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  1. Scotland's higher education institutions

    Scotland's higher education institutions must not lose out if teaching funds for the Open University in Scotland are transferred north of the border, the AUTS has warned. The government is consulting...

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  2. Blunkett's axe hovers over TTA

    Speculation that the government is prepared to abolish the Teacher Training Agency is mounting after last week's announcement of a review of the "future need" for the agency's functions. The...

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  3. Financial penalties for universities to be softened

    Financial penalties for universities that have under-recruited to teacher training courses will be softened this year, the TTA has confirmed. Setting out details of the distribution of Pounds 160...

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  4. Shunning the Scots

    Incorrect recruitment figures were published for Heriot-Watt University ("North hit as applications fall", THES, January 22). The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service figure of a fall of 21...

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  5. Common sense on complaints

    The THES has blown out of the water claims by the university sector that it can handle student complaints ("From mark to blemish",Whistleblowers, THES, February 5). Sadly, Sunderland could have been...

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  6. Need for inspection

    Peter Knight's recommendation that Ofsted handle higher education quality control (THES, "Outsiders looking in", February 5) is entirely logical. It is, of course, true, that Ofsted has achieved a...

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  7. Need for inspection

    Peter Knight makes a good case for a system of external inspection to replace the labour-intensive and unsatisfactory QAA systems. As someone who has emerged into the teaching and learning arena from...

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  8. Letters in brief

    I suspect that one item in your report about vice-chancellors' salaries will be of interest to low-paid university workers. George Bain, now vice-chancellor at Queen's University Belfast, is being...

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  9. Letters in brief

    Wishing to contact the University of Leeds recently with a course inquiry I logged on to its web page, went to "s" in the alphabetical list of departments looking for student-related functions and...

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  10. Letters in brief

    Further to the letter from Miles Scott (January 29) about lecturers' restricted holiday entitlement at the University of North London, it has clearly escaped the notice of UNL management that the...

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  11. Alarm over inequality

    Ronald Crawford, of the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals, claims that the recent research by Bob Osborne on the relative chances of working-class students entering higher education...

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  12. Alarm over inequality

    According to David Roberts of Heist (THES Letters, February 5), research indicates that students from lower income groups apply for a limited range of subjects in relatively few local institutions....

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