Call to boost pay for postgrad teachers
Universities' growing reliance on unqualified, badly paid postgraduates to teach students is too informal and poorly controlled, according to the Political Studies Association. The association is...
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Students 'suicidal' as debts mount up
Counsellors in further and higher education have reported a significant increase in the number of "seriously disturbed" students, a national survey has found. Nearly one in six students seen by...
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Ailing Scots target health
The eating habits of Scottish women will be among the first areas investigated by Dundee and St Andrews universities' latest health initiative. The Social Dimensions of Health Institute is part of...
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Welsh deal allows the hard-up to feel full benefits of a grant
The Welsh Assembly has struck an agreement with Westminster to save students claiming new grants from losing up to £1,000 in benefits, writes Tony Tysome. The grant, introduced this year, entitles 43...
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Nurse lobby may open door to allies
The Council of Deans of Nursing is consulting on plans to include allied health professionals. The council was set up in 1996 to represent nursing, midwifery and health visiting education. Eileen...
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Review for social work
A review of training for social workers was announced this week by the General Social Care Council. From 2003, the council will register the workforce. It is also reviewing continuous professional...
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Working students suffer
Work experience outside term time is good for graduate employability, but mature and low-income students suffer from taking term-time jobs, according to a study by the Open University's Centre for...
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UK v-c quits Wits
British academic Norma Reid Birley this week resigned as vice-chancellor of the University of the Wi****ersrand in South Africa and is to leave her post with immediate effect. Council chair Justice...
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QMUC's new campus
Queen Margaret University College is to build a campus in Edinburgh's green belt, the first entirely new higher education campus development in Scotland for 30 years. QMUC has aimed for some time to...
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Awards arouse interest
More than 200 institutions have confirmed that they will take part in the International Student Awards, the British Council's awards scheme for international students who are making the most of their...
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Analysis: Military redeploys intellectual might
Martin Ince reports on the armed forces' drive to enlist more university services A major institution of higher education that decided to abandon undergraduate teaching would normally expect a tirade...
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EU moves to close gender gap
The European Commission has asked universities to do more to increase the number of female mathematics, science and technology graduates by 2010. In a communication listing five benchmarks for...
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Academic held in Indonesia gets partial reprieve
Indonesia's public prosecutor has dropped the charge of possessing military secrets against academic Lesley McCulloch despite opposition from the army. But her trial on a lesser visa violation charge...
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Doors opened to gai Paris
Foreign students travelling to study in Paris next autumn will find a coordinated support system to help them through the maze of red tape, to look for accommodation and to discover the social and...
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An army of pacifists
Russian universities are producing an "army of the unemployed", according to education minister Vladimir Fillipov. In an interview in the journal Itogi , he says that the number of graduates far...