Green research push
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is awarding almost £23 million to universities for research into greener urban living. The council is keen to fund major consortia involving...
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Science centre launch
A network of science learning centres has been announced by the Department for Education and Science and the Wellcome Trust. They will offer courses and facilities to school teachers and other...
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Foundation expertise
Foundation Degree Forward is to conduct a survey of further education colleges to find out how many want an independent validation service for foundation degrees. FDF's management board, which met...
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£17m aerospace award
Cambridge, Cranfield, Durham, Loughborough, Nottingham and Oxford universities, Imperial College London and Queen's University Belfast are to share £17.3 million in government funding for civil...
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Health academics voice fears over NHSU takeover
Health academics are worried that the National Health Service University could drive them out of higher education. Delegates at a health educators' conference hosted by lecturers' union Natfhe...
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Medicine falls down on access initiatives
Medical students warned the government last week that it was not doing enough to widen participation in medicine, and suggested that top-up fees would make the situation worse, writes Anna...
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Student scriptwriters launch online soap with audience input
If the trials and tribulations of TV soap-opera characters such as Dirty Den or Ken Barlow make you wish you could rewrite the plot, students at De Montfort University may have the answer. Students...
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Mentors count personal costs
Students who mentor disadvantaged young people frequently suffer demoralisation, loss of confidence and feelings of personal failure as a result, research shows. Mentoring is promoted in many of the...
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ITN deal offers archive access
Researchers are to get access to more than 100 years of filmed news coverage thanks to a £10 million deal with ITN. The deal, brokered by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the British...
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DMU gains ear of the Sorbonne
Musicians at De Montfort University are jubilant after signing a research and academic exchange agreement with the Sorbonne in Paris, writes Tony Tysome. The link will bring together the prestigious...
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Merger 'benefits' pose threat to diversity
Valuable characteristics of small and specialist higher education colleges will be lost if such institutions are forced into mergers, a report warns. The 39 higher education institutions in the UK...
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Top-ups will pit costly science against the rest
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why The competition created by the white paper...
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Prospect of English fees spreads fear of hardship
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why Scotland The Scots are afraid of the impact that...
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Vice-chancellors see a pay-your-way future as desirable, but students' opposition remains strong
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why Bernadette Porter, rector of the University of...
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Pay-your-way future: Exeter
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why Exeter University vice-chancellor Steve Smith is...