Extra cash on cards to crack class privilege
POOR and disabled students could bring a cash bonus for the universities that recruit them next year, under plans discussed by the English funding council this week. Extra money found by top-slicing...
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The peace deal
An historic peace deal and the long-awaited go-ahead for a new campus promise exciting times for Ulster's higher and futher education. The Stormont agreement is a complex and delicately balanced...
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The end of the beginning
An historic peace deal and the long-awaited go-ahead for a new campus promise exciting times for Ulster's higher and futher education. A peace agreement does not mean that violence and suspicion...
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Son et lumiere show
Anglia Polytechnic University is back on the PR offensive following its bad press (see above). First the business school, as reported in The THES two weeks ago, staged a "festival" to celebrate its...
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Youth threat to UK science
Lack of investment in laboratory equipment and declining interest in scientific careers among young people are threatening the United Kingdom's science base, according to the Office of Science and...
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Hard up colleges demand relief
More than one in four colleges is suffering "acute financial difficulties", the highest figure yet, according to the Further Education Funding Council. The figure, up from 6 per cent in 1994 to over...
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Individual learning accounts guide
A guide for individual learning accounts, published by the government last week, says that the cost of learning could fall because the accounts would stimulate new demand for education and so...
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Principal claims unfair dismisssal
STAN Mason, fired last September for gross misconduct from his post as principal of Glasgow Caledonian University, has this week claimed at an industrial tribunal that he was unfairly dismissed. Ian...
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Institute aspires to university status
LONDON'S Roehampton Institute is seeking full university status through federation with the University of Surrey. The institute, an institute of Surrey University, has the power to award its own...
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Students denied housing benefit
THOUSANDS of full-time students have failed in a bid to receive housing benefit following a decision by the Housing Benefit Review Board. More than 3,000 students swamped Oxford City Council with...
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Governors make a comeback
Half of the Association of Colleges' former board of governors are standing for re-election, after a vote of no confidence in February forced a mass resignation. The 18-member Board was forced to...
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Fraud squad investigates colleges
SOUTH Wales police fraud squad says it is launching an investigation into a number of further and higher education colleges. Detective inspector Tony Neale said the enquiries would focus on grant...
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Baroness secures British Council chair
Baroness Kennedy QC has been elected as the first woman to chair the British Council. She was selected from over 100 applicants for the post to take over from Sir Martin Jacomb, who retires in August...
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Prove we are not a 'poor relation', says adviser
An historic peace deal and the long-awaited go-ahead for a new campus promise exciting times for Ulster's higher and futher education. Ulster University is challenging the government to prove that it...
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Easter egg on face
Bradford University's head of publicity wins this week's prize for enthusiasm at work. Having arrived early on Tuesday morning, Sue Coffey was surprised to find that the cleaners were not about....