Figures highlight class imbalance
The drive to widen participation is recovering from the blow it received in 1998, when tuition fees were introduced and maintenance grants were halved, to be abolished the next year. The recovery was...
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The nature of study favours the male
Men get more first-class degrees than women because the academic assessment system discriminates in favour of them, according to research published this week. Jane Mellonby and colleagues in the...
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Kent at Medway doubles enrolments
The University of Kent has established a Medway campus at the Mid-Kent College in Chatham. Mid-Kent College already delivers degree courses validated by the University of Kent. The number of...
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Sector refutes Ofsted's 'vacuous' degree gibe
Ofsted chief inspector Chris Woodhead (pictured) was criticised by vice-chancellors, lecturers' union leaders and graduate recruiters this week for rubbishing "vacuous" degrees such as media studies...
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Daresbury strives to retain research role
Staff at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire have renewed their campaign to secure a future for the centre, which failed in its bid to host the United Kingdom's new synchrotron. Daresbury scientists...
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Health workers offered ILT membership
Registered nurses, midwives and health visitors who qualified with the UK Central Council can now apply for immediate membership of the Institute for Learning and Teaching. The ILT said membership...
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QMUC opens centre for nursing history
Queen Margaret University College aims to improve the prestige of nurses with a UK centre for the history of nursing, the first of its kind in Europe. The collaborative venture between QMUC and the...
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Call for legislation over sexist language
Efforts to establish linguistic rights in Northern Ireland should take account of groups such as women and the deaf community, a language specialist at Queen's University, Belfast, has proposed. John...
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Cairo
Egyptian prosecutors have released on bail some of the staff of a pro-democracy think-tank. The released staff, who have been held for more than a month, include Saad El-Din Ibrahim, head of the Ibn...
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Tromso
Norway's Tromso University and Tromso University College will merge from January 1 2003 if both their governing bodies accept proposals of a joint committee looking at close cooperation between them...
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Aberdeen wins Pounds 500k for cannabis research
Aberdeen University researchers have won more than Pounds 500,000 from the Medical Research Council for work on cannabis-related compounds. The research, led by professor of neuropharmacology Roger...
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King tipped for top science advisory role
Cambridge University chemist David King has been offered the post of chief scientific adviser to the government. Professor King, head of the department of chemistry and master of Downing College, was...
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Report gives thumbs-up to therapeutic cloning
The research councils are to be encouraged to consider establishing collections of human stem cells for research after the Donaldson report recommended the government permit therapeutic cloning....
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The 'Real Keele' is just a mouse click away
The sights and, perhaps more intriguingly, the sounds of campus life can now be experienced in the comfort of the home courtesy of Keele University. A clearing website launched this week offers...
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Gap-year graduates have skills to succeed
Graduates lack initiative and communication skills when they leave university, according to a survey of employer attitudes conducted by the national charity Community Service Volunteers -a main...