Rising debt hits access efforts
Government plans to widen participation in higher education suffered a blow this week as figures showed that spiralling student debt is deterring the poor and disadvantaged. For the second year...
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Tehran: students support reforms
More than 1,000 students demonstrated at Tehran University this week in support of pro-democracy reforms. Despite attempts by non-student hardliners to disrupt the gathering, it ended without...
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Ann Arbor: student dies on birthday bash
A University of Michigan engineering student died after celebrating his 21st birthday with 20 shots of scotch in ten minutes, police said.
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Support scheme for heritage volunteers
The Association of Art Historians is to launch a scheme intended to support voluntary student work placements in museums, galleries and other UK heritage institutions. The scheme will contribute up...
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Leeds centre to study lifelong fashions
Leeds University is opening a research and postgraduate institute dedicated to lifelong learning today. Director Phil Hodkinson said that after completing their formal education most adults earned no...
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Research highlights flaws in learning plan
The government's Connexions strategy of building a national support service to ensure that 13 to 19-year-olds engage with learning is largely irrelevant in areas with a chronic lack of employment,...
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McLeish tells quangos: justify yourself or die
The Scottish higher and further education funding councils will have to defend their roles to Scotland's first minister, Henry McLeish, as he threatens a "bonfire of the quangos". Mr McLeish said: "...
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Youth in work data request is denied
The government this week rejected calls to publish the number of young people who get a steady job immediately after full-time education and training under the New Deal. The Commons education and...
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Welsh recruiting success
Growth in the recruitment of "traditional" further education students aged 16 to 18 in Welsh colleges and universities has reached a peak while the number of mature further education students...
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Three new universities scoop Queen's prizes
A record three new universities have been honoured in this year's Queen's anniversary prizes. Greenwich, Middlesex and Oxford Brookes were among the 17 prizewinning institutions recognised for...
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Rome: exchange agreed
La Sapienza University has signed an agreement with the University of Belgrade for exchanges of lecturers, researchers and students.
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Bonn: IT centre for women
The German education and family ministries will spend E5.11 million (£3.4 million) over the next five years to establish a centre to encourage women into information technology and other...
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Mitchell honoured by student exchange
Twelve US students have won scholarships to study in Ireland as a tribute to George Mitchell, the American senator who helped shape the Northern Ireland peace process. The Mitchell scholarships for...
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Recognition for late BBC broadcaster
Sir Robin Day will receive a posthumous award for political interviewing from the Political Studies Association next week. The award will be one of a series to mark the 50th anniversary of the PSA,...
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Bond scholar uses many pennies for trek
Glasgow University student Jack Savage will hopefully be stirred but not shaken by his experiences on a new travelling scholarship commemorating an adventurer said to be the model for James Bond. Sir...