Artists train to suffer poverty
Higher education and formal training do so little to improve the earning power of artists that there is little economic justification for investing in them, an Arts Council report has concluded....
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Off-the-peg national curriculum
Universities and colleges could soon build their own national curriculum out of off-the-shelf units to be offered to further and higher education. Institutions will be encouraged to join forces with...
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Transgenic key not ready
Methods of breeding transgenic animals are not yet suitable for breeding livestock because of scientists' ignorance of the key genes involved. This message came during the Edinburgh International...
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Training programmes fail to boost earnings
Government training programmes have proved successful in helping the unemployed back to work but have done little to improve their earning power, according to a new study for the Department for...
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Willkommen in the Valleys
Modern language departments at the University of Wales, Swansea, are planning to extend their Welsh-medium teaching of European languages. They are bidding for funding to create a Welsh-medium...
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Nigeria forum
Concern over the human and environmental impact of oil extraction in Nigeria is the focus of a forum next Monday by the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers. The forum follows...
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Queen's praise
Queen's University Belfast will see its budget next year cut by 4 per cent in real terms, a cash cut of 1 per cent. But the university has praised the Department of Education for Northern Ireland and...
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Bio business
A guide to biotechnology was launched by small business minister Richard Page last week. BioGuide includes a summary of biotechnology regulations; research and development grants; a summary of...
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DFEE reviews effect of student loans
The Department for Education and Employment is undertaking the first survey of student income and spending patterns to include details of the effects of loans. Face to face interviews are already...
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Pioneers track galactic evolution
Astrophysicists have crossed one of the final frontiers of understanding the evolution of the universe using an unprecedented amount of computing power, writes Aisling Irwin. The mainly British group...
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Delors reveals lifelong ambition
Universities play a key role in a world strategy for lifelong education drawn up by Jacques Delors, former president of the European Commission, and a 14-person panel commissioned by Unesco to...
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How cheats prosper in exams
The president of the British Psychological Society has lashed out at British university examinations, saying that results give a misleading picture of teaching quality and are often an inadequate...
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By-election tests scholars' bottle
A snapshot of students' political views will emerge today with the results of a by-election where almost every voter is a scholar. Higher education was top of the agenda as party candidates contested...
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Have-nots perform below par
Huge disparities in the wealth of Oxford's colleges are affecting the quality of student learning, it was claimed this week. Students in poorer colleges tend to perform less well in exams than fellow...
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Gareth gathering
Robert Cormack of Queen's University Belfast and Robert Osborne of the University of Ulster, who head the universities' joint centre for research on higher education, are known collectively as The...