Fall of bill may make fees soar
TUITION fees could soar if peers and MPs fail to reach agreement over the Teaching and Higher Education bill in the next few weeks. The bill, designed to prevent top-up fees, abolish maintenance...
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Animal laws 'hamper medical and bio research'
THE laws that govern animal experiments are hampering British research in the medical sciences and biotechnology, according to a society that represents researchers. The Research Defence Society made...
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Arts board gets in gear
THE new Arts and Humanities Research Board will shortly be calling for bids for research project money, it was agreed this week. Details of the board were worked out in talks between the Higher...
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Blunkett push for an extra billion
EDUCATION secretary David Blunkett is looking for at least Pounds 1.6 billion extra for education from next week's comprehensive spending review. Mr Blunkett told MPs on Tuesday that the department...
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FE trebles its debt in four years
Debt levels in further education trebled from Pounds 49.6 million in 1994 to Pounds 162.2 million in 1997. This year's Further Education Financial Yearbook published this week by Noble Financial...
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Trainee circus artistes recruited for Dome
A shortage of skilled circus performers has forced the company charged with building the Millennium Dome, the New Millennium Experience Company, to recruit and train 100 young people for a...
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Nesta plans to hand out Lottery dosh
The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts was formally created last week to foster talent, innovation and creativity in all three areas. It aims to dispense cash from its Pounds 200...
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Flying the flag for Britain
The British Council employs more than 1,500 professional teachers of English at 1 teaching centres in 54 countries, teaching 1.1 million class hours in 1997-98, its annual report reveals this week....
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Governors need guidance on liability
A report to the Neill committee on standards in public life has said that a further education funding council guide for governors could "mislead". The report on the findings of a study on personal...
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Teachers 'need training on use of museums'
The Museums and Galleries Commission wants local education authorities to provide local museums special funding packages to meet the cost of their services to schools and colleges. It also called for...
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Scots reward teaching excellence
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is giving about Pounds 750,000 extra to subjects rated excellent for teaching. Glasgow University gets Pounds 185,000 for European languages, psychology...
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In the picture: Sharon Sansom of Sheffield and Morag McDonald of Newquay
(Photograph) - In the picture: Sharon Sansom of Sheffield and Morag McDonald of Newquay were among 50 state school teachers visiting Oxford this week as part of the university's campaign to attract...
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Flaws, tables and chairs
Having only one female professor, my university may have been overlooked for your female professorial league table for 1996-97. It would be pleasant, however, to have had my existence acknowledged,...
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Flaws, tables and chairs
No wonder women academics such as Anne Boddington have such difficulty with promotion ("going for promotion was 'like playing poker with loaded dice'"). Poker is a card game. David C Nicoll Regent...
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UEL could be plunged into fresh financial crisis
NEW cash crises could hit the University of East London next year because it is "seriously adrift" from target levels of recruitment, an independent consultant has warned, writes Harriet Swain....