SA shakes up further education
The number of further education colleges in South Africa is to be slashed from 152 to 50 through mergers that must take place within the next 18 months and are aimed at improving the sector's...
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Help train if you gain
Employers should help fund the universities that educate their workforce, says Muriel Egerton. The current student funding system derives from the replacement of the Robbins system of subsidised...
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The macho world of academia
Are women in universities being sidelined by the 'new academic order'? asks Richard Collier. In today's marketised world, university education is seen as an industry, increasingly preoccupied with...
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Why I think the popular view of Indian history needs challenging
In the series that I am presenting on Channel 4, An Indian Affair , I look at the relationship between Britain and India, beginning with the East India Company and Robert Clive and finishing with the...
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Agony aunt
Q. What do students do on the web? And if it is what I think it is, should I stop it - or join in? A. Like any learning environment, the worldwide web offers a feast of enriching educational...
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Having the backup when the heat is on
A fire ravaged the informatics department at City University in May, but Anne McHardy found high and low-tech procedures saved vital programs. Two days after a fire destroyed a third of City...
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The burden of proof
As British blood donations are banned by anxious countries, a team believes it may have found a simple test for vCJD. Emma Baines reports Last year, when the European authorities were advised by...
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Europe promises a whiff of freedom
The EU's Framework 6 will give more autonomy to managers of research projects and harmonise intellectual property rules, Keith Nuthall reports The European Commission has proposed the detailed formal...
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Mimic packs armful of tricks
Eat your heart out, Rory Bremner. Scientists have discovered an Indonesian octopus that can alter the shape and colour of its body to mimic at least three different creatures. While other species...
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Air takes heat for the climate
The atmosphere is the great leveller when it comes to determining global climate. Scientists have found that it plays a much greater role in redistributing heat from the tropics to the poles than do...
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Latest international news
Chile ups spending to boost standards Chilean education minister Mariana Aylwin has announced a special government contribution of 31,000 billion pesos (£30 million) to help raise flagging higher...
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Latest UK news
£28m PPP builds two FE colleges in NI Sean Farren, Northern Ireland’s minister for employment and learning, has launched a £28 million public-private partnership for new buildings for further...
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From today's UK papers
The Guardian The chief executive of one of the UK's main exam boards quit yesterday after accusations of marking blunders. Christina Townsend left Edexcel following what she described in her...
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APPOINTMENTS Royal Northern College of Music The following have been appointed: Melinda Maxwell , director of woodwind studies; Linda Merrick , director of performance studies and senior tutor in...
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Funding boss to sideline RAE results
Researchers who improve their standing in the current research assessment exercise will receive no reward next year. And those who slip a grade will not be penalised. Sir Howard Newby, who took over...