Farewell to welfare
New Labour embraces an economic model that promotes inequality, says Donald Hagger. The social contract and the Labour Party are dead. Tony Blair has completed Margaret Thatcher's destruction of the...
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Financing is the crucial issue
WHAT THE THINK TANKS ARE THINKING Institute for Public Policy Research The introduction of tuition fees and abolition of grants was a bold political act and long overdue. But the process of reform...
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Top-ups back to spook Labour
The most influential new Labour think-tank has backed university top-up fees, signalling possible change in future government higher education funding policy. The Institute for Public Policy Research...
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'Free tuition for all named Grant'
THES reporters scrutinise the minority party manifestos Socialist Alliance "Students and staff have suffered under the Tories and Labour, which imposed tuition fees and ended free higher education."...
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The smallest of swings might turn the tables
Most marginal Scottish seats are a battle between Labour and the Scottish National Party Aberdeen South is one of only a handful where Labour will be fighting against the Liberal Democrats, its...
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Apathetic learners won't rock the boat
Voters have returned a Conservative member of parliament for Guildford since 1832, but could students hold the key to a possible swing to the Liberal Democrats on June 7? Conservative Nick St Aubyn...
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College cutbacks concern all
Colchester was created as a new constituency in 1997 and is the tightest three-way marginal in the country with just 2,000 votes separating the three parties. Liberal Democrat Bob Russell, a former...
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Students hold the balance of power
It is tempting to assume that higher education issues will be a decisive factor in the electoral battle for Birmingham Edgbaston. As in 1997, when Labour overturned a 100-year Tory reign in the...
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Interdisciplinary Research Networks in Analytical Science
Deadline: 31/07/2001
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MathFIT - Call for Proposals
Deadline: 19/10/2001
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Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Processes and European Climate (COAPEC): fellowships
Deadline: 30/09/2001
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E-science programme
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Budgeting and complementary control mechanisms
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Dr Edouard Delcroix Prize
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Research Grants
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