Oxford state offers drop
Oxford University awarded 51.7 per cent of places to applicants from state schools this year, compared with 54.3 per cent last year. Jane Minto, director of the Oxford Colleges Admissions Office,...
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Libyan partnership
The British Council has signed a cultural agreement with Libya. The placement service agreement is expected to bring a "huge increase" in the number of Libyans studying at UK universities and...
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Kingston to move to des res location
Expansion plans at two institutions contrast with gloom at another Kingston University is planning to move into a prestigious local landmark building as part of a reshaping and expansion initiative....
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£300m plan launched
Leicester University has unveiled a £300 million, 30-year expansion plan and has appointed a businessman to lead its fundraising. Nicholas Corah, whose clothing manufacturing company once employed...
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Redundancy drive aims to free up cash at Luton
Luton University is encouraging high-paid senior academics to volunteer for redundancy as it attempts to free cash for restructuring. It is thought that as many as 50 older staff holding senior...
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New year honours
Controversy... This year's new year honours list has been dogged by more controversy than ever, with mounting pressure on the government to open up the secretive process under which worthy recipients...
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Watergate? 'Not a problem for Nixon'
Documents released this week by the National Archives under the 30-year rule offer a characteristic mixture of the eerily contemporary, the hilarious in hindsight and echoes of a completely different...
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Catholic bias mooted
Positive discrimination was mooted by the Scottish Office in 1973 amid fears that the supply of Catholic trainee teachers could dry up, according to Scottish papers released this week under the 30-...
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Distant voices pipe up
The cost of provision for Scots islanders is under scrutiny. Peter Urpeth reports The graduation ceremony on the bleakly beautiful island of Barra, at the southerly tip of the Outer Hebrides, was a...
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Daycare for all - are you kidding?
Good and affordable childcare is vital to students who are parents the world over. How seriously the issue is taken depends greatly on social and cultural values. Some countries are stepping up...
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Senate slates insolvency law
A Canadian senate committee has found that a ban on bankruptcy for ten years after graduation is unfair to insolvent graduates faced with repaying their student loans. The committee, which is...
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Australian graduates leap onto job ladder
Australian graduates are securing high rates of employment in jobs paying good wages. A survey of almost 110,000 students who graduated at the end of 2002 found that more than 90 per cent had found...
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Protests stall Tetovo bill
A bill to legalise Macedonia's Albanian-language Tetovo University has been put on hold at the last minute after demonstrations by the Slav majority. The government feared that the escalating row...
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Copenhagen
Denmark's science ministry has upheld an appeal by Bj?rn Lomborg, director of the Institute for Environmental Assessment, against a ruling that his book, The Sceptical Environmentalist: Measuring the...
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Colombo
Devapriya Seneviratne Epitawatte, vice-chancellor of Sri Jayawardhanapura University, has been sacked by Sri Lankan president Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga after the launch of a death fast by a...