College lecturers get new union
Breakaway college lecturers are setting up a new trade union following the failure of the Colleges Legal Fund to bring a test case to court to establish the illegality of new further education...
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Down the mine
The University of Exeter's Camborne school of mines is hoping to attract more students thanks to a Government-backed campaign aimed at addressing a shortage of mining engineers. The college has its...
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Funding deal likely for research centres
A funding deal for eight interdisciplinary research centres allied to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is close to being finalised following a meeting between centre directors...
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Direct entry hits shrinking college rolls
Colleges recruiting degree and sub-degree students are finding competition from universities particularly damaging this year, writes Alison Utley. Initial reports indicate that numbers are down in...
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One-off boost for east European studies
East European and former Soviet Union studies is to receive a long-awaited boost with the creation of 33 specially-funded specialist posts, writes Huw Richards. The Pounds 825,000 programme will be...
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Armagh books
Queen's University, Belfast, this week held the first lectures at its new campus in Armagh, where more than 100 students are to be based. There are also plans for a site in Omagh.
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Natfhe aims for local victories
Natfhe, the university and college lecturers' union, is to shift all its further education resources into fighting local disputes, including those over pay, because of the stalemate in national...
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Carry on assessing . . .
While some observers are predicting that next year's research assessment exercise will be the last, the man most likely to have the Government's ear on the subject does not agree. "I would bet a...
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The battle's won
Newbattle Abbey College, Scotland's sole adult residential college whose core funding was axed by Government in 1989, is this week relaunching two full-time diploma courses. It has survived for the...
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Internet news
THESIS THESIS, The THES Internet Service provides details of the contents of this week's newspaper including news, features, books and, this week, the Synthesis guide to trends in higher education....
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Self-control of quality assurance assured
The three-year battle for control of the quality assurance process has been won by the universities. Their victory over the Higher Education Funding Council for England was confirmed last week when...
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German award
The President of the German Federal Republic, Roman Herzog, has awarded the Commander's Cross of the German Order of Merit to Lord Bullock, Founding Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford, and the...
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Lost tongues
Fewer British students are signing up for foreign language degrees at university, according to figures from Surrey University. Statistics from UCAS, the applications body, show that last year only 2,...
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Taylor made
Science minister Ian Taylor launched a Pounds 40 million competition aimed at supporting priorities identified by the Technology Foresight initiative this week. Outline bids for research funding...
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Labour think tank calls for ministry of research
Big cuts in Britain's military research and development spending, no further moves to privatise public sector research laboratories and the creation of a ministry for research are among the key...