Nigerians head for ACU in Ottawa
NIGERIA's vice-chancellors have been invited to next week's Association of Commonwealth Universities conference in Ottawa although their country is suspended from Commonwealth membership. The ACU is...
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MPs point to franchise lessons
LESSONS from an investigation into alleged misuse of public funds at Halton College, Widnes, must be "promulgated throughout the sector", the influential House of Commons Public Accounts Committee...
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Funder threat to college freedom
COLLEGE autonomy is under threat as the Further Education Funding Council said this week that it wants powers to intervene in the running of colleges. The FEFC has told the government that its powers...
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RDA chairmen lack education experience
ONLY three of the nine chairmen of the new regional development agencies have an education background. University of East Anglia vice-chancellor Vincent Watts, as designate chair of the Eastern RDA,...
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Matthew Boulton College
The FEFC's demands for more control come as the council faces criticism for its role in the financial crisis at Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham. The council this week declined to respond to...
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Deadline for student loan sale
COMPANIES have until August 24 to register for the second Pounds 1 billion sale of student loan debt. There has been considerable interest, says N. M. Rothschild & Sons, which is handling the...
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Students set for meningitis inoculation
CARDIFF University has recommended that up to 4,700 students including all first-years and any others living in halls of residence should be immunised against meningitis. The Bro Taf Health Authority...
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End Oxbridge MAs scam
Your front-page story ("Oxbridge MAs in danger", THES, August 7) started me thinking. Of course Ivor Crewe is right to say: "Nomenclature and abbreviations I must indicate one, and only one, level of...
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Appointments
University of Greenwich Mary Stiasney, deputy head of the school of education at Oxford Brookes University, has been appointed head of the school of education. UKCOSA Council for International...
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Awards
London Mathematical Society De Morgan Medal: Robert Rankin, professor, University of Glasgow, for his contribution to the theory of numbers. Senior Berwick Prize: Brian Davies, professor, King's...
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Bath offers physicists teacher training
PHYSICS students at Bath University will be able to graduate with a BSc degree and a teacher training certificate following the launch of a new course. Most Bath physics courses take four years....
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Ceiling for estates funding bids on the cards
LIMITS on bids for money to improve estates are likely in future after the first year of the initiative was oversubscribed. The Higher Education Funding Council for England, which is providing Pounds...
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Heriot-Watt merger in Scottish borders
THE merger of Heriot-Watt University and the Scottish College of Textiles in the Scottish borders has been approved by Scottish secretary Donald Dewar. The university said it wants to develop an...
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Appeal Court upholds gender bias claim
THE University of Ulster is to pay Pounds 32,000 in damages to a woman it discriminated against, after the Court of Appeal rejected the university's attempt to get the compensation award reduced. At...
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Tribunal dismisses discrimination case
AN INDUSTRIAL Tribunal has ruled that Accrington and Rossendale College indirectly discriminated against women by using lecturing services agency ELS. But the claim against the college, by Debra...