Foresight's six of the best
Six "strategic themes" have been identified by the Foresight steering group as offering opportunities and technologies likely to emerge in the next ten to 20 years. These are: materials; genetic...
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Degree level for third of workers
The Government has called on universities and colleges to help achieve the higher level national education and training targets unveiled this week. It wants at least 30 per cent of the workforce to...
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Kickstart for small business
Small firms are to be the main beneficiaries of a host of measures to boost the competitiveness of British industry. They will get the lion's share of Pounds 200 million, of which Pounds 125 million...
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Stewart urges togetherness
Big changes in the type of research supported by the higher education funding councils could be on the cards following this week's publication of the Foresight implementation report by the Office of...
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AUT accepts 2.7 per cent
University lecturers have accepted a 2.7 per cent pay rise and claimed victory in their campaign against sweeping changes to their salary structure. David Triesman, general secretary of the...
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Merger closer
The private Bill to merge St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College with the Royal London Hospital and Queen Mary and Westfield Colleges has passed its committee stage in the Commons despite...
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Making history
Colin Lucas, master of Balliol College, will be vice chancellor of the University of Oxford for four years from October 1, 1997. An historian, he has published widely on the French Revolution and...
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Child videos
The results of a -month investigation into the effectiveness of videotaping children's evidence to court, allowed for the first time by the 1991 Criminal Justice Act, will be presented today by a...
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Pensions claimed
The AUT this week urged part-time lecturers in the old universities to lodge claims for retrospective pensions rights by May 3l. This follows a Government amendment to the l993 Pensions Act which now...
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Study reveals marks vary from subject to subject
Students of fine art and sociology are likely to have higher average marks than students of law, a study of modular schemes in six universities has found. It also found the spread of marks was...
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Top-up tuition fees are divisive, staff groups argue
Staff have ruled out top-up tuition fees as a funding solution for higher education, the Association of University Teachers summer council heard last week. "Top-up fees were seen as the most socially...
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Natfhe strikes ahead
Lecturers' union Natfhe has pledged more industrial action as it seeks local agreements at further education colleges after the breakdown of national contracts talks. The union refused a last-minute...
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New university scrapped
Plans for an independent University of Lincolnshire have been scrapped after a struggle for academic control. The University of Humberside has wrested power from rival bidder Nottingham Trent...
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Loans bite
The British Dental Association has joined the campaign urging the Government to increase student loans to medical, dental and veterinary students. Katy Clarke, association student liaison officer,...
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On the Internet
Teaching quality assessments made by the Welsh and Scottish higher education funding councils will be on our Internet service today together with the results of the 1992 research assessment exercise...