Welsh refuse to rule out top-ups
The Labour-controlled Welsh Assembly may abandon its opposition to top-up fees even if it gets devolved powers over student funding as expected. The admission came after the Liberal Democrats...
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Media chiefs alarmed by cuts
Leading lights of the UK's film, broadcasting and publishing industries warn in The THES today that funding council plans to cut teaching support for media studies courses will damage one of the...
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Biochemists to benefit
Oxford University this week announced how it will spend its £60 million share of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's £845 million Science Research Investment Fund. Thirty projects will...
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Iraq war 'like a movie'
Television reporters travelling with military units in the Iraq war were unable to show the grim side of the conflict, leaving viewers feeling like they were watching a movie rather than the...
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£1m for skill transfer
The government has announced £1 million of grants to address the shortage of skilled knowledge and technology transfer personnel. Praxis, the training organisation set up by the Cambridge MIT...
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Visa fee 'a deterrent'
The introduction of visa renewal fees of up to £250 for overseas students by the Home Office "contradicts the government's efforts to attract more bright young people from other continents to study...
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ELWa readvertises post
ELWa, the National Council for Education and Learning in Wales, has readvertised for a new chief executive. The council received 55 applications for the £100,000-a-year post but the recruitment panel...
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Celtic research prize
Paul Russell, visiting lecturer in Celtic at Oxford University and head of classics at Radley College, has been awarded the £15,000 Legonna Celtic research prize by the National Library of Wales for...
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Apprentice success
Archie Henderson, 19, the only Scottish modern apprentice working in numismatics - the study of coins - has won the scheme's outstanding achievement award and continuing personal development award.
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Research prepares to feel the pinch
Research chiefs are bracing themselves for a spending squeeze as the Treasury tightens its belt. The councils are working on their joint bid for the spending review 2004 but the forecast from the...
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UK universities 'too poor' to secure framework funding
Martin Ince British universities are too poorly funded to take advantage of the €17.5 billion (£12 billion) on offer under the European Union Framework 6 programme, the government has admitted. The...
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British group to fight EU red tape
Key UK research organisations have joined forces to fight what they regard as damaging European science policy and red tape, writes Anna Fazackerley. The first meeting of the European Liaison Group,...
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Academy 'misled' minister
The British Academy was this week accused of misleading higher education minister Alan Johnson as The THES revealed new material on the society's handling of its £2 million centenary research...
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Foundation degree is in disarray says CIHE
The government's foundation degree policy is in trouble, with universities eyeing up the qualifications as a way of getting "bums on seats", the Council for Industry and Higher Education has warned,...
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Rector attacks new university criteria
The rector of the London Institute has criticised proposed new criteria for awarding university status, shortly after winning the status for his institution under the old criteria. The institute,...