Traveller's son shows way
Bangor University's new students' union president Andrew Wilson can attest to the value of widening participation. The 22-year-old son of a former traveller is an "untraditional" recruit who is...
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Whistleblowers: Oxford reviews statutes after exclusion inquiry
Oxford University is to review its disciplinary procedures after an inquiry into the "distressing and humiliating" ejection of an international scholar from university premises, set up after...
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Who supports Man. united?
Alison Utley reports on plans for a super-university and a refashioned Northumbria. Britain's first super-university came a step closer this week as the University of Manchester and the University of...
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Critic offers Oxford his latest work of friction
One of Oxford University's most vocal critics has opened a bookshop and gallery in the heart of the dreaming spires as a focal point for dissent and attacks on the institution's establishment. Andrew...
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Ashamed French resist Le Pen
Thousands of university and lycée students protested at the unexpected success of the far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen in reaching the second round of the French presidential election this week...
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£1.5m for Bath v-c's pad rings alarm bells
Bath University staff and students are worried that spending on academic facilities is at risk after the university spent more than £1.5 million on a house in a Georgian crescent for the new vice-...
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'Invest or perish,' Dearing warns
Lord Dearing, author of the 1997 report on higher education, has warned chancellor Gordon Brown that he must invest more in education or risk long-term economic failure. Lord Dearing told the House...
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Sfefc puts brake on FE growth
Scotland is to wind down the recent dramatic expansion of its further education sector. The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has set colleges' funding package for 2002-03 at £414 million,...
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Chennai
Visas for students from southern India wishing to study in Britain have trebled in the past four years to 3,000 in 2001, according to the British High Commission. An estimated 7,000 Indian students...
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Moscow
Lyudmila Putina, the wife of the Russian president, has condemned proposals by the Russian Academy of Sciences to reform the Russian language. She said the emphasis should be on "maintaining and...
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French need boost in student numbers
France needs thousands more school-leavers a year to qualify for university places to fulfil the needs of higher education and the job market, according to a report delivered last week to education...
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Russia to reform science funding
Russia's first major shake-up in scientific funding and focus for nearly 30 years could transform the image of research institutes as the crumbling casualties of communism's collapse. A policy...
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FP6 to target priority subjects
The European Commission has admitted that the Sixth Framework Programme for research will be tailored to a limited number of priority subjects. It is expecting to receive 95 per cent fewer...
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Axed Kenyans sue
Three Kenyan universities are being sued by more than 800 former employees who were laid off two years ago in a staff reduction programme ordered by the government. The 814 administrative, semi-...
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'Speed up degrees,' senator demands
US senator and former vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman has called on American universities to make sure students - particularly low-income minorities - graduate on time. To help achieve...