UfI names 16 winners of learndirect funding
Sixteen institutions have won funding to run higher education learndirect courses for the University for Industry. They have been allocated funding for 845 full-time equivalent students on courses in...
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Edinburgh fights fear of deficit with bond
Edinburgh University is negotiating a £40 million bond from a major financial institution to combat a potential £12 million deficit within four years. Principal Sir Stewart...
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The price of advice
The cost of Northern Ireland's main consultative bodies for further and higher education is more than £250,000. Higher and further education minister Sean Farren told the Northern Ireland...
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Revamped NTOs to get more funds
National training organisations, which will play a key role in the reorganised post-16 sector from next year, will be overhauled in return for more funding, the government announced this week. Some...
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Skills gap requires 'hard choices'
Shorter degree courses, closer contact with potential employers and lifelong learning schemes will all help cut the skills shortage in electronic engineering. These were among suggestions made by...
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The Shell Technology Enterprise Programme
The Shell Technology Enterprise Programme has launched a £1.4 million initiative with the Department of Trade and Industry to get more graduates into careers in electronic...
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MPs strive for a united front
The Commons' report on higher education will have to pull together a broad spectrum of opinion, says Claire Sanders The 11 members of the House of Commons select committee inquiring into higher...
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Kingston loses tribunal
Kingston University dismissed senior lecturer Agi Oldfield unfairly, giving her an ultimatum to "resign or be sacked" after she made informal complaints of harassment against her...
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Don's Diary
Thursday The site I founded in my gap year, InfoYouth, for 16 to 24-year-olds, is launching in just under a week. Under the auspices of Schoolsnet, it will provide information for students on...
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Glasgow students vote to kick out Kemp
Ross Kemp, the student-elected rector of Glasgow University, has been asked to resign because he did not give a freshers' week address for the second year running. Questioning his commitment to the...
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On the move
Members of the national council of the Learning and Skills Council, announced this week, are: Chris Banks, managing director of Coca-Cola Great Britain; Chris Humphries, director-general of the...
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Glittering prizes
Patrick Moore has been presented with a special Millennium Award in the form of a sundial by the Royal Astronomical Society , in recognition of his outstanding contribution to astronomy. The Globe...
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Knights are drawing in
Beady eyes were trying to identify who had purchased a new suit at a reception held this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Today is the deadline for applications to succeed...
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Ministerial doubts
Nicol Stephen, Scotland's deputy minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, is obviously sceptical about collaboration between universities. Sir Alan Langlands, principal of Dundee University,...
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Cash-strapped history
Edinburgh University, which has just unveiled radical plans to combat dwindling government funding, is no stranger to financial privations. The foundation stone of its 18th-century Old College was...