Drop-outs disturb hi-tech plan
Just over a third of students in Ireland's fast-growing institute of technology sector drop out or fail their exams in their first year in college, a study shows. The highest leaving/failure rate was...
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Fees waived for mining students
Three schools of mine engineering in Spain are to waive tuition fees in an attempt to boost falling admissions. Students who get a mark of more than seven in the university entrance exam will have...
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Kingston's Pounds 1m media future
Greg Dyke, Pearson Television's chief executive, launched Kingston University's Pounds 1 million digital media centre this week with a prediction of massive growth and booming job prospects in the...
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Journal publishers appeal to state funders for net progress
Publishers of non-scientific academic journals cannot get properly set up for the internet without government money, according to two recent Canadian grant recipients. In April, the federal...
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Web gets personally precise for students
The University of Sydney's 35,000 students and 5,000 staff have become the first in Australia to use a new web portal system that aggregates content and services from a wide range of sources onto a...
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New exam
The British Computer Society has completely revised its examination to reflect up-to-date theory and current working practice. Three stages - certificate, diploma and advanced diploma, plus a...
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G8 online
Students will be able to question leaders at next week's G8 Summit through a new website, G8 Online, a collaboration between eCollege.com, the University of Toronto, and others. More than 3,000...
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Minutes in seconds
(Photograph) - Meetings go faster and are instantly self-documenting in the electronic boardroom at City University's IT centre of excellence, set up with a Pounds 500,000 grant from the Department...
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Pedagogic united unit
It can be argued that there is no reason to single out pedagogical research for special treatment in the research assessment exercise ("Big blow for teaching research in next RAE", THES, June 11)....
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Controls not control
I was surprised at the prominence given to Public Accounts Committee/National Audit Office pressure for more control over higher education institutions without a further exploration of the potential...
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A Labour lie that taxes talent
Having effectively enjoyed a free ride to their position of influence, it is somewhat unseemly for politicians to now stentoriously insist that others pay their own way. The moral weight of the...
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Staying mum
I am getting tired of the women academics as victims reports ("9.2 per cent of professors are women", THES, May 28, Letters, THES, June 11). University-trained, financially independent women who...
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Margin of error?
David de Meza (Letters, THES, June 11) believes I am in error in criticising the background paper to Dearing (Report 7) because it measures the extra value of a graduate to an employer as equal to...
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Margin of error?
Readers will be familiar with the issue of declining student enrolment in economics. One reason for this that is usually overlooked is that mainstream economics has ceased to have relevance to the...
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Standard practice
We welcome your survey of attitudes ("Dons get tough on standards", THES, June 11) as confirmation of the sector's commitment to do a good job for its students. But your leader was confusing about...