Loans extended
Career development loans, worth up to Pounds 8,000, are to be extended to three years to provide wider opportunities for more students, particularly on sandwich courses, James Paice, the education...
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Flat rate
Edinburgh University has made a special offer over the graduation period for family and friends of the graduands to rent its self-catering flats at a reduced rate. This, it says, will give parents a...
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TECs' top ten
Britain's 81 Training and Enterprise Councils, meeting this week at their national conference in Birmingham, have put out two consulation papers on lifetime learning and training between 14 and 24 -...
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Old take better snapshots than new
Last Friday was the deadline for English universities to file financial forecasts with the funding council. Not all met the deadline. With a cash crisis looming, THES reporters look at the sums and...
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Poor performance
If London Guildhall's football fans are depressed, one shudders to contemplate the likely collective state of mind of Walsall College of Art and Technology's working party on Performance Indicators...
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Henley to drop Bac
Henley College, one of the few public sector institutions offering the International Baccalaureate, is planning to phase the option out. Graham Phillips, principal of the Oxfordshire tertiary college...
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Court boost for crime gene idea
A university researcher has claimed victory for his theory that criminal behaviour is due to a genetic disorder after an Australian appeal court quashed a custodial sentence on a 15-year-old girl....
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Talent loss in medicine
The Medical Research Council has, as a result of Government funding restrictions, withdrawn all funding next year for medical and dental students doing an intercalated BSc (a year's degree course...
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Nations in need of study
An international group of senior academics and education professionals has said that awareness and understanding of the Commonwealth is "truly appalling". After a long, hard look at the state of...
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Storm hits Swansea boss
The future of Gerald Stockdale as principal of Swansea Institute of 糖心Vlog is in doubt this week following the resignation of two prominent governors. The resignations come in the wake of a...
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Academic medics plea for wage parity
University employers have appealed to the prime minister to intervene to safeguard the pay of clinical academics. Philip Love, chairman of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association and of...
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Who guards the coffers?
Last Friday was the deadline for English universities to file financial forecasts with the funding council. Not all met the deadline. With a cash crisis looming, THES reporters look at the sums and...
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Report attacks Queen's
Queen's University, Belfast has been accused of settling some fair employment cases out of court, without admitting liability, to safeguard its image, writes Noel Mcadam. In addition to the charge of...
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India tries to prevent invasion of campuses
Foreign universities seeking students in India will have to put up with tougher entry rules, the University Grants Commission has announced. It is preparing a set of guidelines to ensure that only "...
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How to misread feeling bad or good
I am sure there is more to Peter Robinson's study of job insecurity than is reported in your article ("Feel-bad folly", THES, June 21) but the fact that people moved between jobs almost as much in...