Charity accused of X-ray site bias
The row over the siting of Britain's Pounds 200 million X-ray source for researchers deepened this week with unions at Daresbury saying they "strongly suspect" the Wellcome Trust of vetoing the...
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Cubie lists options to widen Scottish debate on fees
The Cubie inquiry into Scottish student finance is setting out the options that emerged from its gruelling round of public inquiries. Written and oral evidence from contributors will form the basis...
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There should be means-tested maintenance awards
There should be means-tested maintenance awards for part-time students, according to the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals. In a supplementary submission to Cubie, Coshep says that...
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Assembly tightens checks on probity
The advent of the Welsh Assembly has ushered in a sweeping clampdown on lax accounting in higher and further education. Colleges and universities face a twice-yearly progress review by the funding...
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Scotland lures the students
Stirling University has an-nounced an all-time high in undergraduate admissions - 7 per cent up on last year. There had been fears that recruitment would be hit by tuition fees and dwindling student...
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'Rangers' rector in battle of honour
St Andrews University students are considering awarding their own honour to outgoing rector Donald Findlay QC after the university academic council vetoed the traditional award of an honorary degree...
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Requests flood in to teaching institute
Less than one month after the Institute for Learning and Teaching started to accept applications for membership, demand is far outstripping even the most optimistic forecasts. About 200 people per...
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German bio plan is 'not a threat'
Fears that the massive state-backed expansion of the biotechnology sector in Germany threatens Britain's leadership in the field in Europe are unfounded, according to a study. Over the past year...
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No more visits from bumbling bishops, lawyer demands
A national panel of experts should replace the ancient visitor as the investigator of student and staff complaints in old universities, legal experts have argued. Nick Saunders, director of Eversheds...
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Students outraged by lack of complaints procedures
Cambridge University is one of the only universities in Britain without formal procedures for hearing student complaints and appeals, the Cambridge students' union said this week. Its president...
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Charging up the engines of development
Northern Ireland's two universities suffer the region's twin disadvantages of political and economic difficulties. But, as Olga Wojtas and Noel McAdam report, their v-cs promise to transform them...
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Leicester row escalates
'Professor Colley, a protagonist in Dr Colman's dispute, has issued him with a formal disciplinary warning on a charge colleagues claim is trumped up' A whistleblower involved in an acrimonious...
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15-minute minister in a land of limbo
Three months ago, Northern Ireland had its first minister for higher and further education - for about 15 minutes. Brid Rodgers, a veteran of John Hume's Social, Democratic and Labour Party, was...
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Adult divide disturbs Natfhe
Lecturers' union Natfhe welcomed the white paper but is concerned about its focus on the needs of employment and employers rather than the needs of academic staff. It criticises the paper for failing...
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David (D. E. N.) Davies
Cool heads were not easy to find last week through the tragedy of the Paddington rail crash - until, that is, the appointment of Sir David Davies to head the inquiry on advanced automatic train...