Welsh funding gap grows
Welsh universities and colleges will receive a real-terms increase of less than 1 per cent next year, threatening to cast them further adrift from their English and Scottish counterparts. The 0.85...
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Threats over 'horse trade' in academics
Swansea University academics have threatened action over plans to transfer them to Swansea Institute as part of the push to "reconfigure" Welsh higher education, writes Tony Tysome. The university...
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Clarke opens play at Greenwich labs
Education secretary Charles Clarke this week opened a £4 million complex of laboratories at the University of Greenwich, Medway. The facilities include laboratories for sports science, materials...
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Students fear contract change will weaken school's status
Russian-language students and graduates from University College London's School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies are demanding that plans to change the status of two lecturers should be...
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Leicester gets £250K to train NHS managers
A consortium led by Leicester Medical School is hoping to help reshape the National Health Service after winning £250,000 to train the next generation of health education managers. Project leader...
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