Adult learners drop to lowest level under Labour
The proportion of adults in learning has dropped to its lowest level since before the government came to power, a national survey has found, writes Tony Tysome. Some 19 per cent of adults said they...
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Poetry to Oxford ears
Acclaimed literary critic Christopher Ricks has been elected the next professor of poetry at Oxford University. The professor of humanities at Boston University received 214 out of 531 votes from...
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New data access law
Details of admissions verdicts, budget decisions and marking schemes - but not exam scripts - will have to be released by universities under the Freedom of Information Act from January 1 2005....
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Student hardship study
More than a third of student midwives are being forced to work up to 20 hours a week to pay their way through a course, according to the Royal College of Midwives. The RCM student hardship survey,...
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Essex set to go Olympic
Athletes may train at Essex University if London is picked as host city for the 2012 Olympic Games. The university hopes that if the International Olympic Committee chooses London, its Wivenhoe Park...
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Cancer research boost
Glasgow University and Cancer Research UK have won planning permission for a £14 million centre for cancer research. The site, expected to be completed by 2006, will house up to 240 researchers....
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Boys shunning HE
The number of 11 to 16-year-old boys who want to go to university has dropped from 70 per cent to 66 per cent in the last year. according to a Mori poll for the Sutton Trust. One-third of those...
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Ethnic increase
The proportion of students from ethnic minority backgrounds entering higher education rose between 2001-02 and 2002-03, figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show. The percentage of non...
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Foundation degrees lack awarding body
Exam board Edexcel may not be able to deliver its flagship "suite" of new foundation degrees because of quality assurance rules. Edexcel announced almost 100 BTec foundation degrees in February with...
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Doubt over expansion strategy
New government figures show that foundation degrees are failing to attract more full-time students into higher education, it was claimed this week. The figures suggest that rather than attracting...
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Artist's £75,000 chance
Self-taught Fife artist Jack Vettriano is funding a scholarship to let a disadvantaged student attend St Andrews University. The artist, whose most famous work, The Singing Butler , sold for...
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St Paul's defiled by drunks and tourists
It was St Paul's Cathedral's lowest ebb. Schoolchildren smashed windows, drunks defecated on the floor and tourists climbed the crumbling spire to drop stones on to people below. Even some of the...
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Peers seek to secure future
Peers could force a new clause into the higher education bill to ensure that no future government could claw back extra top-up fee income by cutting public funding for universities. A widely...
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York's plan to expand will create 2,000 jobs
York University is planning to double in size over the next decade in a move expected to create about 2,000 jobs, including 1,000 academic positions. The university plans to introduce a range of new...
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Be-spoke travel
William Hoedeman and Claire McNamara are among the 350 members of staff and students at York University who can now borrow a bicycle to commute between King's Manor in the city centre and the...