MPs challenge Ofsted inspections
MPs want to ease the inspection burden for higher education institutions running teacher training courses. Members of the education and employment select committee called for "light touch" inspection...
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Oil anglicises islanders
People living in one of Russia's most remote and poorest regions are getting a dose of English education as a prelude to oil exploration by BP-Amoco. A Russian-British centre opened last month in...
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Easier entry for foreigners
Fee-paying international students are the focus of a government initiative launched this week. A strategy to be launched by Baroness Blackstone at the London School of Economics today promises to...
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Universities 'need race targets'
British universities should set targets for achieving racial equality in terms of academic recruitment and promotion, according to a new report. Tariq Modood and Steve Fenton, of Bristol University,...
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Flower power
Before you start your smug annual competition for student howlers, please remember "...tinkering with geranium alloys...(led) to the invention of the transistor" ("The lords of the flies", THES, June...
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Burdened medicine in crisis
Universities have been warned to limit the working hours of clinical academics. The warning came at this week's meeting of the British Medical Association's medical academic staff committee. The...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT www.dfid.gov.uk Economic and...
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Staff costs push up HE bill
Expenditure by higher education institutions increased by Pounds 434 million to Pounds 11.3 billion last year with staff costs accounting for Pounds 164 million of the rise, according to latest...
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Gay freedom limited by costs
An increasing number of gay students are having to repress their sexuality because of tuition fees, student union campaigners have claimed. Having to study at a university close to home means that...
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Economists opt for the City
Low pay is to blame for students turning their backs on postgraduate research and lecturing in economics and instead heading for lucrative careers in the City, a study has found. It found that the...
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NAO sees staff cuts as 'efficient'
Scottish colleges are wasting tens of millions of pounds through inefficiency, public spending watchdogs have warned. More staff cuts, larger class sizes and increased use of part-time lecturers have...
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Reforms leave no time for students' casual jobs
Ministers' A-level reforms will alienate poorer students and undermine widening access plans, delegates at the Association of Colleges' annual 16-19 conference heard this week, writes Phil Baty....
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Minister hails 'centres for excellence'
Henry McLeish, Scotland's new minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has delighted further education by hailing it as the centre of excellence and centre of communities in promoting a...
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Principal will not get his job back
It is "quite impracticable" for Glasgow Caledonian University to reinstate former principal Stan Mason, sacked two years ago for gross misconduct, an employment appeal tribunal has ruled, writes Olga...
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Salmon versus baked beans
Tuition fees have emerged as a progressive, even left-wing, cause in the online debate run by The THES and Nexus. Combined with an aggressive programme of means-tested assistance for less well-off...