Encourage overseas study, says council
More students should be encouraged and given support to study abroad to "internationalise" UK higher education, the British Council has said. UK graduates will suffer in competition for jobs in the...
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Union urges local control for ex-polys
The 1992 Further and Higher Education Act that turned polytechnics into universities and privatised further education colleges must be repealed, the general secretary of lecturers' union Natfhe will...
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Further education lecturers are considering leaving their job
* Two-thirds of further education lecturers are considering leaving their job or taking early retirement because they feel overworked and undervalued, a survey for Natfhe has revealed, writes Tony...
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Funding council begins radical reshuffle
A radical reshuffle of the English funding council is under way. Two of its four directors are leaving, and advertisements for up to three new directors were placed last week. The rejig is part of...
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Number of applicants rises 2%, Ucas says
Numbers applying to university are up 2 per cent over last year, according to today's figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. British applications rose 0.9 per cent rise, while...
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Time to tackle London's challenges, mayor says
London mayor Ken Livingstone has called on the capital's universities and colleges to address the city's challenges. He told a conference yesterday that by 2020, London would be home to 700,000 more...
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Southampton ends affiliation with NUS
Southampton University students union has ended its affiliation to the National Union of Students, joining counterparts at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Edinburgh...
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Glasgow helps children of 9/11 terror victims
Glasgow University has set up a postgraduate scholarship scheme open to children of those who died in the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York. The scholarship commemorates Glasgow graduate...
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Architecture's everyman
Glenn Murcutt has just been awarded the 'Nobel prize of architecture'. Linda Vergnani meets the uncompromising loner 'whom every architect would like to be'. Driving an ancient Citroën through a...
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This may make you choke on your sushi...
Does one of the host nations of the World Cup bring to mind geishas and duty-bound businessmen? Cut the cliché, says Ayako Yoshino. The world's greatest sporting carnival has kicked off again. Brace...
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Warming words but chill is still in the air
Does the strategic arms reduction treaty signed by Russia and the US liquidate 'the legacy of the cold war', asks At last week's summit between US president George W. Bush and Russian president...
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'Human evolution has moved on from the biological to the cultural arena'
Continuing our series of Big Science Questions, Mark Buchanan asks if we are in a post-evolutionary age, and Michael Ruse looks at our role in change. Comments that followed the death of Stephen Jay...
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Has mother nature been outwitted?
Continuing our series of Big Science Questions, Mark Buchanan asks if we are in a post-evolutionary age, and Michael Ruse looks at our role in change. It is tempting to suppose that in this modern...
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Empire needed its emir, caliph, king
On the eve of the Queen's golden jubilee celebrations, THES writers examine why European monarchies endure and look at royal dynasties around the world. British imperial rule nurtured pliant monarchs...
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The power of the crown to harmonise
On the eve of the Queen's golden jubilee celebrations, THES writers examine why European monarchies endure and look at royal dynasties around the world. Europe's monarchs have survived by ceding...