FE mergers 'no quick fix'
Further education colleges are rushing into mergers seeking a "quick fix" that is not a realistic solution to their problems, according to new government research. The Department for Education and...
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Student places up, says Ucas
The number of applicants accepted on higher education courses is 2.5 per cent up on last year, the Universities and Colleges Admission Service reported this week. About 10,000 students had their...
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Recovering drug addicts offered degree shortcut Glasgow Caledonian University is offering recovering drug addicts the chance to offset formal study in the preliminary stages of a social...
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Town & Gown: Singing the praises of campus and Canaries
Caroline Davis looks at the university city of Norwich There is an old Norfolk saying, "people in Norfolk do things different", and so when the University of East Anglia was established in Norwich 40...
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Europe neglects teaching of ICT
A European investigation of students' information and communications skills has buried the myth that men are more confident than women about using computers. The Survey of European Universities...
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QAA warning over degree shortcuts
Students can gain degrees after completing as little as a third of their courses by paying universities to assess their life experiences and offset them against teaching and assessment. The Quality...
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The pharaohs' digital afterlife
Stephen Quirke's online project will let students hear the words of the ancient Egyptians. The internet - good or bad? Some academics love the cheap instant access to information, opinions and images...
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Think higher to move further
The foundation degree is a hit, writes Henry Seaton, but it is still tainted by the nomenclature of further and higher education. "It'll be alright; don't ask me how; it just will," predict Pinter's...
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How to tame the market without stunting growth
Private universities are a valuable asset to any country if they are regulated appropriately, says Roger King. Governments everywhere regard a robust and growing higher education system as essential...
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Don's diary: Neighbourly interest
Wednesday My work supports that of lawyers defending those on trial for their lives. I research cases, visit clients and interview their families to find evidence, explanation and mitigation. With my...
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Knight has Tories in stitches
Peter Knight, the maverick vice-chancellor of the University of Central England, has invited shadow education secretary Damien Green and his higher education spokesman Tim Boswell to spend a week at...
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Missing UWE already
Managers at the University of the West of England have been consistently ambivalent about the pleasure or otherwise of hosting the Higher Education Funding Council for England on their campus,...
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No vaccination for laziness
A former researcher at Michigan State University has been jailed for ten months and ordered to repay his research grant after he admitted faking the theft of bacteria. Scott Doree was supposed to be...
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A preordained reunion
Julie Watson, principal lecturer in science at the University of Teesside, married one of her former students last weekend. Not only is the former student 16 years her junior, she is also a woman and...
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Why I... believe virtual universities can remove teaching drudgery
It took universities some 200 years to change from medieval theological institutions that explained the world in terms of the Bible to the modern university that explains the world in terms of...