Hard lives
This week's alumni to be proud of, numbers 140 and 141, are living proof that we may have overestimated the cultural effects of education. Norman Tebbit, became a pilot, trade union activist and...
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Durham calls for the doctor
DURHAM University has appointed the chief medical officer, Sir Kenneth Calman, to take over as vice chancellor next year following the retirement ofEvelyn Ebsworth, writes Alison Utley. Sir Kenneth,...
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Group has good chemistry
THE GROUP implementing the new concordat to improve career management for university contract research staff identified key themes for investigation when it met for the first time this week. Sir...
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Skylight
(Photograph) - Artist Kyffin Williams (left), with principal Derek Llwyd Morgan, launch a year-long celebration of 125 years of higher education at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. The launch...
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Checkland aims to open access
THE NEW chairman of the Higher Education Funding Council for England has vowed to make promoting access the key theme of his three-year appointment. Sir Michael Checkland, 61, former director general...
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Alliance to approach Blunkett
Employers and union forge new coalition for cash as further education collges plunge deeper into debt COLLEGE employers have forged an unprecedented alliance with Britain's biggest union to fight for...
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Harlow denies 'record deficit'
Employers and union forge new coalition for cash as further education collges plunge deeper into debt RATIONALISATION and redundancies left Harlow College with the biggest deficit in the English...
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People's short fall cuts reserves
Employers and union forge new coalition for cash as further education collges plunge deeper into debt The oldest college in the country is also the lowest-funded in its region. People's College,...
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Success from a historic miss
The failure of Inverness to win its own university in the 1960s may be seen historically as "very good news" for the north of Scotland, according to Brian Duffield, chief executive of the University...
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Franchise role impresses lifelong learning authors
Universities would be "turned inside-out" and become semi-privatised franchisers of work and community-based education under plans that have impressed the authors behind the government's forthcoming...
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DOH grabs medicine
HEALTH academics fear millions of pounds worth of grant could transfer from the Higher Education Funding Council for England to National Health Service employers, under government plans. Ministers...
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Medical and dental students' tuition fees
In the same announcement Mr Dobson said medical and dental students would have to pay tuition fees for the first four years of their degrees, but that in the fifth, and where appropriate sixth, years...
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Validator keeps an eye on orthoptics
QUESTIONS were raised this week over the continued validation of a paramedical degree at the troubled Glasgow Caledonian University, while Strathclyde University has issued an ultimatum over a...
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Erosion evasion
(Photograph) - Erosion evasion: William Smyth, St Andrews University MA geography student, hopes to save his local beach from sea erosion with his final-year dissertation project. The 23-year-old...
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Howard demotes Vanstone
PRIME MINISTER John Howard has demoted Amanda Vanstone, the minister responsible for overseeing sweeping changes in Australian higher education since the coalition government came to power 18 months...