Devolution's next urgent task
Scotland has still to tackle proper funding for higher education, argues David Caldwell Scotland votes on Thursday to elect a new parliament. The first four years of devolution have produced some...
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Relax - and learn from the neck down
Don't scoff, body awareness exercises really can ease the panic and release creativity, says Marilyn Higgins. Our education system focuses on the neck up - it ignores 90 per cent of our bodies. But...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: James Flannery Age: 35 Job: Lecturer in fire safety and technology at the University of Central Lancashire. Salary:...
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Merger talks go ahead
Plans to create the largest university in Wales and one of the biggest in the UK have taken a step forward. The governing boards of the University of Glamorgan and the University of Wales Institute...
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Ucas Extra sparks rise in mid-year applications
More people are applying to university thanks in part to a service that matches candidates with available places before clearing begins. The number of applications up to March 24 is 3.6 per cent...
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£3.4bn NHS education budget threatened
A £3.4 billion annual budget that covers all health education bar undergraduate medical education is under threat. Workforce development confederations, which manage the multiprofessional education...
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Thames gets all-clear
Thames Valley University has received a clean bill of health from the standards watchdog. The Quality Assurance Agency, which identified Thames as failing in 1999, endorsed academic quality and...
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Enterprising Middlesex
Middlesex University won the Queen's award for enterprise this week, in recognition of its recruitment of a high number of overseas students. It boosted overseas student numbers by 43 per cent...
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Staffs scoops £450k
Staffordshire University has won £450,000 funding that will make the region a centre of excellence for advanced mobile-phone technologies. The regional development agency cash will fund research and...
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Arts centre first
The "world's first" Centre for Applied Arts Research has been launched at University College Northampton. The centre has been set up to offer practical arts-based collaborative projects that can be...
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'We don't have a deficit - the university won't allow that'
Contrary to the bleak national trend, admissions to study chemistry were up this year at the University of Exeter. But Tony Legon, head of the 4-rated department, said it was still a struggle to...
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Axe now hangs over chemistry at Kent
The chemistry degree programme at the University of Kent at Canterbury is the latest to face closure. This follows the news two weeks ago that King's College London may shut its acclaimed chemistry...
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UK aids search for mass graves
Scientists from two British universities are spearheading a search to locate some of the largest mass graves left behind following the Balkan conflicts. State-of-the-art equipment is being used by...
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Research council unveils relocation and rebuilding plans
The Medical Research Council is consulting on plans to move a large proportion of its research activity to Cambridge, writes Anna Fazackerley. The council has published a long-term investment...
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Research cash loss to cripple dancing
The flourishing development of British dance artistry and scholarship is in danger of being hobbled by the higher education white paper, the discipline's representative body has warned. Since the...