Ex-poly scoops prizes
British business has acclaimed Oxford Brookes University as the most innovative teaching and learning institution in the country. This week it became the first institution to scoop three prizes in...
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Toilet training for rail novices
An engineering student on a placement spent three hours searching through 26 train manuals to find "lavatory seat" - only to discover that the technical term is "hopper cover". His frustrations led...
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Sir Bill's art move
Further education is losing one of its key figures to the art world. Sir William Stubbs, chief executive of the Further Education Funding Council for England, has been appointed as rector of the...
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CBI calls for 'skills passport' boost
Business leaders are backing the idea of a "skills passport" to boost the flagging skills revolution. In a new report, Realising the Vision: A Skills Passport, the Confederation of British Industry...
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Scientists to share in company flotation
An academic unit has launched itself as a company, without venture capital, because it developed its product sufficiently in academia. Scientists in the molecular cell pathology unit at the Royal...
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Lowest-paid get least skills training
Britain's training system is producing a "skills underclass" by reinforcing rather than bridging the skills gap between the high-paid and the low-paid, according to a survey by the Commission on...
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What a catch
(Photograph) - What a catch: Bill Clinton with John Hume, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, at the University of Ulster in Londonderry. The president inaugurated a visiting chair in...
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Lifetime learning paper lacks policy backup
A new learning culture in which individuals and employers take more responsibility for education and training is the vision behind the Government's new Lifetime Learning paper, said education and...
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Queen's first with its peace process triumph
Queen's University, Belfast, has edged ahead in the race with Ulster's other university to capitalise on the momentum of the peace process. Its plans for a massive research and enterprise park in the...
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Nolan says no to more rules
Higher education does not need more external regulation to make it open and accountable, Lord Nolan, chairman of the committee on standards in public life, has concluded, writes Tony Tysome. The...
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RC college in merger
Scotland's national Roman Catholic college of education, St Andrew's, has joined forces with Glasgow University to set up the Glasgow School of Education. The agreement builds on existing...
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Going down
(Photograph) - Going down: physics student Hamied Haroon bungee jumped in a wheelchair from the UMIST students' union in Manchester last week to protest at its lack of a lift. Disabled Mr Haroon had...
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Chris-cross
Lucky Bill Clinton on his visit to Queen's University Belfast last week, got to meet Chris, the university's porter. Chris was first in line to shake hands with the president. In fact, Bill got to...
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Special branch
All the president's men went a branch too far. Secret Service agents ordered the removal of an historic tree which would have obscured their view of the chief for a few seconds. But Queen's refused...
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Pounds 5m threat to food research
The Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is planning cuts of Pounds 5 million in its Pounds 121 million research budget over 1996/97, a move that is likely to lead to job cuts and threaten...