Don's Diary
Monday Wake up in state of disorientation in the Transylvanian town of Sibiu. Turn over and rumple Terry Eagleton's Illusions of Postmodernism, which appears to have served as a pillow. Join Mark...
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Buenos Aires
Argentina's national deaf-mutes' association has opened the country's first school of Argentinian sign language in Buenos Aires, the Jose Antonio Terry institute.
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Labour is off-target on FE
The government's further education policy faced failure this week when it emerged that student numbers are set to fall for a second year running, after 20 years of growth. Despite ministers' plans to...
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Ethics code for student advisers
A strict code of ethics for international student advisers has been drafted amid concern that United Kingdom universities are exploiting fee-paying overseas students. Ukcosa, the UK Council for...
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Draft rules set to complete QAA's code of practice
The last nine quality control rules of a list of more than 150 that universities will have to adhere to have been set down by the Quality Assurance Agency, writes Phil Baty. The QAA's code of...
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Students angered by tuition fees success claims
Student leaders were angered this week after a government minister used small rises in student numbers as proof that its policy on tuition fees policy and scrapping grants is working, writes Alan...
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Fears as skills bill debate is planned
MPs look set to debate the role of universities amid fears that the government is wrong to exclude higher education from its Learning and Skills Bill. Lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks...
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Degrees boosted by apprenticeships
Students will be offered the chance of work-based apprenticeships from this autumn in a bid to produce employees who combine university-level knowledge with business sense and generic key skills,...
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Abolition of tuition fees leads to rush of applicants for Scottish places
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has welcomed the dramatic rise in the number of Scottish higher education applications as stemming from the Scottish Executive...
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Deadline extension gives students time to get it right
University applicants would be given more time to apply for places under proposals being considered by admissions tutors. At their annual conference in Aberystwyth last week, admissions officers...
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Is social work becoming an outcast?
Poor pay, stressful working conditions and a bad press are deterring would-be social workers. Claire Sanders discovers a profession in crisis Applications to study social work have more than halved...
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High-flying girls show late fall-out
High-flying female pupils in Scotland are less likely to go into higher education than high-flying males, despite being equally likely to apply, Edinburgh University researchers have found. Teresa...
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Scots examine sex inequality
Amid national concern over gender and racial discrimination in pay and appointments, Edinburgh University is publishing what it believes is the most thorough and wide-ranging analysis of staff in any...
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ACCA embarrassment
'Mr Carr conducted the appeal without a copy of the disciplinary procedure when the applicant was raising numerous breaches of it' A second major embarrassment has hit the Association of Chartered...
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Newi staff voice 'harassment' distress
Funding council officials investigating allegations of mismanagement at the North East Wales Institute on behalf of the Welsh Assembly may wish to consider the findings of the college's own senior...