V-cs set up admissions advice service
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals will launch a consultancy service for widening participation next week. The service will offer confidential and impartial advice on providing access...
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College partners see draft code of practice
Each further education college that runs higher education courses as part of a consortium will be held responsible for the quality of courses despite funding being channelled through a higher...
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Byers hints at Cheshire base for synchrotron
Trade and industry secretary Stephen Byers this week gave further indications that his preferred site for the United Kingdom's new X-ray synchrotron source is Daresbury Laboratory. His final decision...
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Stagecoach boss gets student roasting
The National Union of Students Scotland is to consult its members about a possible boycott of the Stagecoach company in protest at its owner's moves in favour of the controversial Section 28 law....
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Washington DC
The United States department of education says the number of American distance-education programmes rose by 72 per cent between 1995 and 1998. A department survey found that in 1998, 1,680...
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Pearson plc teams up with virtual university
Regents College, a United States-based virtual university, has joined forces with FT Knowledge, the business education arm of Pearson plc, bringing a global, distance learning network to the UK. With...
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Meningitis outbreak feared
Two fourth-year nursing students from Liverpool University have been admitted to hospital with suspected meningitis. The incidence of the disease rose 12 per cent in the United Kingdom last year,...
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Cronenberg quoted
The David Cronenberg interview referred to in "UK lags behind in DV revolution" (THES, Enterprise page, January 14) was, in fact, a collaborative venture with Xavier Mendik, a lecturer in popular...
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Visitors belong to a bygone age
I attended a seminar on the visitor ("Outdated visitors need a rational replacement", THES, January 14) held by UCELNET late last year as one of two student representatives. Present at the seminar...
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Visitors belong to a bygone age
Once again the acceptability of the role of the visitor is called into question. Surely it is time to accept some facts. First, that there is no system of visitatorial powers but merely a collection...
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Visitors belong to a bygone age
All sorts of horror stories abound about the crises facing institutions as first the Data Protection Act and then the Human Rights Act come into force ("Preventive action -or legal conflict", THES,...
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English battlefield
So Valentine Cunningham does not know what English is ("A varied syllabus with nothing at its core", THES, January 14). It is ironic that his article should appear in the same week that the benchmark...
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English battlefield
It is difficult to see through the rhetorical flourishes and laid-back stance how serious Cunningham is about the future of university English. English language and literature degrees were an uneasy...
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The Tyson treatment
There is no doubt that immigration practice deters students and other academics from coming to Britain ("Foreign Office to scrutinise visa refusals", THES, January 14). The loss is not just in...
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Consumer rights site
Students living away from home for the first time have been singled out as the targets of a consumer rights website, launched this week by the Office for Fair Trading. As well as providing online...