E-university's shape gains more definition
The e-university's pulling potential will become clearer in coming weeks as the funding council selects who should serve on its committee for academic quality. Vice-chancellors have been invited to...
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Where a minister might go for a song
Glasgow Caledonian University has opened the world's first centre dedicated to political song. Former Labour MEP Janey Buchan has donated material that ranges from street demonstrations and pantomime...
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Bett warns of staffing crisis
"Sticking plaster" increases in higher education funding will do nothing to stop a looming crisis in lecturer recruitment, MPs were warned this week. Sir Michael Bett, who produced the Bett report...
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Seven scientists to retire to help cut costs
Seven earth sciences staff at Imperial College, London, have been asked to take early retirement because of financial problems. John Beddington, director of the T. H. Huxley School, which...
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Students live in fear in crime capital
Leeds is the crime capital of Britain, according to the British Crime Survey of 2000. And the worst places are the streets where students live. Final-year undergraduate Emma Hawkridge lives in...
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Bid to bridge the skills gap
A new ladder of vocational progression, leading from schools to degree level, is to be created to help tackle Britain's skills gap. Further education and sixth- form colleges will be encouraged to...
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Tories pledge to hike salaries
Lecturers could earn more under a Conservative Party proposal to allow endowed universities to determine pay locally. But the Conservative policy could also mean wide geographical differences in...
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Universities urged to collaborate
British universities must collaborate more with other institutions or risk Soviet-style intervention by government and the funding council, universities chief Howard Newby said this week. Sir Howard...
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Exeter musicians fight to keep department
Musicians at Exeter University are fighting to save their department. They are working on an emergency action plan to tackle a £22,000 deficit and improve practice and performance facilities, which...
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Dundee-St Andrews partnership pays off
A partnership agreement between two Scottish universities has led to the launch of a postgraduate research degree aimed at tackling urgent environmental problems. The one-year master of research...
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Unions seek assurance over Derby merger
Union leaders have called for assurance from Derby University that there will be no compulsory redundancies following the university's announcement that it is to merge its schools of engineering,...
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Female graduates lose out in the pay stakes
Male graduates are paid significantly more than their female counterparts just three and a half years after graduating, a pan-European study has found. The European Commission-funded research found...
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No single solution for FE dropouts
There is no universal remedy for student dropouts in further education and each college is likely to take a unique approach to the problem, according to a report by Norah Fitzcharles of Cumbernauld...
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Engineers join forces in learndirect network
The engineering industry has agreed a training-centre merger that would create the largest sector-wide training network under the University for Industry's learndirect service. The National Training...
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Fee protesters are banned from lectures
Six Oxford University students who object to tuition fees and have refused to pay them have been banned from lectures. The students must pay up by the middle of February or risk flouting university...