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Four out of 15 further education students fail to attend their lessons. The non-attendance rate in the median class was revealed by college inspections over two years of 20,000 classes, Sir William...
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Scots record
Full-time higher education student numbers in Scotland are at record levels. Full-time numbers rose by 10 per cent from 1992/93 to 132,509 in 1993/94, and the proportion of women full-time entrants...
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Status fight
Roehampton Institute is to renew its fight for university status following planning permission to develop its campus for the relocation of the new Southlands College from Wimbledon and the creation...
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MPs' probe
The House of Commons select committee on education is to beef up its annual examination of the Department for Education's expenditure to an investigation of education spending in general. The Higher...
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Russia lacks regional dimension
Russia needs a proper regional policy to ease the pressures of economic and political transition, a Moscow expert told theconference. Sergei Artobolevski, senior researcher at the Russian Academy's...
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Paying the price of unity
Germany may have been unified for almost five years, but the economic repercussions of the incorporation of the German Democratic Republic will reverberate through the European Union for some time...
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Boom in local heroics
For those surfeited with VE Day, neutral Sweden was ideal last weekend. Most Swedes were more concerned by the national ice hockey team's failure in the World Championship final. But there is no...
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Dearing looks to single post-school qualification
A single qualifications framework for post-school education and training, with a new points system for entry into higher education, could emerge from a Government-backed review. Sir Ron Dearing, who...
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Vinnie Jones, Wimbledon captain public speaking at the Oxford Union
(Photograph) - Don meets the Dons: Vinnie Jones, Wimbledon captain and sometime hod-carrier, tackling an unfamiliar situation - a public speech at the Oxford Union - in an all-too-familiar way. Mr...
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Pay deal plays safe
Union leaders in the old universities have struck a pay deal with employers designed to safeguard the worst-off universities. The 2.7 per cent increase in salaries is to be recommended to the...
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Natfhe official changes sides
A senior official of lecturers' union Natfhe has been poached by the new lecturers-for-hire business backed by college employers. Richard Eve, assistant further education secretary, was given a week...
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Training millions spark interest
More than 70 universities are likely to bid in the first round of the Leonardo da Vinci programme, the five-year Pounds 520 million European vocational initiative launched in the United Kingdom last...
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Rector gaoled for ethnic resistance
The rector of the "illegal" Albanian-language University of Tetovo in Macedonia has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for "inciting the people to resistance". Fadil Sulejman was...
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Scots colleges go poly
Six of Scotland's 43 further education colleges have set themselves up as a "polytechnic" sector offering an alternative to university-based higher education. A quarter of higher education entrants...
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Down to earth
(Photograph) - Down to earth: The first pictures beamed to earth from the European environmental satellite, ERS-2, include this one of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, taken by a British-...