GCSEs are route to HE expansion
The importance of broadening participation in higher education is not in doubt but how to achieve it is. Alan Thomson reports. Higher education must recruit an extra 400,000 people by 2010 to meet...
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Further education plays crucial role in Scottish recruitment
The Scottish Executive's latest figures for the proportion of young Scots going into higher education show another rise in 1999-2000, from 47.2 per cent to 47.6 per cent. But there is no single...
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50 per cent participation: can the government meet its target?
AUT says schools must fuel growth The Association of University Teachers has estimated that an extra 670,000 student places must be created to reach 50 per cent participation by 2010. This would...
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'Postcode' premium is not enough
Much of the government's effort to expand higher education will focus on demand - increasing the number of people with the qualifications and aspirations to progress beyond school. It recently...
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Whistleblowers
Oxford academics are freed from legal gag The High Court has upheld the freedom of Oxford University academics to criticise a philosopher's controversial book, despite the fact that the university...
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Bullies target popular colleagues
Victims of workplace bullies are often the most popular members of the office, according to research at Hull University. Psychologist Penelope Smith-Lee Chong said her results had come as a surprise...
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Eyeing up a new therapy
Gene therapy, the holy grail of the post-genome era, aims to render drugs and surgery unnecessary, altering the faulty genes in patients' cells by adding replacement strands of DNA. So finding the...
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Seals' footage of fishy activity
A team of American marine biologists has formed an unlikely alliance in its exploration of the dark waters under the frozen Antarctic sea ice. A film crew of 15 Weddell seals, which was initially the...
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MRC praised for financial success
The Medical Research Council is "particularly successful" in building on intellectual property arising from its research institutes, a report has found. Its income stream from such activities grew...
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Scottish students dared to be digital
A leading Scottish entrepreneur has urged students to enter a competition aimed at creating the future stars of Scotland's digital economy. Chris van der Kuyl, 32, president of Vis Entertainment,...
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Anti-Eta activist ousted
An appeal board at one of Spain's largest public universities has downgraded a recently appointed professor after a protest lodged by a colleague once seen as a leading ideologue of the Basque...
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EU may bankroll joint programmes with the Palestinians
The European Union's Tempus programme, set up to aid the transition process in former eastern bloc countries, could be extended to universities in the West Bank and Gaza. Universities in north Africa...
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News in brief
Istanbul Turkey's courts are to decide whether a speech by US linguist Noam Chomsky in the southeastern city of Diyarbakyžr, monitored by local police, broke the law by supporting a Kurdish state and...
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Funding delays cause chaos for researchers
Eight of Spain's scientific bodies have said the system for funding biomedical research is in "chaos", with some projects deprived of expected state support for up to seven months. The associations,...
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Lang tries to flush out racism
France's education minister Jack Lang has set up a commission to investigate racism and revisionism that for years have plagued the University of Lyon-III, Jean-Moulin. The Universities of Lyon-II...