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Education secretary invites employers' input Employers should have more say in the education and training provided by universities and colleges, education secretary Estelle Morris told an employers'...
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Blair hints at tax rise Tony Blair gave his clearest signal yesterday that taxes would have to rise to allow Labour to continue to plough more money into health and education. ( Independent ) Star...
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Russia is to increase spending on fundamental science by Rbl921 million (£22 million), taking the total to R30.3 billion in 2002.
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Former QAA boss issues accountability warning Ex-quality assurance chief John Randall has warned that consumers are demanding accountability from universities after a series of scandals...
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Education 'still failing the poor' British education is still failing to realise the potential of poor children, former prime minister Lord Callaghan said today in an interview with The Guardian to...
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Britain's first "designer baby" will be born by the end of the year. A British couple have side-stepped UK regulations and undergone treatment in the US to ensure they give birth to a baby...
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Soros gives $250m to Budapest institution Financier George Soros has donated $250 million (£175 million) to the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, which he founded ten years ago to...
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Three AUT leadership contenders emerge Three internal contenders have emerged for the vacant general secretary’s job at the Association of University Teachers. They are: Brian Everett, regional...
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Goodwill under grey skies
It's a long way from the Gulf to rainy Leeds but for Omanis at summer school there, the journey proved worthwhile. Rain in Leeds is not an event most visitors would write home about, except when you...
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Staff alarmed about birth of NHS monster
University staff are alarmed by claims that the University of the NHS will be the largest university in the world, with more than 1 million students, a network of campuses and e-learning facilities....
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Annan is peace prize winner Kofi Annan, secretary general of the UN, is winner of this year's Nobel peace prize. Professor refuses to quit over Pentagon 'joke' A University of New Mexico professor...
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Energy research review launched David King, the government’s chief scientific adviser, has launched a review of energy research and development. An open meeting will be held on Monday October 29 at...
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Today's top story The Trinidad-born British author V. S. (sir Vidia) Naipaul yesterday achieved the wildest dream of his iron-willed, sometimes viper-tongued and initially impoverished lifetime by...
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Tories: it's full steam ahead
Conservatives must look forward not back to regain voter support, according to shadow higher education minister Alistair Burt, writes Alan Thomson. Speaking at the Conservative Party conference in...