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Teachers' hours should be cut Teachers should spend less time in the classroom, a report by government-appointed consultants PriceWaterhouseCoopers suggests. It is recommended that average teaching...
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Ageing research boost
More than 300 scientists will gather at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham on Monday to celebrate Britain's first major interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle the issues associated with...
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Survey shows barriers blocking keen pupils
Many school and college leavers with ambitions to progress to higher education continue to run into unnecessary barriers, a survey has found. Inadequate financial support, bureaucracy and confusion...
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QAA set to float new ranking hierarchy
Quality inspectors will give every university a ranking based on their stewardship of academic standards and course quality, according to latest confidential plans for a new quality assurance regime...
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Scots told to favour training on the job
Alan Sinclair, senior director of the national development agency Scottish Enterprise, has condemned a widespread "snobbish mentality" that values only degrees or, at a stretch, higher national...
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Claims for loan tested
A test case in the High Court will decide whether students from other European Union countries are entitled to student loans in the United Kingdom. A claim against the London Borough of Ealing by a...
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Bitchy hardsell turns off pupils
Universities should stop criticising each other if they want to attract students, according to a survey of more than 10,500 students who applied for entry in autumn 2001. "I changed my mind about my...
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Leicester hellraisers cautioned
Noisy undergraduates are causing sleepless nights for university chiefs and residents alike in Leicester. Householders in the west end of the city - an area popular with De Montfort University...
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Bristol college fails QAA teaching inspection
Soundwell College in Bristol has become the first institution of the millennium to fail a Quality Assurance Agency teaching inspection. Two other further education colleges have been ordered by the...
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No UK funds for pioneer telescope
Telescope technology that allowed Cambridge University astronomers to take sharper pictures than the Hubble space telescope has failed to attract the British funding needed for its next step. Foreign...
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Graduate tax widely opposed
Government plans to consider a graduate tax as part of a review of university funding and student support have been condemned by leading higher education figures. Delegates at a conference on higher...
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Whistleblowers: Settlement in 'race row'
The London Institute has paid a five-figure sum to former student Brian Moore following a THES investigation that found he was unfairly excluded from his degree course after raising the alarm about...
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Union bars fail to pull punters
London's student union bars may be on the brink of extinction as competing pub chains slash prices and poverty-stricken students socialise less. The rise of student-targeted pubs such as the It's A...
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GA degree backed by kite mark
New "graduate apprenticeships" are to be kite-marked by universities backing vocational training in higher education. The move by 13 institutions represented on the University Vocational Awards...