucrats go and change it all. "Core skills" is to be phased out and replaced by "...
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Schools happy to leave training to institutions
Schools are happy to let higher education continue to play the major role in initial teacher training, a national study has found, writes Tony Tysome. Despite the misgivings of Government agencies...
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Shake-up in Italian jobs
Universities minister Luigi Berlinguer has launched a package of reforms which should result in the most radical revolution in Italian higher education since the second world war. The reforms, if...
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Japanese enjoy their tipples too
Russians dying for a drink" by Zhores Medvedev (THES, July 12) contains a number of inaccurate comparisons making reference to Japan. Japanese living standards are not lower than those of Americans...
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Circling around the Dearing ring
The gradual clarification of Labour's ideas on English regional governance may well provide a context for at least some of the issues which the Dearing committee will need to address. Having spent 25...