Doing quite well by all accounts
Next week, statistics will find some universities failing disadvantaged youngsters. But Diana Warwick argues that existing measures show that HE is performing well The public scrutiny of universities...
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Universities lose out as FE scoops cash
Further education colleges have won the lion's share of post-16 cash in a funding battle that leaves universities with cuts for the tenth consecutive year. University bosses say that the year-on-year...
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College managers under scrutiny
* The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has appointed consultants KPMG to review management at 12 colleges in a pilot project. The review, overseen by a SFEFC steering group chaired by...
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Baroness Blackstone
* Baroness Blackstone is at loggerheads with Liberal Democrat education spokesmen over research for the education department that showed that mature students would be deterred by the introduction of...
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Sainsbury searches for industry growth
* Science minister Lord Sainsbury has announced the government is to step up efforts to promote industrial "hot spots". Building on a study of "clustering" in biotechnology, the initiative aims to...
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Rolls-Royce looks for skills partners
* Aerospace giant Rolls-Royce will today signal a fundamental rethink of its relationship with universities and colleges in an effort to overcome an acute skills shortage. At a conference in Coventry...
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Support swells for 'God Save the Queen'
* Patriotic lecturers at the University of Leeds are standing up for the national anthem after it was dropped from degree ceremonies last summer because of the large number of overseas students to...
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Russian military brains probe heart of matter
n Russian former military scientists will be putting their expertise into the investigation of the nature of matter in a ground-breaking Pounds 4.8 million contract signed with the European particle...
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Sources for research funding
INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER (IARC) www.iarc.fr Postdoctoral Fellowships The IARC is offering five postdoctoral fellowships to junior scientists with experience in a research area...
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Get students to run the show
WHAT. Dave Shaw describes how his final-year psychology undergraduates taught themselves about sport. WHY. Students have knowledge, experience, resources and presentation skills that more traditional...
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Agony aunt
Q) 'I have been given a bottle of champagne as a millennium gift from a student and am wondering, should I accept it?' Seiriol Morgan. Philosophy teaching fellow University of Leeds. A) If a gift is...
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Principals push for the higher cause locally
* Scottish principals this week launched a strong bid to persuade MSPs of higher education's importance in local economic development. The Scottish Parliament's powerful enterprise and lifelong...
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Sex bias in science risks legal challenge
(Photograph) - * Universities that discriminate against women may be denied European research funds, according to the vice-chairman of the European Parliament's research committee. Nuala Ahern (...
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UfI rebranded as 'learndirect'
* The University for Industry is now called "learndirect", it was revealed this week at the launch of the first 68 of the 1,000 drop-in learning centres to be fully operational by autumn 2000. The...
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Schools' A-level point scores beat colleges'
* School sixth forms outperform colleges in this year's official government 16 to 18-year-olds' performance tables, fuelling college claims that schools push their "rejects" into local colleges to...