Warning over risk of on-job training
The number of graduates gaining teaching qualifications by working in schools instead of attending university courses is to be doubled under government plans announced this week. But academics fear...
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Both sides in copyright tribunal expecting victory
As the tribunal hearing to decide the future of the copyright agreement between universities and publishers closed last week, both sides were confident of a win. Universities UK brought the case,...
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Skilled student begs for asylum
A talented Russian asylum-seeker's dream place at medical school hangs in the balance this week amid last-ditch attempts to prevent her deportation. Ann Brodski, whose half-Jewish family came to...
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AoC pay promise staves off strike
Further education college chiefs and lecturers' union leaders have come to an 11th-hour agreement over pay to avoid a two-day strike next week. Both sides are hoping that the deal will release an...
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Libraries feel pinch as readers make demands
University library budgets are being stretched further than ever with users expecting libraries to subscribe to both print and electronic versions of journals. Research from the Ingenta Institute,...
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News in brief
Daresbury-Rutherford pact reaps cash benefit Daresbury and Rutherford Appleton laboratories are to benefit from the latest Faraday Partnership. Some £200,000 of annual government funding will go...
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Analysis: Great idea - shame about the cold feet
The government is relying on the foundation degree to meet its participation targets, so why has the degree had so little publicity? Tony Tysome reports. The foundation degree, the United Kingdom's "...
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Europe set to put the first man on Mars
The first flag planted by man in the parched red soil of Mars could bear Europe's ring of yellow stars. The ambitious landing has been suggested by scientists as a follow-up to carrying samples of...
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For the record
AHRB cuts loose from HEFC The Arts and Humanities Research Board has been incorporated as a public company and can now employ its own staff and run its accounts separately from the Higher Education...
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World watch
Valledupar A former Colombian culture minister, Consuelo Araujo, has been kidnapped by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces leftist guerrilla group. Mrs Araujo, whose husband is the procurator-...
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Rig removal may leave heavy metal in the sea
Removing disused oil rigs may damage the environment more than leaving them in place, researchers have found. Seabed landers sent to the bottom of the North Sea detected lower than expected levels of...
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BMA backs bid for a common first year
A common first undergraduate year for doctors, nurses and other health professionals has received cautious backing from the British Medical Association. The BMA's interim response to July's Bristol...
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OU report calls for work on reforms
The Royal Colleges of medicine, deaneries and health trusts need to work together if the 1996 Calman reforms of higher training for specialist registrars are to work, an Open University report says,...
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Whistleblowers: UCL tells scientist to go
World-class research into a promising treatment for skin cancer at University College London could collapse after the lead researcher failed to find a permanent post at the college after almost 20...
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V-c in access warning
Research-led institutions will struggle to raise the numbers of students from deprived areas, the incoming vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton has warned. Bill Wakeham told The THES : "...