Colleges 'must get ready for euro'
Universities and colleges must gear up for buying and selling services in the euro even though the new currency will have little immediate impact on their activities, funding chiefs have warned. A...
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Demand for graduates slips
Demand for top-flight graduates will slow this year, forcing many to try for lower level and even non-degree jobs, according to two reports. The Association of Graduate Recruiters this week predicted...
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NUS calls for student complaint watchdog
Vice-chancellors' proposals for dealing with student appeals and complaints have been condemned by the National Union of Students, writes Tony Tysome. NUS leaders are objecting to the Committee of...
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Association of Colleges
The Association of Colleges is urging its members to write to the DFEE to oppose plans to cut the proportion of business representatives on boards from half to one third. In a letter it says: "The...
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Lecturers' leaders may call for strikes
Lecturers will this month discuss whether to prepare for industrial action should employers postpone this year's pay settlement to await the outcome of the Bett inquiry into pay and conditions. A...
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Academic workload troubles the unions
Lawyers are wrestling with the impact of working time regulations on academic staff, following concerns from both unions and employers, writes Harriet Swain. The regulations, which came into effect...
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Cabinet archives hold omens for new Labour
A G. Brown was the second most important minister in the Labour government of 1964-1970, which like today's was conducting rigorous reviews of its spending priorities, trying to reform the House of...
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Girls email their way into male internet culture
Schools that emphasise the communicative aspects of information technology are likely to attract more girls to what has long been seen as a male-dominated subject. Researchers at Sheffield and...
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Publicise patients' primary care centres, GPs told
Patients' unhappiness with the way they are treated by the health service out of hours often stems from a lack of information about what to expect, according to researchers at Lancaster University....
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Americans conduct odd love affair with Scottish nationalism
The Scottish National Party should be cautious in its bid for support in the United States, where views of Scottishness can be "ambiguous and murky", a Staffordshire University research fellow warned...
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Pyschometric testing could cut student doctor drop-outs
Medical schools should consider introducing psychometric tests into selection procedures, University of Nottingham and the Oxford Consulting group researchers say. Early findings from a seven-year...
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Season of goodwill job hunting
How can students turn pulling pints into key skills? Tony Tysome looks at the latest approach to work experience. Students, university careers officers and employers are being encouraged to rethink...
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Iron fists in velvet gloves
Progress and tradition could go hand in hand in China but only if reformists will let them, Wang Gungwu argues. The Indian regional elections went well for the Congress Party in November, but perhaps...
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Benin
Half the 800 graduating students at the Federal University of Benin, Nigeria, were prevented from attending their degree ceremony by armed soldiers, who cordoned off the area to forestall a...
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Umea
A court in the Norrland district of northSweden has increased the sentence on Daniel Berner, a member of the neo-Nazi network Nordland, and confirmed the sentence of Karolina Matti, a PhD student at...